Democratic Party chairman Lo Kin-hei on Sunday announced he will resign as a district councillor, joining more than 150 pro-democracy councillors who have quit in a matter of days. Those who stepped down in the past few days include veteran councill...

The University of Hong Kong has taken down all the posters and banners displayed on the “democracy walls” around campus. That’s according to reports carried by student publications Campus TV and Undergrad on Sunday. Photos published on th...

A union representing employees of social welfare organisations on Sunday said it’s disappointed by the results of a four-year review into the government's funding mechanism, criticising it for not going far enough. The Social Welfare Employees Un...

Police on Sunday warned young people against falling prey to drug traffickers over the summer holiday, after officers arrested a few teenagers in a HK$14 million drug haul. Investigators said they raided a hotel room in Hung Hom on Friday and found...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam has played down the wave of emigration following the enactment of the national security law, saying people who are leaving will eventually realise how good Hong Kong is, adding the administration will recruit talents from t...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Sunday that she does not expect the new Chief Secretary, John Lee, to have to do much besides working on safeguarding national security. Lee, who formerly headed the Security Bureau, was promoted to the number two...

Health authorities on Sunday lifted a lockdown on a Wong Tai Sin residential block after finding no Covid-19 cases there, a day after the discovery of an untraceable preliminary coronavirus case that involves a mutant strain. The preliminary positiv...

Health officials put a residential block in Wong Tai Sin under overnight lockdown on Saturday, after they found an untraceable preliminary positive Covid-19 case that involves a mutant strain. Authorities said the case involves a 50-year-old man wh...

RTHK sources on Saturday said an airport worker had tested preliminary positive for Covid-19. The latest case was identified through mandatory Covid testing at Hong Kong International Airport, after an airline ground staff member was infected two w...

The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China said on Saturday that it was laying off its staff members to "ensure their safety", and that half of its committee members were resigning. The alliance, which organised pa...

The Secretary for Justice, Teresa Cheng, on Saturday criticised a number of unnamed academics and teachers, who she said had misled students about the definition of terrorism, saying they were "disgraceful". Writing on her blog, she said she wanted ...

The Chief Executive, Carrie Lam, said on Saturday that Hong Kong must boldly push ahead with patriotic education. She said youngsters had been misled - and their values must be rectified. Speaking at a forum, the CE said the SAR had lacked patrio...

Police Commissioner Raymond Siu on Saturday said authorities would take action against those who violate the national security law, as he commented on a now-withdrawn motion by University of Hong Kong student leaders, which had expressed sadness at a...

The Chief Secretary John Lee said on Saturday that the three top officials, who violated social distancing rules, had learnt an important lesson. The Director of Immigration, Au Ka-wang; the Commissioner of Customs, Hermes Tang; and the Undersecret...

More and more people in Hong Kong are getting vaccinated, with the daily jab figure hitting just over 70,000. That's nearly 14 percent higher than the seven-day moving average of nearly 61,500, pointing to a surge in interest. Government officials ...

Single-use plastic tableware, such as straws, cutlery and plates, could be phased out in Hong Kong from 2025 under a government's plan aimed at reducing pollution. A green group welcomed the plan outlined by environment officials on Friday, saying p...

An academic from the University of Hong Kong testifying for the defence told the national security trial of Tong Ying-kit on Friday that the slogan “Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Times” means different things to different people, and it d...

Three top Hong Kong officials have apologised for violating social distancing rules, saying they thought a hotpot dinner they attended with several others back in March was exempt from a ban on large gatherings. Director of Immigration Au Ka-wang, C...

Some lawmakers on Friday urged the government to give up plans for a travel bubble with Singapore as the city-state looks to change its strategy against the Covid-19 pandemic. Singapore had recently announced that it planned to relax contact tracing...

The Centre for Health Protection on Friday reported one new imported Covid-19 case. The patient, an 18-year-old man, was undergoing quarantine at a hotel in Sai Ying Pun after flying in from the Netherlands. He did not have any symptoms. Meanwhil...