Seven students have scored the highest grades in this year's university entrance exams, with one of them coming from a regular secondary in Tuen Mun, rather than one of the city's elite schools. Ian Chiu said he was surprised to have become the firs...

Health officials reported five imported Covid infections on Wednesday, including two children whose preliminary positive results had prompted an overnight lockdown of a block in Taikoo Shing. The Department of Health said the siblings, an 11-year-ol...

Legislators on Wednesday accused the Hospital Authority (HA) of supporting "rioters" by failing to make public people's medical records to help dispel "rumours" in society. Councillors urged the government to tell the HA to start disclosing patients...

A company manager has been jailed for three years and nine months for rioting and assaulting a police officer with a mooncake tin. During the seven-minute riot two years ago, Lau Yuen-ling, 47, was also seen throwing an umbrella inside Sha Tin MTR S...

The police confirmed on Wednesday that officers from its national security department have arrested another former member of the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper’s senior staff. The force said they had arrested the 51-year-old man, a former edito...

Top microbiologist Ho Pak-leung on Wednesday urged the authorities to stop exempting foreign consular officers from quarantine if they come back from high-risk places for Covid-19. Ho made the call after the son and daughter of the Saudi Arabian co...

No new cases of Covid-19 have been found so far at the two residential buildings locked down overnight. Health authorities had tested 400 residents at a block in Taikoo and another 95 at a building in Wanchai. Authorities acted after a confirmed ca...

Police have charged a 39-year-old man with manslaughter after a man died on Tuesday evening following an apparent a fight in Sham Shui Po in the early hours of Monday. The 54-year-old alleged victim had been sent unconscious to Princess Margaret Ho...

Two residential buildings – in Taikoo Shing and Wan Chai – were put on lockdown by health authorities on Tuesday evening after three positive or preliminary positive Covid-19 cases were detected involving people arriving from overseas. Two of th...

Authorities on Tuesday found the body of a man, who's believed to have been washed away by floods while hiking in Ma On Shan earlier in the day. At the time, the Strong Wind Signal No. 3 was in force. Police received a report at 10:46 am that a 60-y...

Lawyers for the defence in the case of national security suspect Tong Ying-kit on Tuesday sought to convince a three-judge panel that the protest slogan “Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Times” was incapable of inciting others to commit sece...

RTHK staff have been banned from using “inappropriate” terms such as “Taiwan’s president” or “Taiwan government” in all radio, television and online output, to comply with the one-China principle. In a circular disseminated to all staf...

Prosecutors on Tuesday asked the District Court to assign a designated judge under the national security law to hear a case against internet radio host Edmund Wan, who has been charged with seditious intent. Wan, better known as DJ Giggs, is accused...

Health officials on Tuesday reported seven new Covid infections – all of them imported cases. The five men and two women, aged between 12 and 58, flew in from the US, Japan, France, Iran and Bangladesh. The Centre for Health Protection said six ...

The observatory has on Tuesday lowered this year’s first No 3 typhoon signal to Standby Signal No, 1 as Tropical Storm Cempaka moves further away from Hong Kong. “Cempaka is drifting steadily towards the western coast of Guangdong. According to...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Tuesday dismissed the idea that the popularity of a local TV drama involving a gay romance suggests a growing acceptance of homosexuality in Hong Kong, saying the issue is still "very, very controversial". ViuTV's Ossan...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam says even though she transcends the executive, legislature and judiciary she would still face legal consequences if she carried out criminal acts. Despite this, she says she has come to understand that it would be unconsti...

Epidemiologist Benjamin Cowling said on Tuesday that a more sustainable Covid strategy for Hong Kong would be to “learn to live” with the virus. The University of Hong Kong academic was speaking after the UK lifted pandemic restrictions on Monda...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Tuesday admitted that the territory's district councils are no longer fully functional and representative after more than 200 members resigned, but said it is impossible to hold by-elections anytime soon to fill the vaca...

One of the founders of Occupy Central, Chan Kin-man, has gone to Taiwan to teach for a year. The sociology professor said on Tuesday that he’ll serve as a visiting scholar at Taipei’s National Chengchi University to teach about social movements...