Some non-elderly single people queuing for public housing have accused the authorities of discriminating against them when it comes to allocating flats. Currently, these single people are in a queue separate from family or elderly applicants, with t...

Top microbiologist Yuen Kwok-yung has warned that Hong Kong was not out of the woods yet despite going another day without any local infection, as he urged the public achieve a vaccination rate of more than 90 percent for social distancing measures t...

Hong Kong badminton player Angus Ng said on Sunday he hopes people can focus on the performance of athletes rather than what they wear, after he came under attack for the black shirt he put on at the Tokyo Olympics. Ng, the top men's player from the...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan said on Sunday there must be "substantial" progress in tackling Hong Kong's housing problems if the SAR is to get rid of subdivided flats by 2049. He made the comments on his weekly blog, responding to remarks by a sen...

A prisoners' rights advocate is calling on prison authorities to improve arrangements for prisoners in solitary confinement. Richard Tsoi, from the Society for Community Organisation (Soco), said such prisoners usually face greater stress and they ...

Customs officers on Sunday said they had made three major drug busts this month - seizing 145 kilos of liquid meth, 72 kilos of cocaine and 61 kilos of heroin with a total street value of about HK$230 million. Four men and a woman, aged between 31 a...

Police say a taxi ran out of control in Yau Tong at about 1 am on Sunday, crashing into some railings. The driver, who passed a breathalyser test, was sent to Queen Elizabeth Hospital with minor injuries. There were no passengers in the taxi. T...

The Observatory has issued the Amber Rainstorm Warning Signal, which means it expects more than 30 millimetres of rain an hour in the SAR. It warned of flooding in low lying and poorly drained areas, and warned members of the public who were likely ...

The Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office said on Saturday seven American citizens and entities that are being sanctioned by Beijing are getting the punishment they deserve. In the first sanctions imposed under China's new anti-foreign sanction law, u...

Health authorities reported two new Covid-19 cases on Saturday, both of which were imported. The patients involved a 36-year-old man who came from the United Arab Emirates and a 26-year-old woman from the United States. Both were asymptomatic and...

Hong Kong athletes are making progress in their fight for gold on the first day of the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday. In fencing, former world number one Vivian Kong was the first Hong Kong fencer to reach an Olympics fencing quarter-final, but lost t...

Secretary for the Civil Service Patrick Nip said on Saturday that authorities will launch a scheme by this month to make it easier for the elderly to get vaccinated, amidst a low inoculation rate for the age group. Speaking on an RTHK progamme, Nip ...

China said on Friday that it's imposed counter-sanctions on US individuals including former US commerce secretary Wilbur Ross in response to recent US sanctions on Chinese officials in Hong Kong. The sanctions are the first imposed by China under it...

Eleven people have been acquitted of illegal assembly at the Tai Po Market MTR station two years ago, after a magistrate said surveillance footage submitted by prosecutors as evidence wasn’t clear enough to identify the defendants. The West Kowlo...

The Centre for Health Protection on Friday reported two imported Covid cases. One of the patients, a 36-year-old woman, flew in from the United Arab Emirates and tested positive for the virus while undergoing quarantine at a hotel in Chek Lap Kok. ...

Exam authorities have published a sample paper for the revamped liberal studies subject, with an apparent emphasis on national security as well as the city’s integration with the mainland. The government announced in May that liberal studies will...

Ten pro-democracy figures, including former lawmakers Albert Ho, Chu Hoi-dick and Andrew Wan, have indicated they will plead guilty to charges related to a June 4 vigil in Victoria Park last year, while two others say they will deny the accusations a...

A national security judge on Friday remanded two people in custody after they were brought to court over allegedly seditious children's books featuring talking sheep. Lai Man-ling, 25, chairwoman of the General Union of Hong Kong Speech Therapists, ...

Hong Kong was blanketed in smog on Friday, with air pollution reaching “serious” levels as a tropical cyclone approached the mainland’s east coast. The Air Quality Health Index (AQHI) at the city’s 15 general and 3 roadside stations all indi...

Police said on Friday that they had smashed a drug trafficking syndicate that relied on self-storage facilities and couriers to store and transport drugs, seizing illegal drugs worth more than HK$78 million. The force said four men who were arrested...