Hong Kong reported no new Covid-19 infections on Saturday – the sixth time this month. All 28 cases reported in the past fortnight were imported, and health officials also said there were fewer than five preliminary positive cases for the day. ...

Local suicide-prevention group, Samaritan Befrienders Hong Kong, on Saturday reported 438 suicides among people aged 60 or more in the past year, the highest number recorded since 1973. Clarence Tsang, the group’s executive director, said the coro...

State media on Saturday launched an attack on the Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union, describing the pro-democracy group as a tumour that must be rooted out. In an article, the People's Daily said the union has stood against education and profe...

Health officials on Friday reported two imported Covid infections that involve patients who had been fully vaccinated. The Centre for Health Protection said the two men, arriving from Switzerland and the United States, had received both doses of the...

Security Secretary Chris Tang on Friday called on former Apple Daily workers to inform the authorities if they saw any national security breaches or other illegal acts during their time with the newspaper, suggesting the media outlet hadn't treated i...

Police say they have arrested a 40-year-old man on suspicion of insulting the national anthem as crowds of people gathered in a shopping mall to watch an Olympic broadcast. Officers alleged that the suspect, who told them he was a journalist, waved...

The official in charge of Hong Kong's sports development on Friday appealed to the public to let the controversy surrounding athletes' jerseys go, and focus on their performances instead. The Sports Commissioner, Yeung Tak-keung, was speaking in To...

Property developers on Friday dangled the prospect of another flat giveaway in a bid to boost the city’s vaccination rate. Sino Group's Ng Teng Fong Charitable Foundation and Chinese Estates Holdings are already offering a one-bedroom flat worth H...

Former waiter Tong Ying-kit was jailed for nine years on Friday, three days after the High Court ruled that he was a terrorist who had incited fellow Hongkongers to split the city from the rest of China. Following a 15-day trial without a jury, thre...

Cheers, applause and even a few tears broke out around Hong Kong shopping malls once again on Friday as swimmer Siobhan Haughey won another silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics. Expectations were high for the Hong Kong athlete ahead of the 100 metre ...

A lot more taxis are accepting digital payments in the hope of gaining more business when the government starts handing out electronic spending vouchers on August 1, a taxi association representative says. On an RTHK programme, the chairman of the ...

A former coach of Siobhan Haughey says the Hong Kong swimming star's mental toughness has helped her become the best swimmer in the territory's history, describing her strength as "a special gift from God". After becoming the first Hong Kong athlete...

Police have told RTHK that they've launched an investigation into the booing of the national anthem during an Olympic broadcast at a Kwun Tong shopping mall. Large numbers of fans gathered at the APM Mall in Kwun Tong on Monday night to see fencer C...

Police said on Thursday they have arrested two men over an alleged boycott campaign targeting a local media company, but refused to confirm reports from TVB that the case involves the station. The force alleged the two men – aged 18 and 26 – wer...

The Professional Teachers' Union (PTU) has become the latest group to withdraw from the alliance that used to organise Hong Kong's June 4 candlelight vigils. The Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China has for months been acc...

Prosecutors on Thursday alleged that pro-democracy activist Tam Tak-chi used popular slogans of the 2019 protests – such as "liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times" and "five demands, not one less" – to incite hatred and contempt of the cent...

DAB leader Starry Lee says a member of her party was justified in questioning the patriotism of a member of Hong Kong's Olympic team who wore a black T-shirt in Tokyo at the weekend, adding that a professional athlete would not have been affected by ...

There were queues outside some of Hong Kong’s Covid vaccination centres early on Thursday morning, as elderly people lined up to take advantage of a new walk-in scheme aimed at boosting vaccination rates. People aged 70 and over are now able to re...

A Baptist University’s adjunct professor in business said on Thursday that it was appropriate for the government to invoke rarely-used powers under the Companies Ordinance to investigate Next Digital, saying a lot of questions surrounding the finan...

The defence lawyer for the first Hongkonger found guilty under the national security law has told the High Court that the only effect his client's stunt had on the general public was to make them applaud him in support. Former waiter Tong Ying-kit, ...