Members of the League of Social Democrats have vowed to continue to campaign for social justice, on the eve of a meeting by the Civil Human Rights Front that would reportedly decide on disbanding the group. The league, one of the front's member grou...

Elections will likely not be needed for the majority of seats on the Election Committee, with the number of names put forward roughly matching the places available as the nomination period comes to an end. Of the 1,500 seats on the body, 982 were or...

Health authorities on Thursday reported five imported coronavirus cases, four of them involving the mutant L452R strain. Those who tested positive for the mutant strain are two people from Switzerland who were being quarantined in a Tsim Sha Tsui ho...

Liberal Party leader Felix Chung on Thursday dismissed suggestions that foreign businesses will leave Hong Kong when the SAR adopts the mainland's anti-sanctions law. On a radio programme, Chung called the anti-sanctions law a “weapon” that will...

An infectious disease specialist said on Thursday that a man who was mistakenly given two Covid-19 jabs on the same day might experience more side effects than usual, but his condition should not be too worrying. The Department of Health said the ma...

The head of a vaccination centre said on Thursday he hopes more people would be allowed to take advantage of a scheme offering Covid jabs without a booking. Samuel Kwok, the medical director of the clinic at Kwun Chung Sports Centre in Jordan, said ...

More than a thousand University of Hong Kong (HKU) graduates have signed a petition demanding the university revoke a ban on students who attended a controversial meeting of the students’ union from entering the campus. The university’s governin...

Exhibitors at the Food Expo said on Wednesday that they will adapt to a ban on sample tastings at this year’s event, but are expecting sales to suffer. The Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) announced the restriction last week that bans e...

State media has renewed its attack on the largest teacher's union in Hong Kong – a day after it announced it was disbanding following accusations that it had “poisoned” children and incited them to violence. Xinhua News Agency said in a comme...

The police on Wednesday confirmed they had arrested a former employee of a school in Tsim Sha Tsui suspected of embezzling almost HK$600,000 in school funds. The force said it received a report from the school on July 15 about HK$599,000 being stole...

Health officials on Wednesday reported one new imported Covid-19 case. The 27-year-old woman flew in from Bangladesh, and authorities said she did not display any symptoms. There were no new local cases for the day. The Centre for Health Protec...

More public hospitals are pitching in to help assess if people with allergies can get Covid-19 vaccines, after a clinic run by the Hospital Authority's Hong Kong West Cluster was swamped with cases. The Vaccine Allergy Safety Clinic at Grantham Hosp...

A veteran pro-Beijing educator says he believes the demise of the Professional Teachers’ Union (PTU) will do more good than harm to the education sector. Wong Kwan-yu, head of the Federation of Education Workers, said the PTU had in the past done...

The chairman of the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA), Ronson Chan, said on Wednesday he's concerned that his group could be next after the pro-democracy Professional Teachers' Union decided to disband a day earlier. But both the HKJA and the...

Commerce chief Edward Yau on Wednesday said the mainland's anti-sanctions law, when adopted by the SAR, can help safeguard the interests of companies operating in Hong Kong. The secretary for commerce and economic development was speaking a day afte...

Some elderly people who lined up for a same-day ticket to get vaccinated said they were happy to be included in the expanded government walk-in programme. Queues were seen outside some centres on Wednesday morning as people who are 60 or older – i...

The chairman of the Sports Institute, Lam Tai-fai, has expressed reservations about expanding the elite training system to cover more sports, saying this could affect the quality of top-notch athletes. Following Hong Kong’s best ever performance ...

Members of the education profession expressed shock over the disbandment of the Professional Teachers' Union on Tuesday, with some saying they're worried no unions would voice out for them anymore. After the union's announcement, crowds flocked to t...

An ecology expert is urging people not to touch black sand on Lung Mei Beach in Tai Po, saying it could contain harmful bacteria. Billy Hau, a principal lecturer from Hong Kong University's school of biological sciences, made the call after environ...

The Professional Teachers’ Union (PTU) announced on Tuesday that it is disbanding, around a week after the government severed ties with the body as it came under attack by state media. In a letter to its members, the union described the decision ...