Three people were jailed for up to five and a half years on Friday for rioting at the airport and assaulting a mainland journalist, with the prison terms the longest so far in relation to Hong Kong's recent unrest. The District Court earlier found A...

The husband of Justice Secretary Teresa Cheng has lost an appeal at the High Court over the HK$20,000 fine he was given for an illegal swimming pool he had built at his luxury home in Tuen Mun. Otto Poon was found guilty at West Kowloon Magistracy ...

A pollster who was commissioned to run the pan-democratic camp's primary elections for the now-postponed Legco elections said he would continue his work despite this week's mass arrests of those linked to the exercise. A defiant Chung Kim-wah, deput...

The jury looking into the death of university student Chow Tsz-lok during the anti-government protests in 2019 retired on Friday morning after being told by the coroner that they could return one of three verdicts. The five-member jury could rule th...

An adviser on the government's anti-pandemic efforts said on Friday that he is encouraged by the latest trial results for the Covid-19 vaccine made by China's Sinovac, but SAR officials need more information before clearing it for use in Hong Kong. ...

Former Democratic Party chairman and lawmaker Wu Chi-wai was remanded in custody on Friday, with a court revoking his bail over a protest-related case. Wu and seven other pro-democracy activists were granted bail last month after they were charged w...

Police said on Friday morning that none of the 55 pro-democracy figures arrested this week under the national security law have been charged with an offence, and all but three have now been released on bail. There was no bail for Joshua Wong and Tam...

About 100 officers from the disciplined services will join a contact-tracing team and help track down people who came into contact with Covid patients, health officials said on Thursday. Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan of the Centre for Health Protection said ...

Former Democratic Party chairman Wu Chi-Wai appeared in court on Thursday, accused of violating bail conditions in relation to a BN(O) passport he allegedly holds. Wu and seven other pro-democracy activists were granted bail last month after they we...

State-run tabloid Global Times was on Thursday quick to mock the siege of the US Capitol, quoting mainland internet users as describing Trump supporters' invasion of the building as “karma”, “retribution” and “deserving”. An article, pu...

Jailed activist Joshua Wong was taken to the Lai Chi Lok Reception Centre for questioning on Thursday after being arrested under the national security law, a post on his Facebook account said. Wong, 24, is believed to be suspected of subversion, alo...

The national security case involving teenage activist Tony Chung will next be heard at the District Court at the end of the month during which he's expected to enter a plea. The 19-year-old attended a brief hearing at the West Kowloon Court on Thurs...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says Washington is considering slapping sanctions on those involved in the mass arrest of pro-democracy figures in Hong Kong on Wednesday, saying it won't stand idly by while the people of the SAR "suffer under Commu...

Jurors probing the death of university student Chow Tsz-lok during the anti-government protests in 2019 were told by the coroner on Thursday to make their judgement based on the evidence presented in court, not personal views. Giving instructions t...

Thousands of beauty parlour operators and their staff staged an online protest on Thursday, demanding that the government let them resume work. Beauty parlours were among various businesses forced to close again last month, amid another wave of cor...

Roundtable lawmaker Michael Tien has urged the authorities to provide a better explanation for their arrest of 53 pro-democracy figures on Wednesday, saying he can't see how the group could have violated the national security law just by holding prim...

Two top pro-establishment figures are at odds on whether pro-democracy figures have violated the national security law by organising and joining a primary vote last year for the now-postponed Legislative Council elections – specifically if what the...

The police are investigating a murder and person fell from height case in Yau Ma Tei on Wednesday in which a 34-year-old mainland woman and her 5-month-old daughter died. At 4:50 pm, the police received a report from a security guard that the two pe...

Outgoing Chief Justice Geoffrey Ma delivered a robust defence of the importance of Hong Kong’s independent judiciary and stressed that human rights are a fundamental feature of the Basic Law, in a farewell sitting at the Court of Final Appeal on We...

The EU called on Wednesday for the release of the dozens of opposition figures arrested in Hong Kong and said it was eyeing possible further sanctions on China over its crackdown. "We are currently analysing the situation to see how we might need to...