Police on Sunday arrested two men, aged 24 and 33, and seized methamphetamine worth more than HK$5.5 million that was disguised as liquid ice packs. Police made the arrests in To Kwa Wan as the two men attempted to transport five styrofoam boxes, t...

The Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs, Erick Tsang, said on Sunday that the more than 50 pan-democrats arrested last week on suspicion of subversion had to pay the price for "crossing the red-line". He told the state-owned China New...

Financial secretary Paul Chan said on Sunday he will have to keep some firepower in reserve to tackle any uncertainties Hong Kong may face in the coming year, amid calls for sweeteners in his upcoming budget. On his official blog, Chan wrote that he...

Clients of a shuttered law firm are demanding help from the government, saying they've suffered losses totalling HK$100 million after the Law Society froze the firm's accounts. In a rare intervention on December 24, the Law Society stepped in to sus...

The Hong Kong government on Sunday accused foreign governments of making "slandering" remarks about the National Security Law, which it said was equal – if not better than – similar national security laws in other jurisdictions. The SAR governme...

Trains weren’t running between Hung Hom and Mong Kok East stations on Sunday, in the first of ten planned suspensions by the MTR this year, with the railway operator saying most passengers had switched to using other routes. The MTR announced in D...

Liberal Party lawmaker Tommy Cheung has blamed Hong Kong's acute shortage of doctors on what he calls the "protectionist attitude" of local doctors and the Medical Council. Speaking on RTHK's Letter to Hong Kong, Cheung, who's also an executive coun...

A jury on Saturday returned an open verdict in the death of university student Chow Tsz-lok, following almost two days of deliberation. The five-member jury, consisting of two men and three women, told the Coroner's Court that they were unable to d...

Health officials on Saturday reported 59 new coronavirus cases, the highest total in more than a week. Fifty-three of the infections are locally acquired and twenty have no clear source. Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan of the Centre for Health Protection sai...

The MTR Corporation says it will closely monitor traffic conditions on Sunday as it suspends East Rail services between Mong Kok East and Hung Hom stations. The closure is the first of ten this year to allow for work to connect the East Rail Line ...

Police said on Saturday they’ve arrested 13 people in connection with a fatal knife attack of a man in a stone factory in Fanling last month. Officers said a gang of four men attacked the victim with meat cleavers at Wo Hop Shek Tsuen before flee...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan says he expects the SAR's economy to return to growth in the second half of this year, but he also cautioned against expectations of big handouts in his budget. Chan attended an RTHK programme on Saturday to gauge publ...

The government says experts are to study whether people who are vaccinated against Covid-19 could be spared some anti-epidemic rules, including quarantine requirements. The Secretary for Civil Service, Patrick Nip, one of the officials in charge of ...

The Democratic Party on Friday vowed it would not be cowed into submission by the arrest this week of seven high-profile members, saying the crackdown will not affect its political stance. Former lawmakers James To, Wu Chi-wai, Andrew Wan, Lam Cheuk...

The SAR government announced on Friday that it has decided to call off the Lunar New Year fairs planned across Hong Kong next month, citing the latest situation with the pandemic. The authorities earlier said that they were planning scaled-down fai...

Health officials said a rebound in the number of Covid-19 cases shows there's still silent transmission in the community. Since hitting a near seven-week low of 25 cases on Wednesday, the number of infections has been heading north. It reached 45 on...

The government on Friday said it will bring in new offences to criminalise voyeurism and photography of people's intimate parts without consent, such as upskirt photos, after receiving around 200 written submissions in a three-month public consultati...

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...