Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN) said on Thursday it has blocked a website that publishes material mainly on 2019 anti-government protests, to comply with the city's national security law, marking the first censorship of a local website under the l...

RTHK journalist Bao Choy on Thursday pleaded not guilty to two counts of making false statements in relation to car licence plate searches aimed at finding the perpetrators of the Yuen Long gang attack in 2019. Choy, 37, is accused of violating the ...

The bunkering industry has called on the government to relax quarantine measures for incoming vessels and offer a HK$32 million lifeline for the sector hit by the coronavirus pandemic. The trade said sales volume has dropped by 70 percent since the ...

The second of two teenagers brought back to the territory after being detained for months in Shenzhen with a group of 10 other Hongkongers has appeared in court in the SAR and has been remanded in custody. Liu Tsz-man, 18, was taken to the District ...

A 35-year-old man was on Thursday sentenced to seven months in prison over his participation in a lunchtime anti-government protest in Central. Cheung Chin-man earlier pleaded guilty at Eastern Magistracy to assaulting a police officer, and was con...

The authorities have been criticised for their sudden and surprise move to send dozens of residents of a Jordan tenement block into quarantine, with a local councillor saying there should have been better communication with the community. Without ma...

The Consumer Council has found that most disinfectant sprays it tested are not as effective as they claim – and some are completely useless, adding alcohol solution and diluted bleach work much better and cost a lot less. The watchdog said on Thu...

A health expert on Thursday warned that Hong Kong's Covid vaccine rollout next month might be slowed down, if jabs produced by mainland company Sinovac cannot be delivered on time. Leung Pak-yin, who is a member of a special taskforce in charge of ...

A pharmacists' group on Thursday urged the government not to let elderly people in Hong Kong receive coronavirus vaccines developed by mainland company Sinovac, in view of media reports that the jabs were found to be only 50 percent effective during ...

It is understood that national security police arrested 11 people on Thursday morning, with local media reporting that the arrests are related to the 12 Hongkongers who left Hong Kong by boat in August. Democratic Party district councillor and lawy...

The police on Wednesday denied a report that officers have been sending mobile phones and other electronics devices seized from suspects here to authorities across the border to break into them. The Washington Post had reported that mainland authori...

The government has laid out a nine-year-plan to increase the number of statutory holidays from 12 to 17, starting with the addition of Buddha’s Birthday next year. But employee representatives in the Labour Advisory Board have slammed the plan as ...

Health authorities have expressed concern that tightly packed pipes at a tenement block in Jordan might have contributed to the spread of the Covid-19 virus there. One of the 42 new infections reported in Hong Kong on Wednesday was a close contact o...

The Heung Yee Kuk on Wednesday welcomed a Court of Appeal ruling restoring the full rights of male indigenous villagers to build their own three-storey homes under the Small House Policy. The chairman of the rural body, Kenneth Lau, said the governm...

The Privacy Commissioner is calling on WhatsApp to provide more clarity regarding issues surrounding recent changes to its privacy policy, saying its responses so far have left many questions unanswered. By February 8, users of the messaging app ac...

One of the 12 Hongkongers intercepted by the Guangdong coast guard while apparently fleeing to Taiwan in a speedboat has appeared in an SAR court for the first time since his arrest in August, and could be facing more charges related to his ill-fated...

The Court of Appeal on Wednesday restored the full rights of male indigenous villagers to build their own homes, as it overturned a lower court's ruling that narrowed the Small House Policy. The policy, which dates back to 1972, allows for three-sto...

The Secretary for Health, Sophia Chan, on Wednesday faced a barrage of criticism from pro-Beijing lawmakers over the government's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, with one legislator describing her as a "broken record player" for repeating her answ...

The labour secretary on Wednesday rejected what he said could be a discriminatory suggestion by DAB lawmaker Elizabeth Quat to impose a "weekend lockdown" on foreign domestic helpers (FDH) to help fight the coronavirus in the territory. During a Leg...

A District Court judge said on Wednesday that he had ordered people wearing yellow masks out of his courtroom not because of the colour, but because the masks had a political slogan on them. Ernest Lin had caused a stir on Monday when he told three ...