The chairman of the Federation of Civil Service Unions, Leung Chau-ting, warned on Sunday that more young civil servants would want to leave the government rather than sign an oath of allegiance to the Basic Law and the SAR. Speaking on RTHK’s Ci...

A Yau Tsim Mong district councillor on Sunday accused the government of failing to show cultural sensitivity in its treatment of people locked down in Jordan, after Muslim residents were handed food packages containing luncheon meat. Officials hande...

A government adviser on the pandemic has said the area around the Yau Ma Tei wholesale fruit market may be next to face a lockdown, as he urged officials to move faster to avoid leaks if they have to seal off an area of town again. David Hui, a res...

Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung said on Sunday that he was confident that a lockdown covering a densely-packed area of Jordan would end by Monday morning, although officials are struggling to contact some households. Speaking after spending half an h...

Roundtable lawmaker Michael Tien has rejected comparisons between the storming of the Legislative Council in 2019 and a mob attack on the US Capitol earlier this month, but criticised those who attempt to rationalise violence by protesters in the SAR...

Hong Kong's tally of Covid-19 cases pushed through the 10,000 mark on Saturday, a year after the city recorded its first coronavirus case – a 39-year-old man from Wuhan, who arrived in the SAR on January 22 via high-speed rail and testing positive ...

The Chief Executive, Carrie Lam, has defended the government’s unprecedented decision to impose a partial lockdown in Jordan, saying it was a matter of public health. Speaking to reporters after inspecting the restricted zone on Saturday, Lam sai...

Thousands of Jordan residents streamed to Covid-19 testing booths on Saturday, hours after the government made the unprecedented move of setting up a restricted zone in part of the Kowloon district, while imposing a 48-hour lockdown. Jordan is at t...

Officials on Saturday said around 10,000 residents, living in the part of Jordan currently under 48-hour lockdown, would have to take a Covid-19 test by midnight. It follows a 4 am move by the government to set up a restricted area and test everyone ...

The government on Saturday morning locked down an area in Jordan, citing chapter 599J of the Regulations on Disease Prevention and Control. The area designated as ''restricted'' in Jordan runs from Woosung Street in the east, Nanking Street in the s...

Yau Tsim Mong district councillors on Friday demanded clarification from the government over whether it will impose a partial lockdown on the Covid-19-hit district, after a day of swirling rumours that some people could be confined to their homes unl...

Police said they have arrested seven people for their suspected involvement in an investment scam involving HK$110 million. Officers said the seven have allegedly duped at least 182 victims into investing in projects involving low risk but attracti...

Representatives of the bar and karaoke industries have joined calls from owners of beauty parlours and cinemas for the government to allow their businesses to reopen ahead of the Chinese New Year. The government ordered karaokes and bars to close ag...

Authorities ordered all residents living in flats C at Kensington Plaza in Jordan on Friday evening to evacuate amid a Covid-19 outbreak in the building. The Department of Health said the residents will be taken to quarantine centres, while those wi...

Hong Kong's member of the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC), Tam Yiu-chung, on Friday confirmed that local NPC deputies have written to Beijing, asking it to send Covid vaccines manufactured by mainland company, Sinopharm, to the ...

Health officials say they will send experts to investigate a Covid-19 outbreak at Kensington Plaza in Jordan, after residents in several flats there came down with the coronavirus. This came as Hong Kong reported 61 new Covid-19 cases on Friday, 55...

RTHK journalist Nabela Qoser, who enraged pro-government figures with her tough questioning of officials during the 2019 protests, has had her civil service contract terminated, the station's staff union said on Friday. Qoser, an assistant programme...

A pro-government healthcare workers' group and four unions in the medical sector say a survey they've carried out suggests Hong Kong doctors, nurses and dentists prefer China's Sinovac coronavirus jabs to those developed overseas. Medical Conscience...

The new chairwoman of the American Chamber of Commerce, Jessica Bartlett, said on Friday that she does not anticipate there will be a mass exodus of US capital from Hong Kong due to the implementation of the national security law last year. Bartlet...

A motion of thanks for Chief Executive Carrie Lam’s policy address was easily passed by the pro-government dominated Legislative Council on Friday, with all but two lawmakers voting in support of it. Lawmakers praised the city’s leader for featu...