The High Court on Wednesday refused to overturn the Law Society's decision to shut down a law firm alleged to have misappropriated its clients’ funds. The application for an interim injunction order was made by a partner of the troubled firm Wong,...

A man who admitted to carrying a flick knife and a lighter with him during an anti-government protest last year has been sent to two months in jail after the Department of Justice (DOJ) won a sentencing review. Chan King-shing, 28, was originally or...

Representatives of the tourism sector on Wednesday called on the government to hire unemployed workers in their industry for temporary positions, such as helpers at vaccination centres or guides at country parks. Four associations under the Federati...

Reports that a government panel looking into tenancy control for subdivided units may bring back a rule giving tenants priority to renew their leases have come under fire from both owners' and residents' representatives. The Task Force for the Study...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Wednesday said she was thrilled that an overnight lockdown of two streets in Yau Ma Tei, to identify Covid-19 carriers, had achieved the goals of "being confidential", "focusing on an area", and "compressing the lockdown...

A district councilor said on Wednesday that the government may have tested only around half of the residents living in the three buildings in Yau Ma Tei that were put under lockdown overnight. Lee Wai-fung was speaking shortly after officials lifte...

Officials on Wednesday lifted an 11-hour overnight lockdown on two streets in Yau Ma Tei after testing 330 people, finding one positive case of Covid-19. The lockdown, the first example of what Chief Executive Carrie Lam describes as "ambush-style" ...

Officials in the early hours of Wednesday ordered mandatory coronavirus tests for resident and visitors to 40 buildings across the SAR, eight of which are found in a single block in Kowloon City. Most of the orders affect newly expanded zones where...

HSBC's chief executive, Noel Quinn, has told British lawmakers that the bank did not make political or moral judgments when it froze the accounts of Hong Kong activists, saying it had no choice but to comply with the law in any jurisdiction it works ...

Residents of two streets in Yau Ma Tei have expressed shock at seeing their area plunged into a sudden lockdown on Tuesday evening, though they said the move was understandable and expressed hope that the mandatory testing would protect them from the...

The government issued a lockdown order on Tuesday evening for a number of buildings in Yau Ma Tei, requiring all residents there to be tested for Covid-19 and stay put. The buildings are located on 9-27 Pitt Street and 3 Tung On Street. The lockdow...

Secretary for Development Michael Wong on Tuesday defended the government's proposal to solve traffic congestion in Kwun Tong with elevated moving walkways, after giving up a plan to build a monorail system there due to construction difficulties. D...

The government on Tuesday announced that more buildings in Jordan, Mong Kok, Yau Ma Tei and Hung Hom are coming under stringent mandatory coronavirus testing rules. Two new areas, in Hung Hom, and Yau Ma Tei/Mong Kok, will see tests ordered for all ...

The head of the territory's biggest police association on Tuesday lashed out at RTHK for what he said was misleading coverage of last weekend's lockdown in Jordan, accusing the public broadcaster of harming the territory. Pro-Beijing figures had alr...

Hong Kong authorities are scrutinising the financial records of pro-democracy activists as they crack down on political opposition, according to some activists and a senior bank executive. Six pro-democracy activists told the Reuters news agency tha...

An expert on a government panel tasked with monitoring the use of coronavirus vaccines in Hong Kong said on Tuesday that health authorities would make sure people are treated quickly if they develop severe side effects after getting the jabs. Profes...

A respiratory disease expert who earlier suggested sealing off the Yau Ma Tei fruit market and its neighbourhood says a lockdown may not be necessary after all, if enough residents there undergo Covid-19 tests. The earlier suggestion by David Hui, ...

The High Court on Tuesday threw out an appeal by exiled former lawmaker Ted Hui over his conviction for snatching a mobile phone from a Security Bureau official in Legco in 2018. Judge Wilson Chan noted that Hui had not turned up for the case, and n...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday that she hopes new US president Joe Biden will view Hong Kong's national security law in a fair manner, adding that it's just as good as similar legislation in other places, if not better. In a speech deliv...

Police said on Tuesday that a Chinese University student is wanted in connection with an alleged attack earlier this month by a group of people on campus security guards. The force called on the student, who wasn't named, as well as "other assailan...