Health officials have urged the public to remain vigilant against the coronavirus despite a slight drop in new infections, saying the virus is still being transmitted widely in the city. Authorities reported 39 new Covid cases on Thursday, all but o...

A man who admitted carrying two iron pipes with him has been given a three-month prison term, after the Department of Justice (DOJ) successfully challenged his original, more lenient punishment. Szeto Ho-sun, 21, was previously jailed for 10 days af...

Customs officials have arrested two people for allegedly producing and selling a batch of contaminated face masks. The department said it found bacteria exceeding the permitted limit by 12.5 times on more than 1,500 pieces of multi-coloured masks pr...

Veteran activist Koo Sze-yiu was sentenced to four months in prison on Thursday after being convicted of desecrating the national flag. Koo, 74, was accused of displaying a tainted national flag when he showed up outside court in July last year in s...

More than 60 RTHK employees gathered outside the station's headquarters on Thursday to protest against the treatment of well-known reporter Nabela Qoser, who has been stripped of her civil service contract. The group wore black and masks bearing Qos...

Researchers from the University of Hong Kong's medical school said on Thursday that the number of people who say they intend to get vaccinated against the coronavirus has dropped substantially. Out of several hundred people surveyed earlier this mo...

The privacy watchdog on Thursday launched a hotline dedicated for complaints and enquiries about doxxing. The problem was rife in 2019 amid the social unrest, with the Privacy Commission saying most of the cases that came to its attention involved p...

The Court of Appeal has sent a secondary school student to a rehabilitation centre for assaulting a police officer at a protest in 2019, overturning a lower court decision to put him on probation following an appeal by the Department of Justice. Th...

An infectious diseases expert said on Thursday that authorities need to conduct testing and tracing for coronavirus much quicker – warning that a failure to bring Covid-19 numbers sharply down in the next two weeks would lead to another rise in inf...

Police on Thursday said they had arrested a personal fitness trainer on suspicion of swindling a 72-year-old woman out of HK$2.5 million and four luxury watches worth HK$900,000. Officers said the retired woman joined a fitness centre in Sau Mau Pi...

A representative of the funeral industry says a potential lockdown in an area of Hung Hom would affect more than 60 funeral businesses and their daily work. Authorities have marked the area bordered by Station Lane, Dock Street, Po Loi Street, Wins...

The Security Bureau has condemned foreign politicians for exerting pressure on financial institutions that have complied with Hong Kong's laws, accusing them of disregarding the rule of law. The bureau did not specify which politicians or financial...

Hong Kong's sole delegate to the nation's top legislative body says the central and SAR governments will consider what actions to take after President Xi Jinping remarked that only "patriots" could properly govern Hong Kong. Xi made the remarks duri...

President Xi Jinping has told Chief Executive Carrie Lam that ‘patriots’ must rule Hong Kong for the SAR to maintain stability and prosperity, while safeguarding the practice of ‘One Country, Two Systems’ and the entire constitutional order. ...

Health authorities will be partially evacuating residents of Tung Fat Building in North Point after 13 people there tested positive or preliminary positive for Covid-19 in the last few days. Residents living in units six and seven of block C, which...

The Law Society says an agent it appointed to intervene into a law firm found to have misappropriated client funds is still trying to find out the total sum of money involved in the case. The society used its statutory powers to shut down Wong, Fun...

A new coronavirus cluster has emerged at a congee shop in Hung Hom while another cluster at a residential block in North Point has expanded, forcing a partial evacuation of residents there. Hong Kong reported 60 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, 2...

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...