Health officials said on Friday that the suspected coronavirus case the authorities found during their latest ambush lockdowns turned out to be a recovered Covid patient. Thursday night saw buildings in Yau Ma Tei and Mong Kok sealed off as tests we...

Five of the 24 pro-democracy figures charged in connection with an unauthorised assembly last year marking the June Fourth crackdown said on Friday that they plan to plead guilty. Former lawmaker Chu Hoi-dick, jailed activist Joshua Wong and distric...

The MTR Corporation says new shorter trains, with only nine carriages rather than the usual 12, will start running on the East Rail Line from Saturday. The railway operator says the move is to prepare for when trains eventually cross the harbour as ...

Health Secretary Sophia Chan has defended a proposal to let Hong Kong residents trained elsewhere as doctors practise more easily in the SAR, saying it's a much-needed and timely change to ease a manpower shortage. The proposal would allow doctors ...

A man who fled a hospital isolation ward after he was confirmed to have Covid-19 has been jailed for six months. Li Wan-keung, 63, pleaded guilty to violating anti-epidemic laws in December last year. He ran away from Queen Elizabeth Hospital and ...

The Education Secretary, Kevin Yeung, said on Friday that schools that fail to act or report obvious breaches of the national security law on campuses could be held responsible under new guidelines on national security education. His comments came o...

Lawmakers have expressed doubt as to whether a proposed Railway Department would be able to tackle the sort of problems that the MTR Corporation has found itself embroiled in in recent years, saying the root cause is the company's monopoly. Among ot...

Police on Friday said they had made their biggest ever seizure of ketamine, finding a haul worth some HK$437 million. Officers said they arrested a 23-year-old man as he left an apartment in Yuen Long on Wednesday. At a warehouse in Kwai Chung, of...

The vice-president of the Professional Teachers' Union, Ip Kin-yuen, says he is astonished to see the "vast scope" of the government's proposed national security education guidelines, as well as the lack of consultation with teachers before it was dr...

Health officials say coronavirus tests on more than 2,100 residents of Mong Kok and Yau Ma Tei overnight led to the discovery of one preliminary positive case. The latest "ambush lockdowns" came to an end by 7am on Friday morning. One preliminary ...

The government has ordered the slaughter of about 240 pigs at a farm in Yuen Long after six animals tested positive for the African swine fever virus that reached epidemic levels on the mainland in 2019. The virus is harmless to humans and is not co...

The Food and Health Bureau on Thursday proposed to set up a committee to draw a list of up to a hundred medical schools abroad to allow their graduates to come practice in the SAR. This comes after Chief Executive Carrie Lam said the government will...

The Education Bureau has laid out its vision for national security education in local schools, under which primary school pupils as young as six will be taught about the four categories of national security offences; high-schoolers will learn that th...

A section of Yau Ma Tei was sealed off on Thursday evening, along with a residential building in Mong Kok, in the government’s latest ‘ambush-style’ lockdowns that are part of its efforts to eliminate community infections of Covid-19. Anyone w...

The government has proposed a series of measures to help people who can't find enough work during the coronavirus pandemic. Labour secretary Law Chi-kwong said on Thursday that the government is seeking to relax the criteria for a basic subsidy for...

Health authorities have ordered more than 200 staff at a hotel in Hung Hom to get tested for Covid-19 after another staff member there came down with the infection. Officials said a customer service officer at the Harbourfront Horizon has contracted...

The Hospital Authority said on Thursday that 5,000 members of staff who care for vulnerable patients are getting Covid tests on a voluntary basis every two weeks, although those looking after people who are known to have the virus are not included. ...

A 24-year-old construction worker was on Thursday jailed for three years and two months, after he admitted to possessing explosives in his Tin Shui Wai flat. The District Court heard that Lo Chun-hei was arrested on August 1, 2019 after the police ...

Canada, Britain and the United States have expressed alarm after Ottawa revealed that authorities in Hong Kong forced a dual citizen to choose one nationality, enforcing what they said was a little-used regulation for the first time in decades. Cana...

The Consumer Council said it received more than 30,000 complaints last year – 26 percent more than the previous year and the highest since 2015 – due to a surge in travel- and health-related cases amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The watchdog said mo...