Authorities on Friday ordered all gym workers in Hong Kong to get tested for Covid by Sunday. A major coronavirus outbreak at a gym in Sai Ying Pun worsened on Friday, with 47 more customers and their close contacts coming down with the infection. ...

Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne on Friday expressed serious concern about Beijing's planned changes to Hong Kong's electoral system, saying the overhaul will weaken Hong Kong's democratic institutions. "It is essential that Hong Kong people...

Pro-establishment heavyweight Tam Yiu-chung said on Friday that a new screening committee to review and confirm the qualifications of candidates for the Election Committee, the chief executive and the Legco polls – as part of Beijing-led electoral ...

Veteran democrat and former journalist Emily Lau said on Friday that the director of broadcasting's move to abruptly pull an episode of a TV show she featured in – covering the electoral overhaul planned for Hong Kong – was both "very alarming" a...

Former Taiwan president Ma Ying-jeou said on Friday that Beijing’s latest decision to overhaul Hong Kong’s electoral system spells the death of ‘One Country, Two Systems’. Speaking to reporters while attending a memorial to mark the 96th an...

A senior mainland official overseeing Hong Kong affairs said the proposed changes to the SAR’s electoral system are not meant to impose “uniformity”, and that pan-democrats can still take part in elections and be elected. Zhang Xiaoming, depu...

A government adviser on the pandemic, David Hui, on Friday described an outbreak linked to a Sai Ying Pun gym as a "symptom" of a fifth wave of Covid-19. Around 50 people connected to Ursus Fitness – staff, customers and their close contacts – h...

Twenty-one of the 47 pro-democracy figures charged with subversion under the national security law will continue to be held in custody after West Kowloon Magistrates' Court on Friday upheld its decision to refuse some of them bail, while others withd...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Thursday said that changes to the city’s electoral system are not aimed at removing opposition, but safeguarding national security. Lam told reporters at a press conference that there had been lawmakers, without namin...

The European Union on Thursday warned China it could take "additional steps" as it condemned a vote by Beijing's rubber-stamp parliament for sweeping changes to Hong Kong's electoral system. "The National People's Congress of the People's Republic o...

The United States on Thursday condemned Beijing's move to change Hong Kong's electoral system, calling it a continuing assault on democracy in the territory and forecast "difficult" talks with China's top diplomats next week. "The changes approved b...

Health authorities have confirmed that a 70-year-old woman has died, nine days after receiving the mainland-produced Sinovac coronavirus vaccine. She is the fourth person in the SAR to die after receiving the Sinovac vaccine, since the city’s inoc...

The Antiquities Advisory Board on Thursday decided to categorise a recently rediscovered underground reservoir in Sham Shui Po as a Grade 1 historic building, advising the government to make every effort to preserve it. The board said the reservoir�...

Premier Li Keqiang said on Thursday the purpose of the National People’s Congress decision endorsing changes to the SAR’s electoral system is to “adhere to and improve the systemic structure of One Country, Two Systems” and “uphold the prin...

Sixteen people connected to a Sai Ying Pun gym have come down with Covid-19, one day after a fitness trainer there contracted the disease. The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) said the Ursus Fitness cluster now stands at 17, of which seven are sta...

Senior Hong Kong officials put out a flurry of statements on Thursday afternoon expressing their delight at the NPC's approval of Beijing's plan to overhaul Hong Kong's electoral system. Several, including the director of fire services, the commissi...

Britain’s foreign secretary Dominic Raab said on Thursday that the decision by the National People’s Congress to make sweeping changes to Hong Kong’s electoral system will undermine international confidence and trust in China. Raab’s comment...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Thursday expressed her administration's "sincere gratitude" to the National People's Congress for approving Beijing's plan for a drastic overhaul of Hong Kong's electoral system, saying the changes will fix the problem o...

Three men have each been sentenced to 40 months in prison after pleading guilty to robbing a supermarket of 600 rolls of toilet paper in February last year when the Covid-19 pandemic began. The District Court heard that on February 17 last year, on...

The National People’s Congress (NPC) on Thursday officially endorsed a proposal to “refine” Hong Kong’s election system, at the conclusion of its annual plenary session. The plan, which officials say will make sure the SAR is ruled by "patri...