A stage director and actor was jailed for seven and a half years on Friday for sexually assaulting underage girls and making child pornography. Wong Ka-wai, 39, admitted that between 2014 and 2018, he induced four girls he met online into taking su...

Lawmakers on Friday urged the government to look further into construction problems surrounding the scandal-hit Sha Tin to Central Link after an investigation report by an expert team revealed that more steel bars than needed were used in building Hu...

Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury Christopher Hui on Friday dismissed criticism that the tightening of company registry searches is a “regression”, saying the move is aimed at protecting people’s privacy as ‘doxxing’ has bec...

The District Court has ruled that it can try offences related to uttering seditious words because the national security law prevails over all local laws. Lawyers for People Power activist Tam Tak-chi, who faces numerous charges for allegedly chantin...

Stores of pro-democracy retail chain AbouThai saw a rush on Friday, a day after the company was raided by customs and had products worth around HK$400,000 seized. A 33-year-old director of the firm was arrested on Thursday as around a hundred office...

Health Secretary Sophia Chan said on Friday that the government will delay shipments of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine this year, amid mounting concerns over possible links between the shot and very rare cases of blood clots. The government has orde...

Hong Kong residents looking to take advantage of a Tourism Board promotion offering discounted stays at local hotels were left frustrated on Friday morning, with the promotion’s website unable to cope with demand. The Tourism Board’s “Staycati...

Pro-government politicians on Friday backed the administration’s plans to widen quarantine exemptions for people travelling into Hong Kong from the mainland – including non-residents. Currently, Hong Kong residents returning from Macau or Guangd...

Hong Kong Customs says it's seized a batch of 14 brands of shower gel, detergents and bleaches from a chain retailer – and insisted that the action was not an attempt to "repress" the store. Customs did not name the chain involved but the retailer...

Cathay Pacific says seats on its first passenger flights from London since December have been snapped up within hours. The airline posted on its website on Thursday evening that the two flights, CX2252 on April 21 and 28, were sold out. The gover...

Beijing on Thursday accused the UK of sheltering "wanted criminals" after prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Nathan Law said he had been granted political asylum there. Law, 27, fled the SAR when the national security law was imposed on the ...

A 29-year-old man has been jailed for three years after pleading guilty to rioting in Mong Kok in 2016, with the judge rejecting pleas for a more lenient punishment because the defendant has had cancer. In handing down sentence on Thursday, Distric...

A university student accused of possessing a pepper ball gun has now also been charged with violating the national security law. Lui Sai-yu, 23, was arrested at his Fanling home last September and accused of possessing the gun without a licence, as...

Police shot and wounded a man on Thursday after a car chase from the Tolo Highway to outside the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sha Tin. The male motorist was shot in the shoulder while his girlfriend and their two-year-old daughter were also in the ve...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam says she will not reverse plans to build funeral facilities in North District, although they will be located at a key site designated for Hong Kong’s Greater Bay Area development. At a question and answer session on Thur...

Hongkongers stranded in the UK for months can book seats from Thursday on two special flights to return home, but some have expressed concerns about the arrangements the government has put in place for their quarantine. Since late December, the aut...

Human rights and freedoms have been greatly stifled in Hong Kong after the enactment of the national security law, with authorities increasingly using safeguarding national security to legitimise politically motivated repression – according to an a...

The government will next Wednesday table a host of bills in relation to Beijing's electoral overhaul in the city, Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Thursday. Lam told lawmakers that the legal amendments are related to laws on the chief executive an...

Medical experts in Hong Kong are divided on whether the government should go ahead with its order for 7.5 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, following the latest findings linking the jab to rare blood clots The European Medicines Agency annou...

Former lawmaker Nathan Law said on Wednesday that he has been granted political asylum in the UK, almost ten months after he fled Hong Kong ahead of the imposition of the national security law last June. In a series of tweets, the activist said “A...