A High Court jury on Tuesday convicted a couple of murdering their five-year-old daughter in 2018. After a 14-hour deliberation, the jury of three men and four women unanimously convicted the father of murder and reached a six-to-one guilty verdict ...

The government is formally proposing to make it a crime for people to urge others to cast blank or spoiled ballots, or not to vote at all, as it unveiled a host of bills to amend local laws in line with the sweeping electoral reforms initiated by Bei...

A man has been jailed for three and a half years for throwing petrol bombs at a police residential quarters in Sheung Shui last year, with the judge saying the defendant ought to "turn his hostility into calmness". Wong Kam-chuen, who's in his 60s, ...

Conservationists are calling on the government to do more to preserve wetlands, after a study found that fewer and fewer migratory birds are returning to Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Bird Watching Society made the call on Tuesday as it published its an...

Hong Kong's first ever "National Security Education Day" on April 15 will see a whole host of activities and spectacles, from talks and competitions to goose stepping firemen, the authorities said on Tuesday. A special website launched for the occas...

Officers at Kwun Tong Police Station drew their guns in the early hours of Tuesday after a man allegedly attacked one of their colleagues with a hammer. The force alleged that a man entered the station's car park shortly after midnight and used a ha...

The head of Hong Kong’s equality watchdog told RTHK on Tuesday that the government’s new plans to ease Covid restrictions only for people who have been vaccinated may be discriminatory, even though they’re likely to be legally sound. Equal Opp...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday that the government will not regulate how people vote in future elections, and come polling day they can choose whichever candidate they like, or none at all. As she met the press before this week's Executi...

Four disciplinary forces say their officers will perform People's Liberation Army style marching on "National Security Education Day", rather than the traditional British drills. The customs, immigration, correctional services and fire services depa...

Carrie Lam said on Tuesday that the government had to come up with "stronger incentives" to persuade Hong Kong people to get Covid-19 vaccines and dismissed suggestions that the new measures are "too complicated". The chief executive made the comme...

Health minister Sophia Chan says officials will, from this week, discuss details of Hong Kong's new "vaccine bubble" with the trades concerned. The scheme, which relaxes some Covid-19 social distancing measures, was announced on Monday by the Chief E...

A patients' rights advocate says the government should allow people with negative Covid-19 test results to have the same privileges as vaccinated people. Tim Pang from the Society for Community Organisation said some people's health condition meant...

Police are investigating a fatal traffic accident in Wan Chai in which an 88-year-old woman died after being hit by a tram. The incident occurred at about 4 pm on Monday afternoon when the tram was travelling westbound on Hennessy Road and hit the w...

A Hong Kong newspaper that is critical of Beijing said Monday its printing presses were ransacked by a gang of men wielding sledgehammers. Footage released by the paper showed four masked men storming into the printing plant in the early hours of M...

The government said on Monday that visiting restrictions at care homes for the elderly and the disabled will be relaxed for those who’re fully vaccinated. The Secretary for Labour and Welfare, Law Chi-kwong, said under the plan for a “vaccine bu...

The Centre for Health Protection reported 13 new coronavirus infections on Monday, two of which were locally acquired and linked to previous cases. One of the newly-confirmed cases is a 14-year-old boy who lives at a public housing estate in Tuen Mu...

The government is to allow a limited number of mainlanders to visit Hong Kong without having to go into quarantine from mid-May, but an as-yet undecided quota will be set for the exact number of arrivals. Chief Executive Carrie Lam told a press conf...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Monday signaled a new phase in Hong Kong’s fight against the coronavirus, saying people who get vaccinated would enjoy a further easing of social distancing restrictions that could see bars, karaokes and nightclubs reo...

A bus driver on Monday admitted in the District Court to ramming his double-decker into trees in 2019, killing six passengers and injuring 39 others. Man Chi-kwong, 57, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing death and grievous bodily harm. Th...

Chinese tech giant Huawei on Monday said it had reached an agreement with HSBC in Hong Kong to secure documents that its senior executive Meng Wanzhou hopes will help her fight extradition to the United States from Canada. Chief financial officer M...