A 30-year-old legal assistant charged under the national security law has been remanded in custody after the West Kowloon Magistracy adjourned his hearing to June 7. Prosecutors allege that Chan Tsz-wah colluded with media tycoon Jimmy Lai, activist...

Authorities on Wednesday reported five new coronavirus cases, all but one were imported. The local case was a 70-year-old man who lives in Oi Fai House in Yau Oi Estate, Tuen Mun. He developed symptoms on March 31. The public housing block was p...

Federation of Trade Unions lawmaker Alice Mak says she's hopeful of a high voter turnout when the next set of Legco members are returned this December, but thinks the government should step up its propaganda efforts to make it happen. A bill to cha...

The District Court on Wednesday jailed a barista for four and a half years over her involvement in an anti-government protest in Mong Kok two years ago, in which she helped light a large fire on the street. Siu Lok-ting, 27, was earlier convicted o...

Executive councillor Ronny Tong said on Wednesday that the government's move to make calls for election boycotts illegal is "politically and ethically" the right thing to do and people should "stop making a fuss about it". Tong said the SAR governme...

Families of patients at eight hospitals will be able to visit them from April 21, the Hospital Authority said on Wednesday. Speaking on an RTHK radio programme, a senior executive manager at the authority, Leung Ming, said they will be calling famil...

No new coronavirus cases were found after authorities locked down around 780 residents of a building in a Sham Tseng estate on Tuesday night. The block in Lido Garden was sealed off for overnight testing after one person living there was confirmed t...

More residents of a Covid-hit public housing block in Tuen Mun are being put into quarantine. The Centre for Health Protection said on Tuesday there was one more confirmed case on the 22nd floor of Block 3, Oi Fai House at Yau Oi Estate. That...

A residential block at Lido Garden in Sham Tseng was put under lockdown on Tuesday night, with all residents required to undergo mandatory Covid-19 testing overnight. Officials decided to put Tower 2 of Lido Garden under lockdown after a resident th...

A group of pharmacists has suggested the government expand its vaccination drive, as it backed officials' plan to ease Covid-19 restrictions only for people who have been inoculated. Representatives of the Society of Hospital Pharmacists were speak...

Activist Joshua Wong was on Tuesday given another four months in prison after pleading guilty to joining an unauthorised assembly two years ago, and violating the anti-mask law he was protesting against. Another defendant in the case, veteran pro-...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam revealed on Tuesday that she will be adding community leaders to a powerful new committee that will decide on the eligibility of all candidates for the Election Committee, Legco, and even the SAR’s top job. The Candidate...

Health officials on Tuesday reported 13 new Covid-19 infections, including three local cases. One of the local cases, a 55-year-old housewife who lives in Sham Tseng, was infected via an unknown source and started coughing on April 4. The housewi...

A High Court jury on Tuesday convicted the father and stepmother of a five-year-old girl of murdering her 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...

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

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...