Police said they arrested four men in connection with a robbery on a car in Yau Ma Tei. Officers said the robbers crashed their car into the victim's vehicle on Hoi Po Road and smashed the windows with hammers before stealing HK$16 million in cash. ...

The president of the Federation of Restaurants and Related Trades, Simon Wong, has dismissed concerns that some employees in the catering sector would face the sack if they don't get vaccinated against Covid-19. The government earlier announced tha...

Liberal Party leader Felix Chung says the party will probably stop running for directly elected seats in future Legco polls. The decision follows Beijing's decision to reform the SAR's electoral system. Earlier this week, the Chief Executive, Carr...

Health officials have ordered the quarantine of more than 80 residents of a building in Jordan on Saturday after the discovery of a highly infectious coronavirus variant. The N501Y mutant strain was uncovered in the Parkes Building. While an over...

The sentencing of nine veteran pro-democracy activists on Friday drew international criticism. In a statement, Hong Kong’s last colonial governor, Chris Patten, noted the Chinese Communist Party (CPC)'s “comprehensive assault on the freedoms of...

A youth group says its recent survey of 750 children has found that half are unsatisfied with Hong Kong's governance, with almost a tenth of them saying they'd like to leave the territory. The Boys' and Girls' Clubs Association polled children aged ...

Police say a fire at a Sau Mau Ping public flat early on Friday which left four people dead appears to have been caused by an overheated battery. A 60-year-old man managed to escape the blaze in the fifth floor unit, but was left in intensive care, ...

Five of the most well known pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong were jailed for up to 18 months on Friday and four were given suspended sentences, for their involvement in one of the largest 2019 protests over the government's widely despised extrad...

Education Secretary Kevin Yeung has brushed aside legislators’ calls to make it compulsory for schools to report suspected child abuse cases, saying it’s not fair to rely solely on teachers because “children after all only spend a few hours in ...

Prosecutors have pressed two additional charges against pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai, including another one under the national security law. As well as the earlier charge of colluding with foreign powers, Lai is now also accused of conspiri...

Police Commissioner Chris Tang on Friday accused the media of "smearing" and trying to intimidate people who are “close and supportive” of his officers, saying this is “extremely unethical”. At a Legco meeting, Tang accused a newspaper he di...

Health authorities on Friday reported 17 new coronavirus infections, of which six were locally acquired. Among the local cases, five are relatives of a couple who were confirmed to have the virus on Thursday. Officials said the family had gathere...

A local restaurant chain has admitted that it's told workers to get vaccinated soon if they want to keep on working. An internal memo of the U-Banquet group, which says that workers must be vaccinated by April 26 or they won't be able to work from A...

The District Court on Friday heard mitigation pleas from seven prominent pro-democracy figures convicted of organising and taking part in one of the biggest anti-government protests of 2019. Founding chairman of the Democratic Party Martin Lee, medi...

The Court of Appeal on Friday sent a teenager to a rehabilitation centre over his trashing of a mainland-owned bubble tea shop, after prosecutors successfully challenged the community service order he was given by Sha Tin Magistracy in December. Cho...

Hong Kong people are applying for the bespoke visa route for British National Overseas passport holders at a rate of 3,000 per week, The Times newspaper reported on Friday, quoting leaked figures. More than 35,000 British National Overseas (BNO) cit...

Four people have died, including a two-year-old child, after a fire at a public housing flat in Sau Mau Ping. Two others were injured, one of them seriously. Duty assistant divisional officer Wong Kwok-chun said the fire broke out at around 3am i...

Hong Kong's police chief Chris Tang on Thursday accused the United States of using its agents in the SAR to undermine national security, saying this is exactly what they did to incite the protests of 2019. This is a fact, he told the media, after at...

Health authorities reported on Thursday that a couple who live in Yuen Long have come down with Covid-19, sending up to 50 of their friends, relatives and colleagues into quarantine. The wife, 29, started coughing and had a sore throat on Friday la...

Police Commissioner Chris Tang said on Thursday that he was "shocked" by the arrest of an RTHK employee on suspicion of possessing imitation firearms, claiming that if the journalist had not been stopped by officers, there could have been serious con...