RTHK journalist Bao Choy was on Thursday found guilty of improper searches of an online car licence plate database, as part of an investigation by the station aimed at identifying some of the perpetrators of the 2019 Yuen Long attack. Choy, 37, was ...

Lawmakers on Thursday expressed concern about proposed changes to election rules that will leave candidates out of pocket if a poll is called off because one of their opponents is disqualified or dies. The Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau ...

Customs officers said on Thursday they had broken up an alleged family-run syndicate they accused of laundering some HK$2.5 billion in just a couple of years. Officers arrested a couple and their son, as well as a former employee of a currency excha...

Former chief justice Geoffrey Ma has raised concerns about the “strange provision” of the national security law that allows the chief executive to appoint judges to oversee national security cases. Ma made the comments during a webinar on March ...

The lawmaker representing the tourism sector, Yiu Si-wing, said on Thursday that he believes local tours can resume next month as Hong Kong's coronavirus situation eases. Yiu told an RTHK programme that the government has agreed that participants o...

An RTHK documentary investigating the 2019 Yuen Long mob attack has won the prestigious annual Kam Yiu-yu Press Freedom Award, as one of the producers awaits the verdict in a court case connected to the programme. The award went to an episode of Hon...

The government said on Wednesday that it was "appalled" by comments made by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) after the international press freedom watchdog warned that the national security law poses a "grave threat" to journalism in Hong Kong in its ...

Top pro-democracy figures Jimmy Lai, Martin Lee and Albert Ho on Wednesday appealed against their convictions and sentences for their roles in an anti-government protest on August 18, 2019. Last week, Lai was jailed for 12 months in prison while Lee...

A woman who was allegedly shot in the eye during a protest in 2019 has lost a legal challenge in relation to the police force gaining access to her medical records. The woman, known only as "K" in court, was found lying injured outside Tsim Sha Tsui...

A pro-democracy church leader in Hong Kong who openly opposed the national security law and 2019’s ill-fated extradition bill has resigned from his post for "personal reasons", days before he was due to complete his term. The biggest umbrella grou...

Police said on Wednesday they had arrested 19 people for allegedly trying to cheat almost HK$3 million out of a pandemic subsidy scheme for the travel industry, using fake receipts. The alleged fraud involved 15 local travel firms that police said a...

The government says it’s considering whether to scrap the requirement that funds used to settle property transactions go through the accounts of law firms. The suggestion came after the Law Society ordered the shutdown of the Wong, Fung and Co la...

Two Kwai Tsing district councillors on Wednesday urged the government to rethink its plan to quarantine returnees from the UK at a Tsing Yi hotel, saying nearby residents are worried about the possible spread of Covid-19 variants. The Rambler Garden...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Wednesday offered an alternative suggestion for any young Hongkongers who have failed to be convinced about the attractions of the Greater Bay Area, suggesting they pack up and move to Hainan instead. She said not only ...

A local green group said on Wednesday that the city needs to create a circular economy for plastics, with the material making up the majority of coastal waste they had collected over the past decade. The Environmental Association said it had collect...

DAB lawmaker Holden Chow warned on Wednesday that the pro-democracy Confederation of Trade Unions (CTU) could be violating the national security law with its private screenings of three documentaries on the social unrest of 2019. Chow said the group...

A student has been sent to a training centre for vandalising the Tsuen Wan office of pro-Beijing lawmaker Junius Ho in 2019. Anson Chu, 20, was put into detention on Wednesday after a second appeal by the Department of Justice (DOJ) against his ear...

Medical experts on Wednesday raised doubts over a presumption that a mutated strain of coronavirus had been spread at a quarantine hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui via door hooks. A man who travelled from Dubai and completed a 21-day quarantine at Ramada Hon...

Singapore has announced it will reduce mandatory quarantine requirements for people arriving from Hong Kong by a week. It said that from Friday, people who have stayed in Hong Kong for at least 14 consecutive days can instead do seven days of home q...

A co-convenor of the government panel on Covid vaccines has downplayed fears of a mass outbreak due to highly-infectious strains recently found here. Professor Ivan Hung from the University of Hong Kong praised government efforts in containing the s...