Police have arrested an elderly care home resident on suspicion that he had murdered another man living in the same facility. Officers said an 85-year-old man was found unconscious with eyes injuries on Friday night, soon after surveillance camera ...

Health officials on Saturday confirmed three new local coronavirus infections, and one of them is a Filipino helper who was found to be carrying a highly infectious variant of Covid-19 after she completed her quarantine. The helper, 38, was one of ...

The government said on Saturday that it found no coronavirus cases after testing around 950 residents in a building in South Horizons in Ap Lei Chau during an overnight ambush-style lockdown. Authorities sealed off Yee Lai Court, or Block 10 of Sou...

Lawmaker Priscilla Leung on Saturday urged the government to set up a centre to train specialists in child psychology, saying social workers may not be best suited to handle suspected child abuse cases. She was commenting after a couple was recently...

Health experts have called on authorities to step up infection control measures to prevent the mutated Covid strains from spreading in the SAR, after the third N501Y infection in the community was recorded on Friday. Professor Ivan Hung, co-convenor...

Health authorities said on Friday they were looking into two cases of death after receiving the BioNTech coronavirus vaccine. The first case involved a man, 43, with a history of hyperlipidaemia and obesity. He received a dose of the vaccine on Ap...

The government on Friday evening put a building in South Horizons in Ap Lei Chau on lockdown after a resident there came down with Covid-19 and the source of infection was not known. Residents of Yee Lai Court, or Block 10 of South Horizons, will un...

The legislator representing the catering sector, Tommy Cheung, said on Friday the government appears to be backing down on its decision to force all diners to use its LeaveHomeSafe app. The government has proposed once restaurant staff received thei...

The Foreign Ministry’s representative in Hong Kong has condemned the city's Foreign Correspondents' Club, as well as "external forces", for their "unwarranted" remarks about the conviction of investigative journalist Bao Choy. In a statement, the ...

A banker has pleaded not guilty to assaulting an off-duty police officer in December 2019, with his lawyer on Friday accusing the policeman of unnecessarily brandishing his baton before the alleged assault. Yu Shu-sang, the police officer who was al...

Beijing's national security agents are being given an 11,500 square metre harbourfront site for their first permanent base in Hong Kong. Since July last year, the Office for Safeguarding National Security (OSNS) has been operating out of the Metropa...

Health officials said on Friday that they may have found another person carrying a highly infectious coronavirus variant in the community. The patient was a domestic helper who arrived from the Philippines on March 27. Since moving into her emplo...

Four Central and Western district councillors were each fined HK$7,000 by Eastern Court on Friday, after they admitted to violating social distancing rules in Sai Ying Pun in August last year. Fergus Leung, Sam Yip, Jordan Pang and Napo Wong had bee...

The High Court on Friday handed down the stiffest sentence yet in connection with the 2019 protests, sending a member of a now-disbanded pro-independence group to prison for 12 years for possessing explosives. The judge said in some ways, the offen...

Police said on Friday that they had arrested a 25-year-old cat owner for allegedly making an online threat to poison dogs on the city's streets. Officers said the man was suspected of posting a message on Facebook falsely claiming he had left poiso...

People aged between 16 and 29 on Friday rushed to make appointments for Covid-19 vaccinations, after the government opened up the online booking platform for its inoculation programme to all adults. The Sinovac vaccine is now available for people ag...

Two officials from the Communications Authority are joining RTHK to provide “special support”, staff were told on Friday. The news came just days after a former director of administration started work as an "adviser to the director of broadcasti...

School pupils began sitting this year's Diploma of Secondary Education exams on Friday morning, filling out health declaration forms to be allowed into the exam venue. A secondary school in Yuen Long only allowed candidates sitting a visual arts exa...

Hong Kong's Foreign Correspondents' Club (FCC) on Friday published an open letter to Police Commissioner Chris Tang, seeking "urgent clarity" on his recent comments that the force would prosecute so-called "fake news". The club's letter, dated April...

The police say the pandemic may have prevented child abuse cases from being uncovered, as the force recorded a slight fall in the number of reports last year. The issue of child abuse has come under the spotlight recently, after a couple were senten...