The High Court said on Thursday that the prosecution’s interpretation of a “terrorist act” is too wide when it comes to the case against the first person charged under Hong Kong's national security law. A day after the law came into effect las...

Some restaurants are opting out of the looser social distancing restrictions on offer from Thursday, saying they're not worth the trouble, or they simply can't comply with them. Restaurants whose staff are vaccinated and whose customers use the gove...

Research by the University of Hong Kong on Thursday suggested that boredom brought about the coronavirus pandemic helped pushed a record number of young smokers into trying out electronic cigarettes. The university's Faculty of Medicine says the pan...

The Audit Commission on Thursday responded to a public attack by the Immigration Department by urging the disciplined service to start abiding by government rules. The spending watchdog said immigration officials had breached a government requiremen...

The Immigration Department has reacted with fury to a report by the Audit Commission recommending that a backlog of suspected bogus marriage cases be cleared up, ridiculing the watchdog for what it says is its ill-informed criticism. Aside from atta...

The United States said on Thursday it was "deeply concerned" by a new Hong Kong immigration law which includes powers to stop people leaving the city, raising fears mainland-style exit bans could be deployed there. The law was passed on Wednesday by...

Police say they will launch a new app next month that will enable frontline police officers to verify a person’s ID more quickly, as they will no longer have to verify the information with colleagues in the office. The force said officers will be...

Hong Kong's bars, karaokes and other entertainment venues are now free to open up again after months of closure, and restaurants can extend their services, but some businesses say they'll have to remain shut as they work out how to comply with the va...

The government says it may terminate the contract of BGI – the mainland laboratory that was recently involved in Covid testing blunders – if it is found to have committed serious mistakes. In a statement, the authorities also said it may take th...

Veteran democrat and former journalist, Emily Lau, says the government needs to reassure the public that an immigration bill passed by lawmakers on Wednesday won't be used to prevent people leaving Hong Kong. The bill targets illegal immigrants and g...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Wednesday added another credential to her long career as a government official – this time as a TV presenter for the public broadcaster RTHK. The first two pre-recorded episodes of her programme, "Get to Know the Elec...

A couple who say they were needlessly forced to go into quarantine are planning to demand compensation from the government, citing reports that the Covid-19 case they were connected to was actually a false positive. They were among some 50 staff and...

The Correctional Services Department (CSD) has complained of overcrowding at two of its detention centres, with the number of people remanded in custody hitting a decade high due to a spike in arrests made over the 2019 anti-government protests. In ...

Calls for an end to one-party rule in China could be illegal – or they might not be – but in any case there is no one-party rule, a former justice secretary told Hongkongers on Wednesday. Elsie Leung, who's also a former deputy of Beijing's Basi...

Around a dozen residents of a Yuen Long village were in a brief standoff with authorities on Wednesday before officers evicted all of them to make way for a public housing development. Most people had already moved out of Fung Chi Tsuen in Wang Cha...

A woman who admits assaulting her children by pouring boiling water over them has pleaded for leniency in court, saying she had been under enormous stress as her husband never helped look after the youngsters. The woman, 37, was not named in the Dis...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan said on Wednesday that the GDP for the first quarter in the year will show "pretty strong growth", but warned that unemployment rate will probably remain high until cross-border travel resumes. A formal announcement on...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Wednesday that the government is determined to improve national education in Hong Kong, in part to make sure that Beijing's beneficial policies towards the SAR don't go to waste. At a question and answer session in...

Legco on Wednesday passed a controversial immigration bill, which lawyers, diplomats and rights groups fear will give authorities unlimited powers to prevent residents and others from entering or leaving the territory. The government has dismissed t...

The Audit Commission on Wednesday called on the Immigration Department to clear a backlog of bogus marriage cases in Hong Kong. A report by the public spending watchdog said as of December 2020, there were 2,237 outstanding suspected bogus marriage ...