The student union of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) on Saturday said it is “deeply regrettable” that the university has unilaterally severed ties with it. It called on school management to continue to communicate and cooperate with the studen...

Foreign domestic helpers say they're concerned and aggrieved at the government's plan to require vaccination before they can renew their visa, as many used their Labour Day holiday to take a mandatory coronavirus test. The government on Friday ord...

Police say they have arrested five teenagers, the youngest just 14, in connection with the theft of two gold bracelets worth HK$56,000 from a jewellery shop in Tai Po on Thursday. Officers say the group, aged between 14 and 17, study at four differe...

Health Secretary Sophia Chan on Saturday dismissed suggestions that the government is stigmatising foreign domestic helpers after ordering some 370,000 of them to take Covid-19 tests. Officials made the order after two helpers were diagnosed with a ...

Two more teachers have been disqualified over complaints sparked by the social unrest in 2019, raising the total number to four. And for the first time, a teacher from a government school has been struck off. The liberal studies teacher, who is und...

The government on Friday evening ended its compulsory Covid-19 testing exercise at Tower 11 of Carmel Cove at the Caribbean Coast residential estate in Tung Chung. The huge 52-storey block had been sealed off on Thursday evening, after a domestic h...

A migrant workers advocacy group on Friday branded as "very, very unjust" the government's plan to make it a requirement in future for foreign domestic workers to be vaccinated against Covid, and an order for all helpers to take tests in the next nin...

Veteran pollsters from the Public Opinion Research Institute (PORI) vowed on Friday to keep offering a platform for Hongkongers to express their views and provide critical commentaries, despite rapid changes to what they called a “degrading society...

Authorities have ordered Hong Kong's hundreds of thousands of foreign domestic workers to get coronavirus tests before May 9, following the discovery of an untraceable mutant strain in the community. The government also said on Friday that it is pla...

Prosecutors have pressed a new charge against nine Hongkongers who were detained in Shenzhen after an alleged failed attempt to flee to Taiwan by speedboat, accusing them of perverting the course of justice. The defendants are Cheung Chun-fu, Cheung...

The government has introduced several amendments to its bill to pave the way for an overhaul of Hong Kong's electoral system, including expanding a candidate-screening committee to bring in "community leaders". The administration tabled the bill to ...

The University of Hong Kong says it has severed ties with its students' union, accusing it of using the campus as a "platform for political propaganda", undermining the institution's interests and tarnishing its reputation. In a public statement an...

Long queues have formed outside testing stations in Tung Chung, after a resident of the area was found to have caught a mutated strain of the coronavirus via an unknown local source. Mandatory testing notices have been issued for people who have vis...

Nine pro-democracy figures on Friday lost appeals against their convictions for taking part in the 2014 Occupy protests. In 2019, Benny Tai, Chan Kin-man, Raphael Wong and Shiu Ka-chun were jailed for between eight and 16 months on public nuisance c...

Four pro-democracy figures on Friday pleaded guilty to taking part in an unauthorised assembly on June 4 last year in Victoria Park. Activist Joshua Wong and district councillors Lester Shum, Tiffany Yuen and Jannelle Leung are among 24 pro-democrac...

RTHK has axed another episode of the television programme Hong Kong Connection, this time a documentary on online media in the territory. The show focused on two outlets – Citizen News and Hong Kong Free Press – and whether they could finance t...

The head of an industry group said on Friday that about 70 percent of restaurants are sticking to the previous Covid-19 restrictions despite a government move to ease the rules for businesses whose staff are vaccinated. However Simon Wong, who leads...

Hong Kong has banned all flights from Nepal and barred travellers who've been to the country within the past two weeks from entering the SAR as concern continues over mutated strains of Covid-19. Officials announced late on Thursday that, from Satur...

Bars in party hotspot Lan Kwai Fong welcomed customers again on Thursday from a monthslong shutdown, but they had to turn away some patrons under new vaccination and Covid app requirements ordered by the government. A few customers in their 20s wer...

In the first case of its kind in Hong Kong, a domestic helper from the Philippines has caught a mutated strain of the coronavirus, N501Y, via an unknown local source. The infection of the helper, 39, forced on Thursday evening the evacuation of a re...