Police have arrested a 36-year-old man on suspicion of drug trafficking after seizing about 100 kilograms of cocaine worth about $134 million. Officers at a press briefing on Sunday said they apprehended the suspect outside a village house in Pak S...

Health officials on Sunday reported a second consecutive day of zero locally-acquired Covid-19 infections, as thousands of foreign domestic workers queued-up on their weekly rest day for mandatory coronavirus tests ordered by the government. The cit...

The Society for Community Organisation (Soco) on Sunday urged the government to provide support for unemployed and underemployed grassroots families, who they said were among those suffering the most from the economic impact of the pandemic. People ...

The Travel Industry Council said on Sunday that flights between Hong Kong and Singapore have been fully booked for the first two weeks following the scheduled launch of a travel bubble between the two places on May 26. The council’s chairman, Jas...

Executive Councillor Ronny Tong has called on the government to set up an office to combat fake news and improve communication with the public. Speaking on RTHK's Letter to Hong Kong, Tong said lies and misinformation were the biggest challenge to ...

Government advisers say tests show a mutated Covid strain must have spread silently from a returnee from Dubai to a foreign domestic helper in Tung Chung, after researchers confirmed that both were carrying an identical variant first identified in So...

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 university management to continue to communicate and cooperate with the st...

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...