An evacuation of a residential building in Tsuen Wan over a coronavirus scare on Wednesday sparked uproar among residents angry about what they said were chaotic and confusing arrangements. More than 220 households in Block R of Allway Gardens were...

Former RTHK producer Bao Choy says she is appealing against her conviction in connection with a documentary on the 2019 Yuen Long gang attack, saying she wouldn't be able to sleep at night if she didn't. The freelance journalist was fined HK$6,000 l...

A concern group for foreign domestic workers on Wednesday called on the government to withdraw its mandatory testing order for all helpers, as it also demanded an apology from Labour Secretary Law Chi-kwong for his “discriminatory” remarks agains...

Prison officials have defended their decision to refuse to allow Wu Chi-wai to attend his father's funeral by saying they have to ensure the safety of their officers, the public and Wu himself. In a statement, they said various factors had been take...

Health officials say residents from two apartment blocks in Quarry Bay and Pok Fu Lam will be sent to quarantine for 21 days after two domestic helpers were confirmed to have contracted a highly infectious strain of the coronavirus. The Centre for H...

A specialist in respiratory medicine has cast doubt on the government’s plan to relax quarantine requirements for people flying back to Hong Kong who are fully vaccinated against coronavirus. Leung Chi-chiu said on Wednesday that such a move woul...

A DNA specialist on Wednesday said Hong Kong could consider capping the number of people allowed to return to the city, to prevent imported coronavirus cases. Dr Gilman Siu from the Department of Health Technology and Informatics at Polytechnic Uni...

Residents of two buildings in Quarry Bay and Pok Fu Lam began taking Covid-19 tests on Wednesday morning after two suspected cases of a more infectious strain were found in the blocks. People living in block N2 of Kornhill in Quarry Bay and Royalto...

The government said on Tuesday that its flight ban on the United Kingdom and Ireland could be lifted on Friday - if the coronavirus situation in the two countries and in Hong Kong "remains largely unchanged". The ban on passenger flights to Hong Ko...

A group of former marine police officers are trying to save Hong Kong's last ‘dai fei’ – one of the notorious armour plated speedboats used in cross border smuggling before and around the time of the handover. One such ‘dai fei’ captured b...

Health Secretary Sophia Chan said on Tuesday that the government is planning to shorten the quarantine period for fully vaccinated people who fly back to Hong Kong. Chan told lawmakers at a meeting of Legco’s health services panel that experts had...

Hundreds of people living in Allway Gardens in Tsuen Wan are being sent to quarantine after a resident there tested positive for a mutated strain of coronavirus. The 48-year-old woman, who is a migrant domestic worker, was among four new confirmed p...

A woman was on Tuesday jailed for 30 months for assaulting her two children by pouring boiling water over them. The 37-year-old, who was not named in the District Court so as to protect the identity of her children, had earlier pleaded guilty. Sh...

A coroner’s jury has called for staffing levels to be increased at homes for people with disabilities, after ruling that the death of a teenager who fell from a Kwai Chung home was accidental. The 14-year-old boy, who had a moderate intellectual ...

The Civil Human Rights Front said on Tuesday that it will not comply with police demands that it hand over information on its finances and activities, as the force probes whether the pro-democracy group should be outlawed. Police had accused the fro...

West Kowloon Magistracy has issued warrants for the arrest of three people charged with protest-related offences, after they failed to attend a hearing on Tuesday morning. The trio are among 21 people aged between 17 and 41 who are accused of helpi...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday that the government has not actually made up its mind on whether to go ahead with its plan to require all foreign domestic workers to be vaccinated against coronavirus in the future. The plan was announced ...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam has insisted that there is no "new role" for RTHK and it is still Hong Kong's public broadcaster, amid fears the station is being transformed into a government mouthpiece. On Monday, the station began deleting some of its ...

An infectious disease specialist has called on people to get tested if they've been to a Tung Chung mall on or after April 11, after authorities confirmed that three patients infected with a highly contagious variant of Covid-19 had visited the place...

An employers group on Tuesday said it hopes the government will allow more time for migrant domestic workers to get tested for Covid-19. Helpers usually have only one day off a week, and were given nine days to take a test, as the government tries ...