Thousands of people put into quarantine are to be released early, as part of an overhaul of the way authorities handle Covid infections involving mutant strains, while quarantine periods in general will be cut for those who are fully vaccinated. Off...

Legislator after legislator on Friday warned the government it must watch out for the pro-democracy Professional Teachers' Union (PTU), making a series of claims against the body as it supports members struck off over protest-related complaints. Fro...

A public health expert at the University of Hong Kong says plans to reduce the quarantine period for vaccinated close contacts of Covid-19 patients are reasonable, as there's a lower chance of them being infected. In recent days, thousands of people...

A national security judge on Friday granted former Democratic Party chairman Wu Chi-wai permission to attend his father’s funeral, two days after his request was rejected by prison officials. Wu’s plea to be allowed to attend his father’s fune...

The head of the Confederation of Trade Unions, Mung Siu-tat, has called on the government to introduce quarantine leave for people put into isolation by health authorities, saying employees are having their pay deducted because they're unable to work...

Authorities put a public housing block in Chai Wan under lockdown from 9pm on Thursday, after a resident there tested preliminary positive for a mutant variant of the coronavirus. Residents of Fung Hing House in Hing Wah (II) Estate have been order...

Police from the national security department descended on a children's clothing shop in Tsuen Wan for investigation on Thursday. Officers were seen cordoning off the Chickeeduck store at Heung Shing Street at around 5pm and searched the premises fo...

An executive producer who headed renowned RTHK documentary programme, Hong Kong Connection, resigned on Thursday. Paul Lee reportedly quit after suggestions for new episodes on the 2019 Yuen Long mob attack and local commemorations of the Tiananmen...

A former official who previously set questions for the DSE history exam said this year's paper was much less challenging, after a controversial question on whether Japan did more good than harm to China from 1900 to 1945 was scrapped last year. On ...

Chinese University's student union says eight former executive members have been disqualified from various university committees. The representatives were part of the now-disbanded student cabinet, Syzygia, which resigned en masse in March followin...

Hong Kong DJ “Uncle” Ray Cordeiro announced on Thursday that he’ll be hanging up his headphones for good after his show on May 14, bringing to a close a career that has spanned seven decades. “As a DJ, I have a very strong bond with my liste...

Dozens of residents at a luxury block in Pok Fu Lam are fighting the authorities' order that they go into quarantine, according to one of the residents there. On Wednesday, officials demanded that everyone living in the Royalton building move to a q...

The Centre for Health Protection has issued a compulsory Covid-19 testing order for anyone who visited Deep Water Bay Beach on April 25 and May 1, as it tries to combat the spread of a more infectious strain of coronavirus. A variant with the N501Y ...

An RTHK documentary into the Yuen Long gang rampage in July 2019 won another award on Thursday, two weeks after one of its producers, Bao Choy, was convicted over her investigative work for the programme. There is also recognition in this year's Hum...

Secondary school students sitting a DSE history exam on Thursday told RTHK they would avoid any elective questions on China, just in case there's a repeat of the controversy that erupted last year. A question on the paper in 2020 – which asked whe...

Pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong and district councillors Lester Shum, Tiffany Yuen and Jannelle Leung were jailed for between four and 10 months on Thursday for taking part in a June 4 vigil that had been banned by the authorities. Wong received ...

University of Hong Kong microbiologist Ho Pak-leung on Thursday called on the police to investigate whether several people infected with a mutated strain of Covid-19 deliberately concealed their movements around the territory, hampering efforts to tr...

Health authorities on Thursday said they had found no new infections, after testing some 460 residents of Block R of Allway Gardens in Tsuen Wan. The residents have all now been quarantined for 21 days after a recently-arrived foreign domestic helper...

Health authorities on Wednesday said their latest investigation found how a mutated strain of coronavirus has possibly spread in Hong Kong. The Centre for Health Protection found a possible link between the infection of a man who flew in from Dubai ...

Former Democratic Party lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting and eight other victims of the Yuen Long mob attack on July 21, 2019 have decided to drop a civil suit against Police Commissioner Chris Tang. Lam and other people injured in the gang rampage filed a l...