The government says it will recognise 10 different coronavirus vaccines for Hong Kong residents to be allowed shorter quarantine periods when they return from overseas. From Wednesday, the quarantine period will be cut from 14 days to seven for full...

Hong Kong parents say their children are exercising less and getting fatter, as they spend more time at home than usual because of the pandemic. Researchers at Chinese University and the Jockey Club in February polled 825 parents of primary school c...

Former home affairs chief Patrick Ho has had his doctor's licence suspended for a year by the Medical Council in light of his bribery convictions in the US in 2018. Following a disciplinary hearing on Tuesday, which Ho and his lawyers did not atten...

Hong Kong has recorded no new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases for a fourth consecutive day. The Centre for Health Protection reported just one imported coronavirus case on Tuesday, involving a woman who recently flew in from Indonesia. As infec...

The government was on Tuesday urged to outline a plan on how to use the streaming of the upcoming Tokyo Olympics to promote sports development in Hong Kong. This came after Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced that her administration has purchased t...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Tuesday apologised to thousands of Hong Kong people who were recently quarantined because infections involving mutant Covid strains were found in their buildings, admitting that the conditions they were kept in were "not...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam says the government has purchased the broadcasting rights to the upcoming Tokyo Olympics, and Hong Kong people will be able to watch the games for free on the territory’s five licensed broadcasters. However, government ...

The government has dropped its plan to make migrant domestic workers get Covid vaccinations, Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday, but another compulsory test will soon be ordered. Officials had announced that helpers would be required to be v...

Prosecutors in the case against Hong Kong's first national security suspect on Monday defended their decision to deny him a trial by jury, saying this is not a constitutional right in the territory. Tong Ying-kit, 24, is charged with terrorism and i...

Most Hong Kong women don’t want to give birth, a non-profit group said on Monday, with respondents to its survey saying they didn’t have enough money, space or time to raise a child. A survey from the Hong Kong Women Development Association foun...

The jury at an inquest into the death of a protester was disbanded just hours after the hearing began on Monday, when one of the five jurors told the court she couldn’t fully understand Cantonese. Coroner David Ko said he would resume the hearing ...

A man linked to a small outbreak of a mutant strain of coronavirus in Hong Kong was remanded in custody on Monday, after being arrested at the weekend on suspicion of lying to health authorities. The 30-year-old, who arrived in the SAR from Dubai i...

Lawmakers on Monday gave their backing to a government proposal to expand the Legislative Council complex, to accommodate more members added to the body through Beijing’s electoral overhaul. Legco will grow from 70 members to 90 following this Dec...

Andrew Wan on Monday resigned as a district councillor, the latest pro-democracy figure to throw in the towel while behind bars awaiting trial. Wan is one of scores of people accused of breaching the national security law by holding primary polls t...

People recently released from Penny's Bay quarantine camp as part of the government's policy reversal have spoken of their horror at the conditions inside, saying they were left without basic necessities, couldn't seek medical care, and were poisoned...

Microbiologist Siddharth Sridhar on Monday said it was "lucky" that there had not been an outbreak of a more infectious strain of Covid-19 in Hong Kong, but added authorities must keep a close eye on the situation. The University of Hong Kong exper...

Hong Kong is experiencing the “worst of both worlds” with relaxed quarantine policies for some people but no increase in vaccine uptake, a public health expert said on Monday, as he called for more incentives for people to get inoculated against ...

The government has thanked the hundreds of thousands of foreign domestic helpers who took a compulsory Covid-19 test, ahead of Sunday's deadline. The order, seen by some as discriminatory, was made late last month to combat a mutated variant cluste...

Two in five teachers say they are contemplating leaving the education sector, with many citing increasing political pressure as a major reason. That’s the finding of a survey conducted by the pro-democracy Professional Teachers' Union, which poll...

After an initial rush to get tested for the coronavirus, few foreign helpers were seen at testing centres on Sunday – the deadline for a mandatory testing order for all migrant domestic workers. Hong Kong's 370,000 helpers were given nine days t...