Commerce Secretary Edward Yau said on Wednesday that Hong Kong remains an attractive place for foreign firms to do business, even though a survey suggests many expats are losing interest in the city. Yau made the comment after the American Chamber ...

Justice Johnson Lam, a vice-president of the Court of Appeal, is set to become a permanent judge of the city’s top court – filling a position that has been vacant for the past four months. Justice Lam’s appointment to the Court of Final Appeal...

A police monitor group said on Wednesday that the force must be "embarrassed" that one of its top national security officers has reportedly been caught up in a raid on an unlicensed massage parlour. Sources told RTHK that senior assistant commission...

The head of Hong Kong’s sports school has called on the government to consider purchasing the broadcasting rights to future Olympics, after officials made the “unprecedented” decision to do so for the upcoming Tokyo games. Despite the price ta...

RTHK understands that a senior police officer in the force's new national security department has been placed on leave pending investigation for alleged misconduct. Sources say Frederic Choi, a senior assistant commissioner who holds the rank of dir...

The testing firm, BGI, said on Tuesday it's offering fewer Covid-19 tests for now after another yet blunder, this time involving wrong SMS messages sent to people who were tested. The hiccup involved 14 people who gave saliva samples at a public cli...

The government is proposing to introduce laws to curb doxxing, with offenders facing a maximum fine of HK$1 million and imprisonment of up to five years. Officials have been considering new laws to tackle privacy infringement with police officers an...

A Hong Kong reporter with a newspaper that is critical of Beijing said on Tuesday that she had been attacked by a baseball bat-wielding man near her home in Ho Man Tin. The alleged assault on the Epoch Times journalist came almost exactly a month af...

Police Commissioner Chris Tang warned on Tuesday that publishing "fake news" could amount to a breach of the national security law, saying his officers will be forced to respond if reports "incite hatred and divide society". "Whether a piece is cons...

An NGO and a Hong Kong church leader on Tuesday called on the government to provide asylum seekers with free coronavirus vaccines. There are around 13,000 asylum seekers in Hong Kong, according to the Security Bureau, but they aren't eligible for va...

The coroner’s court looking into the death of an anti-government protester was told on Tuesday that his family was absent from the inquest because they had left Hong Kong several weeks after he fell to his death from an Admiralty mall in 2019. Imm...

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...