The Hong Kong Bar Association on Saturday condemned intimidation against a district judge, saying such action cannot be tolerated and must be stopped. It was reported that the office of District Court Judge Amanda Woodcock received a few threatenin...

Hong Kong recorded a single imported Covid-19 case on Saturday – extending a run without any locally acquired coronavirus infections into a fourth day. Health authorities said the imported case involves a 42-year-old woman who had arrived from Ind...

The Appeal Board on Public Meetings and Processions on Saturday upheld the police force’s ban on the annual June 4 candlelight vigil at Victoria Park, citing risks of Covid-19 infection. The board said the number of coronavirus cases has not come...

Chief Justice Andrew Cheung said on Saturday that senior counsels have a responsibility to speak up not only in defence of judicial independence, but also to defend the judiciary’s reputation. At a ceremony for the admission of four new silks, the...

The Health Secretary, Sophia Chan, said on Saturday that she was happy to see more businesses offering incentives to encourage people to get vaccinated against Covid-19. This comes as two property developers announced they were putting up a flat wo...

The government says it won't tolerate any attempts to threaten judges, and warned that police are investigating an intimidation attempt. In a statement issued late on Friday, it said that a judge "has received intimidation", but didn't give details ...

Customs officers said on Friday they have made the largest seizure of illicit cigarettes in the past two decades with an estimated market value of about HK$90 million. Authorities also said smugglers have changed tack because of the pandemic. Offic...

Local property developers are putting up a flat worth nearly HK$11 million as the top prize in a lucky draw aimed at boosting the city’s dismal vaccination rate. The prize, a HK$10.8 million one-bedroom flat at the Sino Group’s Grand Central dev...

A Hong Kong man who received three doses of coronavirus vaccine has a very high antibody level against Covid-19, medical experts said on Friday. However, they added that they can't determine whether or not this positive discovery is down to him rece...

Hong Kong on Friday reported zero confirmed Covid-19 cases for a second day in a row. It’s the first time since last June that the city has booked consecutive days without any local or imported infections of the coronavirus. But a microbiology pr...

The Chief Executive on Friday appointed barrister Priscilla Wong as the new chairperson of the Independent Police Complaints Council (IPCC), for a term of two years from June 1. Wong is also the wife of executive councillor and the convenor of the ...

Hong Kong's newest MTR line will be fully operational from June 27, the government announced on Friday. While part of the Tuen Ma Line opened last year, the latest extension will see the opening of two new stations, To Kwa Wan and Sung Wong Toi. Th...

Some of Hong Kong's most prominent democracy campaigners were given new prison terms on Friday, this time over an unauthorised protest on October 1, 2019. Former legislators Albert Ho, Lee Cheuk-yan and Leung Kwok-hung and Civil Human Rights Front c...

A student was jailed for four years and three months on Friday for rioting during Hong Kong's social unrest two years ago. Lee Ho-ming, 21, was found guilty earlier this month by the District Court after taking part in a “liberate Tuen Mun Parkâ€...

A former Medical Association president says he doubts any Hongkongers who trained overseas as doctors would want to come back and work in the SAR under a new government policy, saying the social status of doctors has diminished in light of the recent...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has accused Beijing of continuing to undermine democratic institutions in Hong Kong and called on central government and SAR authorities to release and drop charges against everyone charged under the national secu...

The Hospital Authority Employees Alliance said on Thursday night that it has been warned by film censors over its screening of two movies related to the June 4, 1989, crackdown in Beijing. In a social media post, the union said staff from the Offic...

The Centre for Health Protection on Thursday reported no new Covid cases, either local or imported, for the first time since October last year, as Hong Kong continued to keep its coronavirus situation under control. But an infectious disease specia...

Britain has received far more applications for visas from Hong Kong than from the European Union after a new system opened up for residents in the former British colony and post-Brexit rules kicked in, a report said on Thursday. There were 34,000 a...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Thursday thanked lawmakers for their "tireless" efforts in passing the electoral reform bill at lightning speed, her colleagues for putting it all together and the public for their "support", while also acknowledging tha...