The host of a popular RTHK radio programme, Tsang Chi-ho, said on Friday he’s been sacked by the government broadcaster with immediate effect. RTHK neither confirmed nor denied the claim, saying only that the station conducts regular reviews of i...

The Centre for Health Protection on Friday reported three imported coronavirus cases. Two involved domestic helpers from Indonesia, with one of them found to have the L452R mutant strain of coronavirus. The third new patient, a seaman from Cyprus...

The District Court on Friday found five men guilty of wounding and rioting, for their parts in the indiscriminate mob attacks on people in Yuen Long on July 21, 2019. The court heard that the defendants – Wong Ying-kit, Tang Wai-sum, Ng Wai-nam, T...

The government announced on Friday that the first of its planned vouchers for all adult residents will be dished out from August 1, as part of its efforts to boost local spending. While people can get up to HK$5,000, the money will come in instalmen...

Police say they have charged two of the five Apple Daily executives arrested on Thursday with the offence of colluding with a foreign country or external elements to endanger national security. The force's national security department said two men, ...

Former pro-democracy lawmaker Tanya Chan was on Friday found not guilty of breaching public gatherings rules by going to a bar for a meeting in April last year. More than 10 other people were inside the premises in Mong Kok. Kowloon City Magistracy...

Pro-Beijing lawmaker Paul Tse on Friday dismissed concerns about the retroactive effect of the national security law, saying the police may need to look back at actions that occurred prior to the law being introduced in order to establish patterns or...

Apple Daily supporters rushed to buy copies of the newspaper on Friday – a day after the authorities arrested five of the media outlet’s senior executives, raided its offices and newsroom, and froze assets worth millions of dollars. The newspap...

The United States on Thursday strongly condemned the arrest of five executives of pro-democracy Hong Kong tabloid Apple Daily and its parent company and suggested the action was politically motivated. Police carried out the raid on Thursday morning ...

Apple Daily says it is planning a print-run of up to 500,000 for Friday, the day after national security police arrested its editor-in-chief Ryan Law and four other senior executives. The pro-democracy newspaper's offices in Tseung Kwan O were also r...

The Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong on Thursday hit out at foreign politicians and western media who have been critical of the police raid on the offices of the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, and the a...

The UK and the EU have criticised the arrests of five Apple Daily executives - and the police raid on the pro-democracy newspaper's offices in Tseung Kwan O on Thursday morning. The paper's editor-in-chief, Ryan Law, was among the five. Britain said...

Hong Kong's unemployment rate has dropped to its lowest level in a year, falling to six percent in the three months to the end of May, down from 6.4 percent. Government figures show the SAR's jobless rate has fallen gradually since reaching a 16-yea...

Comments by Hong Kong’s security chief about national security-related arrests at the Apple Daily are “ominous”, a University of Hong Kong journalism lecturer said on Thursday, warning they could pave the way for tighter government regulation o...

The government will from next month start giving out up to HK$3,900 a month to families who have been on the waiting list for a public housing flat for more than three years. The scheme was announced by Chief Executive Carrie Lam in her latest polic...

A patients' rights activist on Thursday urged the government to release more details about cases where people receive compensation after suffering complications from Covid-19 jabs. A HK$1 billion fund set up for the purpose has so far received 74 ap...

Apple Daily on Thursday vowed to fight on despite another police raid and the arrest of several senior executives, saying staff will "loyally defend their posts". In a letter to readers, the newspaper said every one of its journalists has reported ...

Prosecutors on Thursday withdrew a charge against a Ta Kung Pao reporter over improper car plate searches he allegedly carried out last year. Wong Kai-keung, 47, was instead put on a good behaviour bond for a year in the sum of HK$2,000, and was or...

A legal scholar from the University of Hong Kong said on Thursday that he doesn’t believe sharing articles from Apple Daily or buying copies of the newspaper will constitute an offence under the national security law – although authorities have d...

The chairman of the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA), Chris Yeung, has described the police's raid of Apple Daily on Thursday as "shocking" and "scary", accusing the authorities of trying to intimidate the newspaper's supporters by warning th...