The government on Wednesday ordered residents in an extensive area in Tai Po to get tested for Covid-19, after a very high viral load is detected in sewage samples collected there. The compulsory testing order covers more than 30 buildings at resid...

The Centre for Health Protection reported two new imported Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, as Hong Kong extended its streak of no local infections to 16 days. One of the patients is a domestic helper who flew in from Indonesia and was undergoing quaran...

Apple Daily says the last edition of the paper will roll off the presses on Thursday – three days earlier than expected. The online edition will stop updating after Wednesday midnight. In a report published online on Wednesday afternoon, the pa...

Prosecutors of the city’s first national security suspect have told the High Court that a protest flag the man flew displayed a slogan that "connotes Hong Kong independence". The suspect, Tong Ying-kit, allegedly drove his motorcycle into police o...

An infectious disease expert on Wednesday urged the government put the UK back on a list of very high-risk countries and quarantine arrivals from there for 21 days even if they are vaccinated against Covid-19. Microbiologist Ho Pak-leung from the Un...

Police said on Wednesday that they had arrested a 55-year-old man in connection with an on-going national security probe linked to the pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper. He was being detained on suspicion of conspiracy to collude with a foreign co...

An online magazine under the troubled Next Digital company announced on Wednesday that it will fold after authorities froze the firm's assets, leaving it unable to sustain daily operations or pay staff salaries. The latest development comes after th...

The trial for the city's first national security suspect takes place at the High Court on Wednesday. The case has focused attention on the controversial security laws, which critics say curtail individual rights and freedom of speech. Tong Ying-kit...

A media lecturer says it will be hard for another newspaper to fill the void left by Apple Daily, should the pro-democracy paper fold as expected in the coming days, after authorities froze its funds under the national security law. Several senior ...

The new chairwoman of the Independent Police Complaints Council (IPCC), Priscilla Wong, ended her first press briefing on Tuesday without answering reporters' questions. She said she was in a hurry to attend another event. Wong, a pro-Beijing barri...

The High Court on Tuesday granted bail to another of the 47 people facing a subversion charge for taking part in the pro-democracy camp’s Legco primaries last year. Owen Chow, 24, was released on a cash bail of HK$50,000 and a surety of another H...

Health officials reported seven new imported Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, as Hong Kong notched up 15 days in a row with no local infections. Six of the new patients were domestic helpers arriving from Indonesia, four of whom carried the L452R mutated ...

Apple Daily halted more of its services on Tuesday, just a day after warning that the media outlet's entire operations could come to an end by the weekend. A brief message on the newspaper's English-language web pages said: "This concludes the updat...

The first person in Hong Kong charged under the national security law, Tong Ying-kit, on Tuesday lost another legal challenge against the secretary for justice’s decision to deny him a trial by jury – with the Court of Appeal upholding a lower co...

As Carrie Lam ended her weekly press briefing on Tuesday, an Apple Daily reporter shouted what would probably have been his final questions to the chief executive, with the newspaper facing imminent closure being as its assets are frozen under the na...

Carrie Lam has accused the United States of "beautifying" acts that endanger national security with its criticism of the Hong Kong authorities' crackdown on Apple Daily, saying the territory's national security law must be enforced. The chief execut...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Tuesday reiterated that there is no exact science behind the government’s decision to keep in place a ban on public gatherings of more than four people under newly eased social distancing rules, while allowing up to 18...

Police have arrested a 40-year-old man for allegedly uttering seditious words, after they received a report that a "Liberate Hong Kong" flag was hung on the laundry rack outside his flat in Mong Kok. Officers say they received a report from a passe...

The lawmaker representing the tourism sector, Yiu Si-wing, on Tuesday said the government should compensate quarantine hotels for their losses caused by a change in quarantine rules expected to take effect in July. Chief Executive Carrie Lam announ...

Epidemiologist Benjamin Cowling has urged the government to set out what level of antibodies arrivals to Hong Kong will need to qualify for a reduced quarantine period, and whether those who've received mainland vaccine Sinovac will be able to pass t...