Health authorities reported no new Covid-19 cases on Thursday, the second time this month that Hong Kong has seen no fresh infections. The Centre for Health Protection added that there are fewer than five preliminary positive cases for the day. Ho...

Lingnan University’s students’ union accused the institution of suppression on Thursday, after it announced it will no longer collect membership fees on behalf of the student body. The university said it came to the decision after receiving comp...

The Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) says the past year was the worst ever for press freedom in the territory, with Apple Daily forced to close and the industry facing "increasing threats" from the authorities. Releasing its annual report ti...

Hong Kong needs to fix its "negative image", Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Thursday, as she complained that some people are driving others away from the city. At a Legco question and answer session, lawmakers repeatedly asked Lam when the borde...

Carrie Lam says the government is considering whether to require more government workers to get vaccinated against Covid-19, or face compulsory tests at their own expense. At a Legco question and answer session on Thursday, Lam said Hong Kong has m...

Customs officers say for the first time they have broken up a suspected money laundering syndicate involving cryptocurrency, arresting four men believed to be linked to the case. Authorities said they started their investigation after noticing susp...

Relief may be on the way for Hong Kong families struggling to hire foreign domestic workers, as authorities are reportedly ironing out a plan to allow fully vaccinated helpers to come to the SAR to work – as early as next month. That’s accordin...

People travelling to the United Kingdom from Hong Kong will not have to quarantine from Monday, after the UK government early on Thursday moved the SAR to its so-called Covid green list for travel. Under the latest rules, travellers from Hong Kong w...

Labour and Welfare Secretary Law Chi-kwong said on Wednesday that the government could not keep funding the ailing tourism industry – with no end in sight to the pandemic – leading to fears of more job losses in the sector. Speaking on a radio p...

A Chinese University professor specialising in communication studies on Wednesday challenged testimony presented at the trial of national security suspect Tong Ying-kit by the prosecution’s expert witness, saying historian Lau Chi-pang failed to se...

Hong Kong on Wednesday reported three imported Covid-19 cases – from Namibia, Cyprus and Ghana. All of them carry the potentially more contagious L452R variant of the coronavirus. The Centre for Health Protection said one of the patients, a 53-y...

A democracy activist known as "Grandma Wong" was sentenced to one month in prison on Wednesday, after a magistrate convicted her of attacking a security guard at the High Court in January 2019. Eastern Magistracy found Alexandra Wong, 65, guilty of...

Yuen Long district councillor Ben Ho announced his resignation on Wednesday, hours after he was arrested, with authorities saying they would charge him with attempted criminal intimidation over a post on his Facebook page. Officers said they receiv...

The authorities say there is no specific intelligence suggesting Hong Kong is likely to be the target of terrorists, even though they foiled an alleged bomb plot just last week. The last terrorist incident in Hong Kong occurred less than a fortnight...

Security minister Chris Tang on Wednesday offered a new defence for three senior officials who violated social distancing rules by attending a dinner at an exclusive private club in March, saying the trio had sacrificed precious time with their famil...

A District Court judge said a man who directed people to launch mob attacks at Yuen Long MTR Station on July 21, 2019, will receive a heavier punishment than others who took part, as seven defendants finished their mitigation pleas ahead of sentencin...

The Consumer Council warned on Wednesday that reduced-fat milk could contain twice as much fat as low-fat milk, saying customers should read nutrition labels carefully. The watchdog said it had recently tested 40 milk products – with around 10 of ...

The Hong Kong Book Fair returned on Wednesday, after the coronavirus pandemic put paid to efforts to hold the annual event in 2020, but there were noticeably fewer political books on sale with exhibitors wary of falling foul of the national security ...

A former student representative of the University of Hong Kong's governing council on Wednesday questioned how the institution can unilaterally decide it no longer recognises the students' union, warning the move could lead to a "constitutional crisi...

New People's Party chairwoman Regina Ip says she doesn’t understand why people who would like to be members of the Election Committee (EC) would be upset about having to say whether or not they hold foreign passports. Ip and other lawmakers and l...