Police on Sunday arrested a 45-year-old man over an incident in Tsim Sha Tsui, in which he allegedly ripped a parking meter from the metal pole it sits atop before dumping it into a nearby alleyway. Officers said the man had been drinking, and had b...

Health authorities recorded two imported Covid-19 infections on Sunday, involving a 75-year-old man who flew in from the United States and a 25-year-old woman who arrived from Bangladesh. The 75-year-old had both doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine...

Police chief Raymond Siu said on Sunday that some University of Hong Kong students may have breached the national security law by thanking a suspect who stabbed a policeman before killing himself on July 1. The university's students' union council h...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan on Sunday said Hong Kong’s unemployment rate will drop below six percent – its lowest level in more than a year – as the city’s economic situation continues to improve. The jobless rate peaked at 7.2 percent at ...

Civil Service Secretary Patrick Nip said on Sunday that the government was studying whether to allow some elderly people to get the Covid-19 vaccine without first making a booking. Nip, who's in charge of the city’s vaccination programme, said les...

Hong Kong’s “All The Crows In The World” on Sunday took home the award for best short film at the prestigious Cannes film festival. The 14-minute long movie from director Tang Yi draws on an experience she had as a teenager, and tells the stor...

Health authorities on Saturday reported no new Covid-19 infections. But it's understood there are still some preliminary positive cases, thought to number fewer than five. The Centre for Health Protection said a total of 18 cases had been detected o...

Beijing and Hong Kong officials on Saturday hit back at the US government in a series of strident statements for imposing sanctions on Chinese officials over Beijing's national security crackdown on Hong Kong, while adding that US warnings about the ...

A Kowloon City magistrate on Saturday sentenced a reporter to 240 hours of community service for resisting a police officer, after she had mistakenly suspended the defendant's prison sentence last month. Reporter Ho Ka-yan, who works for the online ...

A government advisor on Covid vaccines said on Saturday that those with weak immune systems may be able to get booster jabs in future. Wallace Lau, the convenor of an advisory panel on Covid-19 jabs, told a radio programme that experts would be meet...

Carrie Lam on Saturday said Hong Kong's Chief Executive shouldn't be subject to, what she called, excessive legal restrictions and public accountability, otherwise the special constitutional status of the post would be undermined. Lam was defending...

The American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong (AmCham) says the city has a crucial role to play as an international business hub and that the chamber is well aware of the increasingly complicated geopolitical environment and its risks. AmCham issued...

The government accused the United States of having a hidden agenda and of fear-mongering after Washington imposed sanctions on Liaison Office officials and issued a business advisory warning businesses about the risks posed by the National Security L...

The United States imposed sanctions on Friday on seven officials over Beijing's crackdown on democracy in Hong Kong, Washington's latest effort to hold China accountable for what it calls an erosion of rule of law in the city. The sanctions target ...

Local publishers on Friday insisted that they would not stop selling books that have attracted national security complaints at the ongoing fair in Wan Chai, despite receiving warnings from officials. One publisher, Hillway Culture, said it had been ...

Health officials on Friday said they are looking into a probable re-positive case involving a sailor from India, who had also come down Covid-19 in India in May. The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) said the man, 32, arrived in Hong Kong on Tuesda...

More than a dozen national security police officers raided the University of Hong Kong's students' union office on Friday, three days after Chief Executive Carrie Lam called for action against student leaders at the institution. Officers were seen ...

The coroner's court on Friday ruled that a man who staged a knife attack at a supermarket in March 2019 was lawfully killed by a police officer. The court heard that Li Ho-ting, 54, knifed the manager of a supermarket on Reclamation Street in Yau M...

A University of Hong Kong infectious disease expert suggested on Friday that people who have received the Sinovac coronavirus vaccine this year should be the first in line to get booster doses if they are eventually offered. A study by HKU researche...

Those involved in governing Hong Kong must have the courage to fight anyone who tries to harm national sovereignty and safety and can't shy away from confrontations, a senior Beijing official in charge of Hong Kong affairs said on Friday. Xia Baolon...