US businesses in Hong Kong fear mainland Chinese internet curbs and want local authorities to commit to the free flow of information, the head of the city's American Chamber of Commerce said Monday. Hong Kong has long marketed itself as an internat...

A senior executive of Now News has tendered her resignation, RTHK understands. The news department’s vice president, Annie Cheng, texted her colleagues on Monday morning about her decision. “The time has come,” Cheng wrote, adding she had cho...

A man appeared in court on Monday charged with attempted rape, in a case which reportedly led police to bust three top government officials for flouting public gathering rules. Chen Fen is accused of trying to rape a woman in a flat in Happy Valley ...

The observatory says it will consider issuing the Strong Wind Signal Number 3 in the late afternoon on Monday or Tuesday morning, as Tropical Storm Cempaka intensifies and edges closer to the west of the Pearl River Estuary. The Standby Signal Numb...

Respiratory medicine specialist Leung Chi-chiu warned on Monday that even if Hong Kong reaches a 70 percent vaccination rate, this may no longer be good enough to provide herd immunity against Covid-19 in light of the emergence of more contagious var...

A product designer was on Monday sentenced to three years and nine months in prison for rioting in Hung Hom in 2019, at a time when hundreds of protesters were surrounded by police at the nearby Polytechnic University. Lui Sheuk-hang, 31, was arrest...

A member of Beijing's top think tank on Hong Kong said state leaders want the SAR government to communicate more with the public, and do more to address housing issues here. Henry Ho, a council member of the Chinese Association of Hong Kong and Mac...

The Observatory on Monday cancelled the Amber Rainstorm Warning Signal at 3.50am. It had been issued at 2.35am. The Observatory said that although the rainstorm warning has been cancelled, people should stay alert to the danger that may be brought a...

The Observatory on Sunday issued the Standby Signal no 1 at 9.40pm. This means that a tropical cyclone now centred within about 800 kilometres of Hong Kong may affect the SAR. At 5am on Monday, the tropical depression over the northern part of the ...

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...