Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) on Monday said it will no longer collect membership fees on behalf of its students' union, but denied that the move is aimed at severing ties with the body. This follows similar decisions taken by a number of othe...

Health authorities on Monday reported no new Covid-19 infections – the fifth time this month – after a week of single-digit cases. It's understood there were fewer than five preliminary positive cases. The Centre for Health Protection said a t...

One of the 12 Hongkongers captured during an attempt to flee the SAR by speedboat has been given more time in detention after appearing in court over the escape bid and earlier protest-related offences. Hoang Lam-phuc, 17, pleaded guilty to perverti...

Occupy movement co-founder Benny Tai has been charged by the ICAC over a strategic voting scheme that he proposed for the Legco polls in 2016. Five years ago, Tai came up with the “ThunderGo” strategy, which sought to use pre-election poll resu...

The chef de mission of the Hong Kong delegation to the Tokyo Olympics says athletes should be allowed to focus on the competition rather than being distracted by politics, as he commented on a row over a T-shirt worn by badminton player Angus Ng. Ng...

The League of Social Democrats says it has elected Chan Po-ying as its new chairwoman. Chan is the wife of jailed activist Leung Kwok-hung, who's better known as "Long Hair". The party announced in a social media post that it held a special meeti...

The head of Hong Kong's equalities office said on Sunday it is drafting a bill to cover sexual minorities' rights, which are currently unprotected. Ricky Chu, chairperson of the Equal Opportunities Commission said they are looking into ways to fill...

Trade unionists on Sunday repeated their calls for the government to review its payments and procedures for the Protection of Wages on Insolvency Fund, saying the fund has not been tweaked in 25 years. The Federation of Trade Unions says more than ...

Some non-elderly single people queuing for public housing have accused the authorities of discriminating against them when it comes to allocating flats. Currently, these single people are in a queue separate from family or elderly applicants, with t...

Top microbiologist Yuen Kwok-yung has warned that Hong Kong was not out of the woods yet despite going another day without any local infection, as he urged the public achieve a vaccination rate of more than 90 percent for social distancing measures t...

Hong Kong badminton player Angus Ng said on Sunday he hopes people can focus on the performance of athletes rather than what they wear, after he came under attack for the black shirt he put on at the Tokyo Olympics. Ng, the top men's player from the...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan said on Sunday there must be "substantial" progress in tackling Hong Kong's housing problems if the SAR is to get rid of subdivided flats by 2049. He made the comments on his weekly blog, responding to remarks by a sen...

A prisoners' rights advocate is calling on prison authorities to improve arrangements for prisoners in solitary confinement. Richard Tsoi, from the Society for Community Organisation (Soco), said such prisoners usually face greater stress and they ...

Customs officers on Sunday said they had made three major drug busts this month - seizing 145 kilos of liquid meth, 72 kilos of cocaine and 61 kilos of heroin with a total street value of about HK$230 million. Four men and a woman, aged between 31 a...

Police say a taxi ran out of control in Yau Tong at about 1 am on Sunday, crashing into some railings. The driver, who passed a breathalyser test, was sent to Queen Elizabeth Hospital with minor injuries. There were no passengers in the taxi. T...

The Observatory has issued the Amber Rainstorm Warning Signal, which means it expects more than 30 millimetres of rain an hour in the SAR. It warned of flooding in low lying and poorly drained areas, and warned members of the public who were likely ...

The Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office said on Saturday seven American citizens and entities that are being sanctioned by Beijing are getting the punishment they deserve. In the first sanctions imposed under China's new anti-foreign sanction law, u...

Health authorities reported two new Covid-19 cases on Saturday, both of which were imported. The patients involved a 36-year-old man who came from the United Arab Emirates and a 26-year-old woman from the United States. Both were asymptomatic and...

Hong Kong athletes are making progress in their fight for gold on the first day of the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday. In fencing, former world number one Vivian Kong was the first Hong Kong fencer to reach an Olympics fencing quarter-final, but lost t...

Secretary for the Civil Service Patrick Nip said on Saturday that authorities will launch a scheme by this month to make it easier for the elderly to get vaccinated, amidst a low inoculation rate for the age group. Speaking on an RTHK progamme, Nip ...