Hongkongers again erupted in cheers on Thursday, as the SAR’s table tennis players snatched a bronze in the women’s team event – the city's fourth medal at the Tokyo Games. Among those watching the event on TV at the Olympian City mall were th...

Researchers from Chinese University say they have developed a stool test that can detect or predict autism in young children. The researchers looked at the stool samples of 128 children aged 3 to 6, of which half had autism. They found that in the...

University of Hong Kong microbiologist Ho Pak-leung has joined calls for health authorities to further tighten entry and quarantine requirements for residents returning from the mainland, in light of a worsening Covid-19 situation across the border. ...

Law lecturer Eric Cheung said on Thursday he had resigned as a member of the University of Hong Kong's governing council, a day after the body banned from campus all students who attended a recent controversial students' union meeting. The council s...

The overnight compulsory Covid testing operations at a block of flats in Sham Shui Po, and at a hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui, have been completed with health authorities so far finding no cases. Officials said they had tested 600 people in Sham Shui Po, an...

Hong Kong moved to insulate itself from a worsening Covid-19 situation on the mainland on Wednesday, by suspending quarantine exemptions for residents returning from anywhere on the mainland bar Guangdong. Up to 6,000 residents could return to Hong ...

The government on Wednesday evening put a residential block in Sham Po and a hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui under lockdown, in what it described as “precautionary” measures. Residents of Block A of Tung Lo Court on Tai Po Road and guests of the Luxe Man...

The University of Hong Kong’s governing council said on Wednesday it was banning all students who attended a controversial meeting of the students' union council from the campus. During the July 7 meeting in question, the students’ union council...

Health officials on Wednesday reported a preliminary positive local Covid-19 case, after Hong Kong lived through almost 60 days with no local infections. The Centre for Health Protection said the man is a 43-year-old construction worker who lives in...

Prosecutors are seeking to transfer the case of a woman and a teenager suspected of handing out seditious leaflets from a magistrate’s court to the District Court. Chloe Cho, a 45-year-old clerk, and student Wong Chun-wai, 17, are charged with co...

Justice minister Teresa Cheng has sought to play down concern about reports that Beijing plans to introduce anti-sanctions law to Hong Kong and the impact it could have on financial institutions here. The law was introduced on the mainland in June ...

A museum commemorating the Tiananmen Square incident reopened online on Wednesday, two months after its physical location in Mong Kok was closed following a probe by the authorities. The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movement...

The observatory issued the Standby Signal Number 1 at 4.20am on Wednesday, to replace the Strong Wind Signal Number 3. At 5am, the tropical depression over the northern part of the South China Sea was estimated to be about 170km south-southeast of H...

Pro-establishment figures on Tuesday dismissed suggestions that their election rallies could be in breach of the law, one day after a former pro-democracy lawmaker and a singer were charged by the ICAC over a rally three years ago. The case involvin...

Initium Media, a Hong Kong-based digital media outlet, said on Tuesday that it was moving its headquarters to Singapore, citing "difficult" conditions in the SAR. In a letter to readers, Initium's executive editor Susie Wu said “the road to freedo...

The observatory says the Strong Wing Signal No 3 is expected to remain in place overnight and for some time on Wednesday morning, though the chance of a higher warning level is believed to be relatively low. The No 3 signal was issued at 4.25pm on T...

One of Hong Kong's best known artists, Kacey Wong, said on social media that he has left Hong Kong for Taiwan, reportedly because he wanted to go to a place where he would enjoy "100 percent freedom". Wong posted a video message on Facebook on Tuesd...

Health authorities reported four new Covid-19 infections on Tuesday, all of which were imported cases involving mutated strains. The patients, aged 8 to 33, arrived on a Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul on August 1. Three of them had received...

Most schools will probably not be able to resume full-day classes when the new academic year starts next month, as there’s not enough time for them to achieve the 70-percent vaccination rate for students and staff required by the government. That...

Pro-democracy activists Lee Cheuk-yan and Tsang Kin-shing appeared in court on Tuesday over the releasing of a balloon during a New Year's Day protest, with Tsang receiving a fine after pleading guilty and Lee to be put on trial. Prosecutors told Ea...