The chairman of the Hospital Authority, Henry Fan, says he's worried about an increasing loss of public sector medical staff due to emigration. He said from July 2020 until the end of June this year, the turnover rates of doctors and nurses were 4.6...

A legal battle over financial services firm Convoy Global will go to the city's top court after the Court of Appeal ruled that the case raised important questions regarding the corporate governance of companies across different jurisdictions. Convo...

Shoppers at To Kwa Wan Market said they will step up precautionary measures after the Covid-19 virus was found on fish samples there. Health authorities said on Thursday that they had found the virus on samples of imported frozen fish on sale at the...

The Department of Justice on Friday confirmed the appointment of Maggie Yang as Hong Kong's new director of public prosecutions. Earlier this year, Yang led the prosecution of 47 pro-democracy figures charged with violating the national security law...

Police Commissioner Raymond Siu says mass rallies organised by the Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF) in recent years are suspected of violating the national security law. The group, which is reportedly on the verge of disbanding, has not held any prot...

A political scholar says he's not surprised at the news the Civil Human Rights Front is contemplating disbanding, noting that the protest organiser has been under attack from critics while also being unable to carry out its usual activities. Reports...

Elections will not be needed for many of the seats on the Election Committee, with the number of names put forward only slightly exceeding the number of places available as the nomination period comes to an end on Thursday, Of the 1,500 seats on th...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Thursday that RTHK can join other stations to televise the Tokyo Paralympics, after it was excluded from broadcasting the Olympics earlier. Speaking at a flag presentation ceremony for the Hong Kong Paralympics del...

Police said they have arrested a man in Tin Shui Wai on Thursday in connection with the mob attack at the Yuen Long MTR station on July 21, 2019. A spokesman from the force said the 63-year-old was being held on suspicion of rioting and conspiracy t...

The MTR Corporation on Thursday said it has returned to the black in the first half of this year for the first time since 2019, posting a net profit of HK$2.67 billion. However, the rail firm said earnings were still below pre-pandemic levels becaus...

Official figures show that Hong Kong's population fell by 87,000 people over the past year, or about 1.2 percent, to 7,394,700. In a statement, the government said the drop from mid-2020 to mid-2021 can be attributed to a natural decrease, whereby ...

Police on Thursday arrested a man for allegedly abusing and killing rabbits and mice to perform "voodoo rituals”. Officers said the 19-year-old was arrested on suspicion of cruelty to animals, after they received reports about a social media acco...

The Hospital Authority will allow fully vaccinated people to visit family members staying in 12 acute and specialist hospitals starting next Wednesday. But a patients' rights group questioned if the jab requirement is necessary. The authority said ...

Three Court of Appeal judges have launched a scathing attack on the Department of Justice (DOJ) for the “manifest injustice” it allowed in a drugs trafficking case that saw a man wrongly convicted and jailed. Ma Ka-kin was 20 years old in 2016 w...

Visitors who flocked to the Food Expo on its opening day had mixed views towards a ban on sample tastings this year, with some calling it disappointing and others taking it in their stride because of the pandemic. The popular five-day event on Thurs...

Members of the League of Social Democrats have vowed to continue to campaign for social justice, on the eve of a meeting by the Civil Human Rights Front that would reportedly decide on disbanding the group. The league, one of the front's member grou...

Elections will likely not be needed for the majority of seats on the Election Committee, with the number of names put forward roughly matching the places available as the nomination period comes to an end. Of the 1,500 seats on the body, 982 were or...

Health authorities on Thursday reported five imported coronavirus cases, four of them involving the mutant L452R strain. Those who tested positive for the mutant strain are two people from Switzerland who were being quarantined in a Tsim Sha Tsui ho...

Liberal Party leader Felix Chung on Thursday dismissed suggestions that foreign businesses will leave Hong Kong when the SAR adopts the mainland's anti-sanctions law. On a radio programme, Chung called the anti-sanctions law a “weapon” that will...

An infectious disease specialist said on Thursday that a man who was mistakenly given two Covid-19 jabs on the same day might experience more side effects than usual, but his condition should not be too worrying. The Department of Health said the ma...