Infectious disease experts on Saturday urged the government to review its quarantine policies for fully vaccinated travellers, saying they should be quarantined for at least 14 days instead of seven. This comes after a fully vaccinated foreign dome...

A 63-year-old man who has been charged with rioting in connection with the Yuen Long mob attack on July 21, 2019 was remanded in custody on Saturday following his appearance at the Shatin Magistracy. The defendant, who is also facing a wounding cha...

Home affairs secretary Caspar Tsui said on Saturday that officials are in talks with organisers to see if the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon can go ahead this year, and what measures have to be taken to prevent the spread of Covid-19. Speaki...

Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Erick Tsang on Saturday urged people not to be obsessed with keen competition, now that next month's election committee polls have seen a drastic fall in the number of potential candidates. The elec...

The government on Friday announced it is tightening testing arrangements for staff who work at restaurants under the Type B mode of operation, saying those who're unvaccinated need to undergo testing every seven days, instead of every two weeks. Re...

The local economy is tipped to enjoy stronger growth in 2021 than previously thought. The government on Friday revised upwards the city's full-year GDP growth forecast as the economy continued to improve amid an easing local Covid-19 outbreak. The e...

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...