A group supporting people who took part in the Yuen Long incident two years ago have filed a complaint against the judge who sent seven men to jail. The convenor of the Treasure Friendship Group, Sandy Li, said on Monday that 100,000 people had sign...

Justice Secretary Teresa Cheng on Monday echoed comments by the People's Daily that legal bodies in Hong Kong should not get involved with politics. The newspaper issued the warning to the Law Society at the weekend, saying it should prove it is dif...

The government on Monday announced tighter quarantine arrangements for people arriving in Hong Kong from 16 countries, including the United States, citing the threat from the more infectious Delta coronavirus variant. Officials said 15 countries wil...

Legco president Andrew Leung has put a price tag of HK$1.17 billion on the expansion of the Legislative Council complex to accommodate an additional 20 lawmakers following Beijing’s electoral overhaul. He said the project is expected to get underw...

The Centre for Health Protection on Monday reported three new coronavirus cases, all of them imported. Health officials said they involve three men aged between 42 and 50 who returned from Switzerland, Japan and Malaysia. They said the man who retu...

Tests of dried fruit products on sale in Hong Kong have found that more than 40 percent contained at least three types of pesticides which could pose health risks, the Consumer Council said on Monday. Pesticide residues were found in two-thirds of ...

The Consumer Council has urged people relocating overseas to watch out for moving companies’ surcharges as it records a surge in complaints this year. The watchdog said it received 20 complaints about overseas moving services from January to July...

A leading microbiologist, Ho Pak-leung, on Monday criticised the shortening of Covid-19 quarantine periods to seven days for vaccinated people arriving in Hong Kong, saying the move has created a "loophole" in the city's defences. In recent days, a ...

Executive councillor Ip Kwok-him on Monday dismissed suggestions that large-scale protests will no longer be allowed, saying they could still go ahead as long as the aim is not to “oppose China and disrupt Hong Kong”. Ip was speaking a day afte...

A demographics expert on Monday said Hong Kong is seeing a "watershed" in its population development, after official figures showed that Hong Kong's population fell by 87,000 people over the past year, or about 1.2 percent, to 7,394,700. Professor P...

The government has warned laboratories against carrying out antibody tests on samples sent from overseas, after it emerged that a woman had tested positive for a more contagious strain of the coronavirus following a reduced spell in quarantine. Ques...

Executive Council member Regina Ip said the dissolution of the Civil Human Rights Front will be beneficial to the city, because it had always been a group that “opposes China and disrupts Hong Kong”. Ip said she believed the front might have d...

Hong Kong on Sunday reported one imported Covid-19 case, involving a 34-year-old patient who had recently been to Mexico. Health officials said the woman flew in on August 7 and stayed at the Rambler Garden Hotel in Tsing Yi during her quarantine pe...

Police said on Sunday that they have arrested three people for allegedly forging identity cards and Covid-19 vaccination records for sale. Officers arrested a woman, who’s a cleaner, and her 14-year-old son, after they passed some documents and m...

The Civil Human Rights Front on Sunday said it’s disbanding, saying it can no longer operate in the face of what it described as suppression from the authorities. “Unfortunately, for the past year or so, the government repeatedly used the pande...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan said on Sunday that he expects some people to use the introduction of the anti-sanctions law to weaken Hong Kong’s status as an international financial hub and destablise the market. Writing in his blog, Chan said pe...

The Civil Human Rights Front is expected to give an update on its future on Sunday afternoon amid growing speculation that it will disband. Reports said the front's remaining members met on Friday to discuss a proposal to dissolve. Its acting conven...

Police are investigating the deaths of two people whose bodies were found at their home on the Siu Sai Wan Estate in Chai Wan on Saturday morning. The remains of the 63-year-old man who owns the flat and a 54-year-old woman, who works as a cleaner, ...

People's Daily, on Saturday warned Hong Kong's Law Society not to play with politics unless it wants to follow the fate of the Bar Association and the now-defunct Professional Teachers Union. The warning comes ahead of an election later this month f...

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...