The first person convicted of national security offences in Hong Kong, Tong Ying-kit, has filed an appeal against the verdict and sentence. Three national security judges last month found him guilty of terrorism and inciting secession for driving a ...

A foreign domestic helper who was confirmed with Covid-19 after she completed her quarantine might have contracted the virus from two people staying in the directly opposite room in the quarantine hotel. Medical experts made the conclusion on Tuesda...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday people arriving in the city will no longer be able to undergo a shorter quarantine with a positive antibody test. This means vaccinated people coming from medium-risk areas will have to spend 14 days in a q...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam has warned that the government may cut ties with the Law Society – the way it did with the Professional Teachers’ Union – if it puts politics above professionalism. Her comments followed similar warnings from the P...

A team of University of Hong Kong researchers said their latest study has shown that the Sinovac jab could lead to an increased risk of Bell’s palsy – a type of facial paralysis – but concluded that the benefit of the jab still outweigh the ris...

Health officials said on Tuesday that they had not yet found any confirmed cases of coronavirus at a residential block in Tung Chung that was locked down overnight. Mei Yat House in Yat Tung Estate was placed under lockdown on Monday evening, after...

An expert committee under the Centre for Health Protection on Monday recommended extending the quarantine period to 14 days for travellers returning from medium to low risk countries if they are vaccinated and their antibody test is positive. They a...

Ten green groups have called on the government to implement a ban on the use of plastic tableware in restaurants sooner. Under a proposal to reduce pollution, officials hope to phase out single-use plastic tableware, such as straws, cutlery and plat...

Police on Monday said they had arrested a teenager who allegedly went skateboarding on a road in Sha Tin last week, on suspicion of “driving without a licence”. The arrest was made after videos circulated on the internet showing a man riding an...

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...