A tree-cutting worker with the Leisure and Cultural Services Department died on Wednesday, after the crane she was working on collapsed. Her co-worker suffered waist injuries. The accident happened at the junction of Water Street and Des Voeux Ro...

Health officials on Wednesday reported three imported coronavirus cases, all of them infected with the L452R mutant strain. The Centre for Health Protection said one of the patients – a 39-year-old woman from Turkey – had received one dose of t...

Environmental group Green Sense on Wednesday urged the government to do more to educate the public and impose stricter guidelines on online shopping packaging, as consumers “get used to” the worsening problem of over-packaging amid the pandemic. ...

Police said on Wednesday they have arrested four University of Hong Kong students on suspicion of advocating terrorism by mourning a man who stabbed an officer before killing himself on July 1. Steve Li, a senior superintendent with the force's nati...

A fund offering support for protesters who are arrested or injured announced on Wednesday that it will cease operations. The 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund was formed days after the anti-extradition protests broke out in June 2019. A statement by the...

Following a breakthrough in forensics technology, the police on Tuesday charged a 58-year-old man over the alleged rape of a 13-year-old girl at San Fat Estate in Tuen Mun 38 years ago. He is also accused of robbing HK$160 from the girl, in an incid...

The government says its new boarding, quarantine and testing requirements for people arriving from overseas will take effect from midnight on Friday, while renewing its existing social-distancing measures for the SAR. The Chief Executive, Carrie Lam...

Hong Kong will celebrate the historic success of its Olympians with a bus parade on Thursday morning. The city's athletes, coaches and other delegation members will ride in two open-top buses through the city. In a statement issued on Tuesday, th...

The city's sole delegate to the country's top legislature, Tam Yiu-chung, said a resolution on adding the anti-sanctions law to Annex III of the Basic Law is expected to pass on Friday. He made the comment on Tuesday, the first day of a meeting of ...

The Centre for Health Protection said it appeared that an airport worker, one of the city's latest Covid-19 cases, was infected by transit passengers, rather than contracting the virus in the community. The woman, 47, is one of the three cases confi...

Three activists charged over their alleged involvement in a banned protest held on July 1 last year indicated to the District Court on Tuesday that they would plead guilty. Tsang Kin-shing and Tang Sai-lai from the League of Social Democrats, and f...

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...