Kenneth Ng, political assistant to the constitutional and mainland affairs minister, has resigned and will leave the administration on August 30, the government announced on Thursday. Ng, a former TVB journalist, will join the West Kowloon Cultural ...

The government said on Thursday that Hollywood star Nicole Kidman had not breached any of the conditions that came with her quarantine-free arrival in Hong Kong, including minimising any contact with the public. The actor was allowed to skip quarant...

Police said on Thursday they had made their largest drug seizure of the year, netting 148 kilogrammes of ice and 86 kilogrammes of heroin. The haul was estimated to be worth HK$195 million. Officers said the drugs were uncovered on Wednesday at an ...

The District Court on Thursday jailed one man for 40 months and another for 36 months over the possession of petrol bombs. City University student Cheng Kam-fai, 22, and construction worker Wong Kin-kei, 21, were earlier found guilty of possessing ...

Health officials on Thursday reported five imported Covid-19 infections. The patients – who arrived from Pakistan, Germany, Malaysia, Turkey and Bangladesh – all carried the L452R mutain strain. Four of the five had been vaccinated against the ...

Two men on Thursday pleaded guilty to conspiracy to collude with foreign forces, in a national security case linked to jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai. At the High Court, Andy Li, 31, and Chan Tsz-wah, 30, admitted to colluding with Lai, 73, and other...

Police on Thursday said they have arrested an 87-year-old man over the attack at Yuen Long MTR Station on July 21, 2019. A force spokesman said the man was being detained on suspicion of rioting and conspiracy to wound with intent. Last month, the ...

Respiratory medicine specialist Leung Chi-chiu said on Thursday that people needn’t rush to get a booster dose of the Covid-19 jab, pointing out that vaccines would continue to protect against serious illness even if one’s antibody levels fall. ...

Researchers at Chinese University have started giving Covid-19 booster shots to people who have had both doses of the Sinovac vaccine, after a study they conducted found these people had low antibody levels. A respiratory diseases expert at the univ...

Lawmakers voted on Wednesday to treat certain wildlife offences as organised and serious crimes, in an effort to combat wildlife trafficking. The move to include these crimes in the Organised and Serious Crimes Ordinance gives authorities more powe...

A tree pruner 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 Road West ...

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 that offers legal and financial support for protesters announced on Wednesday that it will cease operation later this year. The 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund, which was formed after the anti-extradition protests began in June 2019, announced t...

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...