Health authorities suspended flights from Manila operated by Cebu Pacific Air on Friday – less than a week after fully vaccinated domestic helpers from Indonesia and the Philippines were allowed to come here to work. The flight ban, which will be ...

Five Chinese University students were on Friday convicted of rioting at the institution two years ago. The District Court said the five, aged between 20 and 23, stayed with protesters who threw petrol bombs at police officers on November 11, 2019, w...

Education Secretary Kevin Yeung said on Friday that the government will assess whether Hong Kong schools are experiencing an exodus of students after carrying out an annual headcount of pupils in the middle of this month. The annual Primary School ...

The president of the Association of Hong Kong Professionals, Eugene Chan, has rejected suggestions that civil society in the territory is under threat, backing up comments from Chief Executive Carrie Lam. Chan told RTHK's Backchat programme on Frid...

Commerce and Economic Development Secretary Edward Yau has defended the government’s stringent quarantine measures, saying the 21-day quarantine period is needed for arrivals from parts of the world where there are a high number of Covid-19 cases. ...

The Consumer Council says it has received more than a hundred complaints and enquiries over the sudden closure of two beauty salons and a massage parlour. The three companies involved – About Beauty, Dr.Protalk and Top Comfort – announced on We...

The government on Thursday announced that Covid-19 testing contractor BGI is to resume its mobile operations following a review. Its operations were suspended in April after cross-contamination caused several samples to test false-positive. The go...

In yet another bid to boost Hong Kong's vaccination rate, people on Thursday got a free bag of rice when they took their Covid-19 jabs at Lok Fu Plaza under the government's outreach programme. The initiative was jointly organised by the government ...

Eight Hongkongers who were detained by mainland authorities for illegally crossing into mainland waters on a speedboat last year have been remanded back in custody after a brief appearance at the District Court. Liu Tsz-man, Cheng Tsz-ho, Cheung Chu...

A government bill to ban the sale of e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products is finally making some progress in Legco, with the biggest party in the council, the DAB, now throwing its support behind the proposal. The amendment bill, which was intro...

Customs officers say they have seized HK$125 million worth of ketamine which arrived as sea cargo from Pakistan. Officials said drugs from Pakistan usually arrived by air in the past, but traffickers have increasingly opted for sea routes since the ...

The University of Hong Kong (HKU) says it has lifted a campus ban for 18 students' union council members after learning more about their involvement in a motion that mourned the “sacrifice” of a man who stabbed a policeman in July. The universi...

A long queue snaked around streets near a government office in Mong Kok on Thursday as hundreds of elderly people flocked to submit additional documents to get the government’s electronic spending vouchers. The authorities have extended the regis...

An official says the government has done all it can to make sure people can get their electronic cash vouchers, and it simply isn’t feasible to contact every elderly person in the city to remind them to register. Jessie Wong from the Financial Se...

Two beauty salons and a massage parlour under Bonjour Beauty Limited announced on Wednesday that they were suspending operations. The three companies involved were About Beauty, Dr.Protalk and Top Comfort. A notice was posted outside one of About...

A seventh person has been charged with conspiracy to commit terrorist activities over an alleged bomb plot involving a pro-independence group known as "Returning Valiant". The 18-year-old student appeared before West Kowloon Magistracy on Wednesday ...

Labour and welfare minister Law Chi-kwong said the government cannot set aside more quarantine hotels for foreign domestic helpers as talks to add a second hotel broke down. His comments on Wednesday came as some employers are upset that they have t...

Police have confirmed that they're investigating a fund that's been helping protesters involved in the social unrest that began in 2019, over suspected national security breaches. RTHK understands that the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund and the Allia...

Dozens of angry elderly citizens have vented their anger at a government office in Mong Kok after they found out their applications for the HK$5,000 spending voucher failed. Some 800,000 people who submitted written applications for the electronic v...

Four people facing charges over their alleged roles in running a vice establishment pleaded not guilty at Eastern Court on Wednesday. Three women and a man were charged after it was revealed that the former head of the national security department o...