A fund that raises money to help people arrested during the 2019 social unrest on Monday said it's immediately halting the collection of donations. The 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund said it made the decision because the Alliance for True Democracy, t...

The Centre for Health Protection on Monday reported two new imported Covid-19 cases. One of the patients was a 20-year-old man who flew in from the US, while the other was a 23-year-old woman who arrived from Indonesia. The woman was asymptomatic,...

Police on Monday said they had arrested more than 2,300 people in an annual anti-triad joint operation with their Macau and Guangdong counterparts. During the campaign, code-named "Thunderbolt 21," officers raided about 2,000 venues, including illeg...

More than 100 travel agencies and coach operators on Monday warned that the industry won't survive much longer without further support from the authorities. In an open letter to Chief Executive Carrie Lam, they asked for an extension to a loan guara...

Government pandemic adviser David Hui said on Monday that it appears the Mu variant is less infectious than Delta – but he stressed there's not enough data to draw a conclusion at this stage. The World Health Organisation recently listed the Mu C...

Defunct newspaper Apple Daily's parent company announced on Sunday that all of its directors had resigned. In a stock exchange filing, Next Digital said the four members of its board of directors, including chairman Ip Yut Kin, were stepping down t...

It is understood that RTHK's City Forum won't resume this month following the summer break. The weekly live debate show, which invites guests to discuss topical issues with an audience asking questions, began airing in 1980. Its last episode was h...

A restaurant industry leader warned on Sunday that Brazil's decision to ban beef exports to China could see prices here rise by 30 percent or more. Brazil, which is the biggest source of beef for the SAR, announced the ban after detecting two cases...

A Beijing official in Hong Kong has accused local young people of being obsessed with western values like democracy and freedom – when they know nothing about their own country. In a speech at an awards ceremony for teachers on Sunday, Xu Kai, a ...

A migrant workers' group on Sunday criticised the administration's decision to limit new foreign domestic workers to serving their quarantine at a single hotel or a government facility, saying the measures amount to "segregation". Officials opened ...

Health officials on Sunday ordered compulsory Covid-19 tests for some residents in Mid-levels and Tai Wai, after two people who live there came down with the virus following a trip to Kyrgyzstan. The Centre for Health Protection said a man, 60, and ...

The group that used to stage the annual June 4 candlelight vigil said on Sunday it would not cooperate with a request from the national security police to hand over financial and operational information. In response, the force said it would take fol...

The financial secretary, Paul Chan, has apologised for the government's handling of applications for its consumption vouchers scheme, conceding that it caused problems for many elderly citizens. Writing on his blog on Sunday, Chan said crowds of sen...

The District Court on Saturday convicted three people of rioting in the vicinity of the Polytechnic University in 2019, at a time when hundreds of protesters inside the campus were surrounded by police. Kwok Chun-ming, Ting Pui-kei and Choi Yun-tin...

Health Secretary Sophia Chan said on Saturday that officials were closely monitoring the situation involving the Mu variant, but she stressed that Hong Kong had stringent measures in place to prevent the virus from spreading into the community. The...

In the first such case in Hong Kong, authorities said a dead wild pig has tested positive for the highly contagious African swine fever. The Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department said the animal was tested after "abnormal" deaths of wil...

Next Digital, owned by jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai, said it has been warned by the Hong Kong stock exchange that it could be delisted if trading does not resume by December 16, 2022. The company suspended trading on June 17 after national security...

The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) said on Friday that Hong Kong has recorded three Covid infections involving the Mu variant which has been newly listed by the World Health Organisation as a "variant of interest". The CHP said the patients in q...

Civic Passion on Friday announced it was disbanding, a little more than a week after its chairman, Cheng Chung-tai, was ousted from the Legislative Council because the authorities decided he is not loyal to Hong Kong. In a statement posted on the g...

Hong Kong children wanted to know whether the territory can be seen from space and what astronauts do to keep fit, as they joined a video link-up on Friday, between the exhibition centre in Wan Chai and China's new space station. Astronauts Nie Hais...