Financial services minister Christopher Hui has come under fire at the Legislative Council for not taking action sooner against a fund that raises money to help people arrested during the 2019 social unrest. The criticism follows the 612 Humanitaria...

Health authorities on Wednesday reported two new imported Covid-19 cases – both fully vaccinated and infected with the potentially more contagious L452R mutant strain. One of them is a 31-year-old man who flew in from South Korea on September 2. H...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Wednesday that the number of people taking the coronavirus jabs recently has dropped to a “worrying” level, as she again urged people to get vaccinated as soon as possible if they want to have quarantine-free tr...

A veteran unionist on Wednesday urged the government to expand the daily quota for mainland and Macau residents to come to Hong Kong without having to undergo quarantine. Wong Kwok, chairman of the Federation of Trade Unions, made the comments a da...

The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China says police arrived at the homes and offices of its key members early on Wednesday to make arrests after it refused to hand over information requested by the force's nationa...

The government said late on Tuesday it's moving to phase out the use of self-collected deep throat saliva tests in favour of nasal and throat swabs taken by professionals in an effort to improve the effectiveness of mandatory Covid-19 testing. From ...

Health authorities said on Tuesday that fourteen people were hospitalised for suspected carbon monoxide poisoning after a hot pot dinner in Wan Chai. The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) said the six men and eight women, aged between 23 and 39, ha...

Security Secretary Chris Tang on Tuesday warned that prison inmates are using treats such as chocolates to recruit followers and "build up forces" to endanger national security. Tang said these prisoners, whom he didn't name, are either on remand be...

The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China on Tuesday doubled down on its insistence that it will not hand over information for a national security probe into its activities, submitting a letter to the police outlini...

A government adviser on Covid-19 vaccines, Ben Cowling, said on Tuesday that he has reservations about letting young children take Sinovac jabs, hours after the chair of the Scientific Committee on Vaccine Preventable Diseases called for such a move....

Health officials on Tuesday reported six imported Covid-19 cases. The four women and two men, aged between 37 and 50, arrived from the United States, Britain, the Philippines and Tanzania. All of them were vaccinated earlier and tested positive fo...

Any organisation that doesn't abide by the law or obey a lawful demand for information by national security police can't claim to be a member of civil society, Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday. Lam was referring to June 4 vigil organisers,...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday that mainlanders and Macau residents will be able to enter Hong Kong without undergoing quarantine from September 15. At her weekly press briefing, Lam said a maximum of 2,000 non-Hong Kong residents from t...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam says the government will soon begin sending out invitations for district councillors to swear allegiance to the Basic Law and the SAR, and anyone who refuses to pledge their loyalty will lose their seats. Lam said on Tues...

The head of a government advisory body on Covid-19 vaccines has proposed allowing children as young as six to take Sinovac jabs. Lau Yu-lung said on Tuesday that this would be among ideas for discussion at a meeting of the Scientific Committee on V...

Health authorities on Tuesday morning completed their compulsory Covid testing exercise at a residential block in Lohas Park in Tseung Kwan O. In a statement, the government said, as of 1 am, around 1,340 residents had been tested and no confirmed ca...

The Security Bureau on Monday accused Next Digital – the parent company of the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper – of making “misleading remarks” in a company announcement. In a stock exchange filing on Sunday, Next Digital said the four me...

Beijing said a special economic zone in Shenzhen, created to boost cooperation with Hong Kong, will see its size increase severalfolds as part of a plan to foster closer business and technological ties between the two places. In an announcement, the...

Health authorities sealed off a block in Lohas Park in Tseung Kwan O and ordered its residents to undergo compulsory coronavirus tests on Monday evening, after a woman living there gave a preliminary positive sample for the L452R mutant strain. The...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam has thanked Shenzhen authorities for helping Hong Kong combat the Covid-19 pandemic, saying officials there have done a lot to help SAR residents. Speaking at the ‘High-level Meeting cum Hong Kong/Shenzhen Co-operation M...