A political cartoonist on Saturday apologised after his latest work published on a newspaper linked the Junior Police Call (JPC) to a recent row over the Hong Kong Journalists Association. The security secretary, Chris Tang, earlier said that HKJA ...

Health officials reported five new Covid-19 infections on Saturday, all of which are imported. The patients, aged 18 to 43, arrived from the United States, the Philippines, Qatar and India from the 11th to 16th of this month. All of them have bee...

Police commissioner Raymond Siu on Saturday said the force will mobilise some 5,000 to 6,000 officers to ensure the safety of the Election Committee elections on Sunday. But he said police had not received any intelligence that there are people who ...

Labour Secretary Law Chi-kwong on Saturday said officials have been studying ways to lower the impact of a possible disbandment by the Confederation of Trade Unions (CTU), one of the government's largest employee training course service providers. ...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan said on Saturday that the construction of a rail link between Hong Kong and Qianhai is a plan worth considering, with the connection between the two places set to become stronger. The minister made the comments after i...

Infectious diseases expert Ben Cowling said on Friday that he believes booster vaccines against Covid will only be needed in Hong Kong when international travel gets going again. The University of Hong Kong professor's comment came as some fully va...

A hospital union on Friday denied it had engaged in activities that were not in line with the Trade Unions Ordinance, including holding a strike last year and calling on the government to seal the border with the mainland. The Hospital Authority Emp...

The High Court on Friday rejected a request by jailed media tycoon and national security suspect Jimmy Lai to restore his voting rights as the major shareholder of Next Digital. In May, the authorities froze Lai's personal assets and his 71 percent...

Health officials on Friday reported three imported Covid-19 cases. The three men, aged between 45 and 53, did not develop any symptoms. They had all been vaccinated, with two doses of either BioNTech or AstraZeneca vaccines. One of them is a 53-ye...

Executive councillor Regina Ip says she got a BioNTech jab this week, after a blood test revealed she had no antibodies left from the two Sinovac shots she received around half a year ago. Ip, who had been among the first people in Hong Kong to take...

The Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China on Thursday night disabled its website and removed all entries on its online platforms – at the demand of the police. The alliance said in a statement that it was ordered by the f...

Education minister Kevin Yeung said on Thursday that nine more secondary schools will resume full-day, face-to-face classes from next week, after the bureau relaxed its vaccination requirement for students. The bureau says that if 70 percent of a sc...

A rare hailstorm hit Tseung Kwan O at around 1pm on Thursday, with online video footage and photos shared by residents showing the area being pounded by small balls of ice. The observatory said the phenomenon was caused by high temperature and unse...

The High Court on Thursday granted bail to former legislator Ray Chan – one of a group of 47 people charged with subversion over Legco primary polls last year. He had been held in custody since being charged around half a year ago. After hearing ...

The Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China said on Thursday that it is removing all its posts on online platforms – at the demand of national security police. The alliance, which used to organise June 4 vigils, said its we...

The Environmental Protection Department (EPD) warned on Thursday that air pollution may reach "serious" levels in some areas. At 3pm, eight of the city’s 18 general and roadside air quality monitoring stations recorded "high" or “very high” ai...

Health officials on Thursday reported zero Covid-19 infections. It had been two weeks since the territory last recorded no new cases over a 24-hour period. The Centre for Health Protection also reported fewer than five preliminary positive cases. ...

Ten thousand mainland jobs and the same number of internships will be opened up to young people from Hong Kong in the coming five years, the All-China Youth Federation announced at a seminar on Thursday. It also said 20,000 exchange places will be a...

Home Affairs Secretary Caspar Tsui says the government has clearly explained to seven disqualified district councillors the reasons why their oaths of office were ruled invalid. Clarisse Yeung, Leung Pak-kin, Wei Siu-lik, So Yat-hang, Chan Wing-tai,...

Democratic Party chairman Lo Kin-hei has called on the government to clarify the requirements for meeting the loyalty pledge, after one of the party’s councillors was disqualified for failing to make a valid oath of office. The party’s So Yat-h...