The Confederation of Trade Unions (CTU) said on Sunday that its members would discuss and vote on a motion to disband on October 3. Leaders of CTU said they had received messages that if they continued to run the group, their personal safety might ...

Police have arrested a 40-year-old man for allegedly stabbing three workers at a bakery in Cheung Sha Wan on Sunday morning. The attack took place at around 7 am at the Hoi Lai Shopping Centre. A 60-year-old woman, surnamed Lam, was cut on the foreh...

Health officials on Sunday reported three new imported Covid-19 cases. One of them was a 38-year-old man who arrived from the Philippines. He earlier received two doses of the BioNTech vaccine in Hong Kong and tested positive for antibodies in Ju...

The Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs, Erick Tsang, said on Sunday that there had been an enthusiastic response to the Election Committee poll. By 11am, 1,450 people have voted in the election – about 30 percent of voters. A tot...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Sunday dismissed suggestions that the revamped electoral system is designed to screen out opposition voices. She made the remarks as voting began for about a quarter of the 1,500 seats on the election committee. Some...

The Vice-Premier, Han Zheng, told the Chief Executive to uphold the principle of "patriots administering Hong Kong" and organise well the coming three "major" elections in accordance with the law. The state leader was speaking on Saturday as he met...

An off-duty police officer was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of assaulting a man in Tsim Sha Tsui's nightlife district in the early hours. A spokesman from the force said it received a report at around 4am that a 32-year-old man hit another man...

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...