The government has announced that everyone aged 12 or above can receive walk-in jabs at 21 community vaccination centres from Wednesday. A government spokesman said the centres would distribute 'same-day tickets' from 7.45am every day on a first-co...

A localist group, Student Politicism, on Monday said two of its leaders had been arrested by national security police. In a brief statement on Facebook, the group said its convenor Wong Yat-chin and secretary general Chan Chi-sum were being detained...

The Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) on Monday dismissed suggestions that the Election Committee is not representative enough, saying that it's inclusive and members convey different views in society. "I think e...

The liaison office has welcomed Sunday’s election committee polls, saying they marked a "major step in Hong Kong's democratic development with its own characteristics". In a statement issued through the Xinhua news agency on Monday, the office sai...

A new Election Committee, which will be tasked with picking the next Chief Executive and a large number of the SAR's new lawmakers was formed on Monday, in the first vote since Beijing revamped Hong Kong's electoral system. Most candidates and vote...

The head of the Electoral Affairs Commission, Barnabas Fung, said on Monday he's very sorry for the delay in the announcement of the Election Committee results, saying the time needed "far exceeded reasonable expectations". He had said on Sunday tha...

The poll to select the Election Committee has closed, with a voter turnout of around 90 percent by 10pm. It's the first vote since Beijing revamped Hong Kong's electoral system. The expanded committee has 1,500 seats and is tasked to select the nex...

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...