The Centre for Health Protection on Monday reported three imported Covid-19 cases. The infected travellers flew in from Kazakhstan, the Philippines and Egypt. All were fully vaccinated and none had any symptoms. Hong Kong has so far reported 1...

Police on Monday said they had arrested a 43-year-old man in connection with the mob attacks in and around Yuen Long MTR Station on July 21, 2019. A force spokesman said the man, surnamed Tang, was arrested in Tsim Sha Tsui on Sunday. He was being ...

Former legislator Leung Kwok-hung on Monday lost a Court of Final Appeal bid to stave off a prosecution for contempt of Legco over his alleged snatching of a folder from an official at a meeting five years ago. The Court of Final Appeal (CFA) ruled ...

A 31-year-old man was on Monday sentenced to nine years in prison for what a judge described as the "senseless and most horrific" stabbing of legislator Junius Ho. Tung Pak-fai, who is unemployed, had pleaded guilty to wounding Ho and the lawmaker's...

Police say they have found the body of an officer who had been missing at sea since a patrol boat overturned on Saturday. The body of senior inspector Lam Yuen-yee, 37, was retrieved from waters near Tai O on Monday morning. Police Commissioner Ra...

Democratic Party member and former lawmaker Fred Li says the party could be making it too difficult for members to run for Legco, after a new internal nomination procedure was proposed at a general meeting on Sunday. No decisions were made at the m...

The Hong Kong Bird Watching Society warned on Sunday it is worrying that the number of sparrows in the city has decreased by around 30 percent in the past five years. The society said its surveyors found around 211,100 Eurasian Tree Sparrows in the...

The Democratic Party on Sunday stopped short of deciding whether it would field candidates in the Legislative Council polls in December. Speaking after a special meeting to deliberate on the matter, the party’s chairman, Lo Kin-hei, said members ...

A grassroots organisation on Sunday called on the government to step up its efforts to tackle unsuitable housing in Hong Kong, saying that Chief Executive Carrie Lam should come up with a timetable in her upcoming policy address to eliminate so-calle...

Police said they have charged a man for trafficking dangerous drugs, after officers seized over HK$100 million worth of ice in a shop in Hung Hom on Friday. He will appear in Kowloon City Magistracy for mention on Monday. Detectives said they stop...

Health officials on Sunday reported eight Covid-19 infections, all imported. The patients, aged between 13 and 64, flew in from the Czech Republic, Maldives, Spain, the Philippines and the United States. All but one, a 13-year-old boy, have either...

Security secretary Chris Tang said on Sunday that authorities would take into consideration a number of factors when judging whether it is legal for people to commemorate the ending of the student-led protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989,...

The Development Secretary Michael Wong on Sunday indicated that the amount of land Hong Kong still lacks for its future development "far exceeds" the original estimate made a few years ago. Back in 2016, planning officials had estimated that the SAR...

Executive Councillor Ronny Tong said on Sunday that a political party should disband if it doesn’t accept Hong Kong’s new electoral system. He was speaking on a radio programme ahead of the Democratic Party's special meeting, where members will...

Rescuers were searching for a policewoman who has gone missing after a patrol boat capsized on Saturday. The marine police vessel was in the waters off Tuen Mun, near Sha Chau, when it overturned at about 8am. Three out of four people who fell fr...

The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, which used to organise the annual June 4th vigil, has voted to disband. Members of the group held a special meeting on Saturday afternoon. Forty-one voted in favour of dis...

Health authorities on Saturday confirmed nine new imported coronavirus cases, with all but one of the patients found to be carrying the L452R mutant strain. The patients had arrived from the UK, Indonesia, Singapore, Kazakhstan, Nepal, Pakistan an...

The District Court on Saturday sentenced three people to up to five years and eight months in jail, after they were convicted of rioting near the Polytechnic University in 2019. The incident happened when hundreds of protesters inside the universit...

Security secretary Chris Tang said the possible disbandment of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China will not clear anyone of legal liabilities, nor will it affect the actions authorities are taking against the ...

The group Student Politicism has announced that it is disbanding after four of its current and former members were charged with national security offences. The group's convenor Wong Yat-chin, spokeswoman Wong Yuen-lam and two former members, Chan Ch...