The Consumer Council said on Tuesday that it has suspended the Consumer Rights Reporting Awards that it had co-organised with the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) and Hong Kong Press Photographers Association for two decades. In a statement...

Health officials on Tuesday reported two imported Covid-19 cases. The patients, who arrived from the Philippines and Turkey, had been double jabbed against the coronavirus. Meanwhile, the Centre for Health Protection ordered residents at Tower 1 of...

Roundtable legislator Michael Tien says he has learnt that authorities plan to make it compulsory for people to use the government's LeaveHomeSafe Covid app when going to any kind of restaurant, as part of efforts to persuade the mainland to scrap qu...

Large crowds of well-wishers gathered outside a funeral parlour in Hung Hom on Tuesday to pay their respects to late police chief inspector Lam Yuen-yee, who died at sea during an anti-smuggling operation. The service with full honours was attended...

The District Court on Tuesday heard that former student activist Tony Chung may plead guilty to secession and one count of money laundering. The former convenor of the now-disbanded pro-independence group Studentlocalism is accused of secession, co...

An NGO said on Tuesday that frontline officers at different government premises were apparently adopting very different standards over the mandatory use of the LeaveHomeSafe Covid-19 app, even though the government said things ran “rather smoothlyâ...

Legislator Frankie Yick on Tuesday urged the government to regulate fuel prices or subsidise the transport sector to help it deal with the rise in costs, saying fuel costs represent about 30-40 percent of operating costs. Data from the Consumer Cou...

The Department of Health on Monday warned the public not to take an oral product called Hemohim, saying it can cause liver damage. The department said the Hospital Authority had notified it on Friday of suspected poisoning cases, involving acute li...

Police on Monday said officers had arrested four people in Mong Kok over the weekend for alleged seditious intention over the display of a banner and other items. Officers did not specify what the items in question were but media reports say they in...

The former convenor of the Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF), Figo Chan, was on Monday fined HK$8,000 by the West Kowloon Court after pleading guilty to failing to comply with a police request to submit information. Acting chief magistrate Peter Law h...

The government has confirmed that it will end Covid quarantine exemptions for all but a handful of groups from November 12, in a bid to resume quarantine-free travel with the mainland as quickly as possible. At the moment some travellers from overse...

Queues formed outside some government-run wet markets on Monday as people struggled to use the government's LeaveHomeSafe Covid app for the first time. Use of the app is now compulsory to enter government buildings, with only children, the elderly a...

Some smartphone retailers said on Monday they had sold out of cheaper models as customers rushed to buy mobiles to comply with a new rule making use of the LeaveHomeSafe app compulsory at government buildings. A shopkeeper surnamed Chan in Mong Kok'...

Health officials on Monday reported one new imported Covid-19 case. The patient is a 56-year-old airline worker who recently flew in from Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, the Centre for Health Protection reminded people who had stayed at Block H2 of Gracef...

Two people who staged a fake jewellery heist were on Monday jailed for conspiring to defraud an insurer out of about HK$2.5 million. The District Court heard that jewellery shop owner Leung Yim-kwan, 41, recruited Tang Ka-kui, 31, to stage the fake...

Police said five people were arrested on Monday morning for allegedly flouting a new rule that requires the mandatory use of the LeaveHomeSafe Covid-19 app when entering government premises. The five were suspected of using a fake app at Immigratio...

Five people pleaded guilty on Monday to organising, joining, or inciting others to join a banned June 4 vigil in Victoria Park last year, while three other defendants denied the charges. Just before their trial was to begin at the District Court, Le...

Civil Service Secretary Patrick Nip said on Monday that the government hopes to begin offering Covid-19 booster shots to vulnerable groups in about two weeks’ time. Nip’s remarks came a few days after an expert panel advising the government rec...

Police say two people have died in an accident involving three private cars on Bride's Pool Road in Tai Po at about 10.15 pm on Sunday. A motorcyclist also crashed nearby, and it is not yet known whether this is linked to the car accident. The two d...

A 57-year-old man died on Sunday, after falling from his bicycle and hitting his head. He had been riding the bicycle along a cycling track on Ting Kok Road towards Tai Po. When he was near 68 Ting Kok Road, he reportedly lost control and fell to th...