The District Court on Thursday sentenced activist Ma Chun-man to five years and nine months in prison after finding him guilty of inciting secession by chanting pro-independence slogans. The court had heard during a national security trial that betw...

Police on Thursday invited people to visit an exhibition in Yuen Long designed to encourage Hongkongers to put aside their differences and stop themselves from being misled by "unfounded information". The exhibition entitled "United We Stand" at Yue...

The head of the West Kowloon Cultural District, Henry Tang, on Thursday appealed to the public to be open and inclusive when they view art at the M+ Museum, saying the works on display are a reflection of society's development. Speaking at a media p...

The City University said on Thursday that its president, Way Kuo, will step down in 2023, and it has started a global search for his successor. The institution's spokesman and vice-president Matthew Lee said Kuo has decided he will be leaving his po...

Queues formed at some vaccination centres on Thursday morning as people turned up to get a coronavirus booster jab. This came as Hong Kong started giving a third dose of vaccine to people over 60 and priority groups, such as those with compromised i...

Respiratory medicine expert Leung Chi-chiu said on Thursday that it’s an “extremely big loophole” to exempt some flight crew members from quarantine. He said it doesn’t make sense for the Hong Kong government to expect aircrew to observe so...

Official figures released on Wednesday showed that the number of people facing poverty in Hong Kong rose sharply to more than 1.6 million last year – the highest since the administration set an official poverty line in 2013 – though the increase ...

Health officials on Wednesday said Hong Kong may further tighten quarantine rules for exempted groups such as flight crew members after three of them were among the city's latest imported Covid-19 patients. Local flight crew are currently subject to...

A student was on Wednesday sentenced to three years and four months in prison after pleading guilty to rioting in Mong Kok and Prince Edward MTR stations on August 31, 2019. Wan Ka-lam, 22, was accused of vandalising certain facilities, including tu...

Prominent microbiologist Yuen Kwok-yung has proposed drastic measures to boost the city's coronavirus vaccination rate, saying people who have not been inoculated against Covid-19 should be banned from going to work, schools and public venues. In...

Chief Secretary John Lee has praised the Legislative Council for its “high efficiency” in scrutinising government bills. On an RTHK programme, he said Legco moved on from its “destructive age” to pass 46 bills in the past year, more than dou...

Organisers of the Gay Games say they are looking at using more private venues across Hong Kong because "challenges" remain in booking government premises. The Games were originally planned to take place in November 2022, but organisers decided to po...

The government said on Wednesday that it will be raising its Covid-19 risk level for people coming in from New Zealand from low to medium - meaning inbound travellers will be subject to at least two weeks of quarantine. The new arrangement will tak...

The Deposit Protection Board said on Wednesday that a poll it recently commissioned suggests Hong Kong people are saving less money than they have since 2018. People put away HK$6,600 on average every month – HK$400 less than last year – accord...

New World Development chairman Henry Cheng has reached a deal that will make him the largest shareholder in TV operator i-Cable. A stock exchange filing showed Celestial Pioneer, a company wholly-owned by Cheng, had agreed to pay HK$208.9 million t...

A pressure group said on Wednesday that a rise in power prices will hit grassroots residents in sub-divided flats particularly hard. The territory's two power companies have announced price increases from January 1, with charges to rise by 7 percen...

Long-time Hong Kong-based correspondent Harvey Stockwin has died, aged 88, after a long battle with cancer, according to his wife. He reported on and analysed Asian developments from 1955, including for 18 years on RTHK's award-winning weekly radi...

Health authorities on Wednesday lifted the lockdown at the Harbour Pinnacle building in Tsim Sha Tsui at 7 am. Around 300 residents were tested and no Covid cases were found. The lockdown was sparked by fears that an air-crew member - whose job means...

The ICAC on Tuesday arrested three people for allegedly sharing an online message asking people to cast blank votes for next month's Legislative Council polls. The two men and one woman, aged between 29 and 65, are accused of violating the Election ...

An NGO on Tuesday warned that an increase in electricity bills next year is likely to affect the city’s poorest people more severely, while a representative of the food and beverage sector said higher bills are yet another blow for the struggling i...