Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Saturday took aim at critics of Beijing’s moves to bring in the National Security Law and electoral changes to the SAR, saying any claim that the measures undermined the one country, two systems principle was mere "non...

Health officials on Saturday reported four new imported Covid-19 cases, all fully vaccinated and infected with the L452R mutant strain. The new patients flew in from the UK, Turkey, the US and Indonesia. They include a man who spent time in the UK...

Mainland Olympians on a three-day-visit to Hong Kong got a warm welcome from members of the public as they gave sports demonstrations on Saturday morning. The athletes, who competed in the Tokyo Olympics earlier this year, showcased their skills in...

The commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) Simon Peh said on Saturday that the anti-graft body is studying whether a pollster has violated election laws, by including the options of casting blank votes in a survey about ...

The director of broadcasting, Patrick Li, said on Saturday that RTHK has a duty to help to educate Hongkongers about the Basic Law and develop their national identity. At a flag-raising ceremony co-organised by RTHK, the Basic Law Foundation and the...

Government officials marked Constitution Day on Saturday by stressing the need for strengthened education about the Constitution and the Basic Law. Writing on his blog, Chief Secretary John Lee said anti-China disruptors had been spreading false an...

Security Secretary Chris Tang on Friday accused the online media Stand News of running what he called "biased, smearing and demonising" reports about the authorities' smart prison initiative. Stand News recently featured complaints from asylum seeke...

Police on Friday said they had arrested 11 people suspected of being part of a gang that allegedly laundered HK$220 million over the past two years. Officers said they arrested the eight men and three women, aged between 23 and 57, during an operati...

The first Chinese sprinter who reached an Olympic 100-metre final, Su Bingtian, said on Friday he's looking forward to a meaningful get-together with Hong Kong people and athletes in the coming days. He's among 29 Olympic athletes from the national...

Around 20 sailors are being held in quarantine on board their vessel in Hong Kong after one of their colleagues was diagnosed with Covid-19. The Glory Sky, a cargo ship, arrived in the territory from Japan on Wednesday. Officials say the 51-year-o...

The official in charge of Hong Kong's vaccination programme, Patrick Nip, said on Friday the SAR doesn't have to reach a target inoculation rate to open up quarantine-free travel with the mainland. But he said higher vaccination rates here would re...

MTR officials say they have removed a component from several advertising panels after a carriage door was ripped off a train in Causeway Bay on Thursday evening. Officials said on Friday that they believe a loose component caused the incident which...

Transport expert Hung Wing-tat says it's totally unacceptable to have loose parts from an advertising panel affect the safety of a train, and suggested that a switch to digital advertising could avoid problems in future. Hung was commenting on RTHK'...

An academic has warned that the SAR's newly-launched health code system will not work effectively if the government fails to cultivate public trust. Kris Hartley, an assistant professor of public management and administration at the Education Univer...

Hong Kong on Thursday announced stricter requirements for transit passengers coming from Taiwan and overseas after a traveller who spent days stuck at the airport was found to be carrying the Omicron Covid variant. The government said in a statement...

No confirmed Covid cases were found after health authorities on Thursday put a residential block in Lam Tin under overnight lockdown because a woman who lives there had tested preliminary positive for a mutant strain of Covid-19. The woman, 28, had...

The partial suspension of the MTR's Island Line during rush hour after a carriage door came off turned out to be a nightmare for commuters on a chilly Thursday evening. In Admiralty, long queues formed at taxi stands, bus stops and the tram stop as ...

MTR services between Wan Chai and Quarry Bay stations were suspended for about three hours on Thursday evening after a train carriage door came off. The railway operator said the incident, which happened at around 6pm, involved a train at Causeway B...

The District Court on Thursday sentenced a man who posted a message on Facebook encouraging others to attack police officers to seven months in jail. Tony Choi was earlier found guilty of incitement to cause grievous bodily harm. The court heard he...

The government has officially launched Hong Kong's health code system, but has stressed that there is no plan to use it within the SAR. People hoping to travel quarantine-free to the mainland once the border reopens will be able to sign up for a co...