Voters in this Sunday's Legislative Council elections can wear yellow face masks if they so wish but should steer clear of displaying sensitive words an official warned on Tuesday. Barnabas Fung, the chairman of the Electoral Affairs Commission, con...

An election official says vote-count supervisors have been told not to be too strict about rules and procedures so they can get the results of Sunday's Legco polls out quicker. Barnabas Fung, the chairman of the Electoral Affairs Commission, said o...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said it is impossible for the government to introduce a point-based system to decide who gets to travel quarantine-free to mainland first, as it would be difficult to decide whether one case is more urgent than another. T...

Police have arrested 10 people over an alleged weapons find they say could be linked to this weekend’s Legco elections. The force on Tuesday said it raided 11 residences and two warehouses, seizing around 200 air guns, more than 6,000 lead pellets...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam says an RTHK programme on the Nanjing Massacre which left some young school children in tears was in the public domain and education officials had a duty to tell teachers that it was available. Parents complained after pup...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam says public transport companies are voluntarily providing free transport on Sunday as part of their corporate social responsibility to encourage people to vote in the Legislative Council elections. Lam conceded that most v...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam says she has instructed officials to expand the Covid booster programme to cover people who have received the BioNTech vaccine as the world races against the spread of the Omicron variant. At present, people who had a sec...

One of the most competitive races in Sunday's Legislative Council elections is in the New Territories North geographical constituency, where four candidates are battling it out for the two seats on offer. They spoke to RTHK about their motivations f...

The securities watchdog said on Monday evening that Hong Kong corporations would have until Friday to pre-register for a scheme allowing quarantine-free travel to the mainland. In a circular, the Securities and Futures Commission said each licensed ...

Hong Kong on Monday recorded two more cases of the Omicron coronavirus infection, bringing the total to seven. Genome sequencing showed a 62-year-old man and a 50-year-old woman – who arrived from the UK on Friday and were listed as confirmed cas...

The Office of the Chief Executive said on Monday that it has received a threatening item of mail addressed to Carrie Lam, and has reported the case to the police. In a statement, the CE's Office said the envelope contained a blade as well as an int...

The chairwoman of the Independent Police Complaints Council, Priscilla Wong, said her council will not look into a case, in which a suspected police officer allegedly showed his warrant card to an online shop owner as he pressed the vendor about a de...

Hong Kong men who visit prostitutes have been urged to check in with the government's LeaveHomeSafe app and keep their face masks on during sex, after a survey suggested many are brushing off the risk of catching Covid from their activities. The Hon...

A 31-year-old man was arrested on Monday in the first case initiated by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) under Hong Kong's new anti-doxxing legislation. The PCPD said the case is believed to be linked to a money disput...

Researchers at the University of Hong Kong on Monday warned that some elderly people and patients with chronic diseases may have avoided seeking medical treatment in hospital because of concerns relating to the pandemic, and this could have had dire ...

The District Court on Monday sentenced eight activists to between 4.5 months and 14 months in prison for their roles in a banned June 4 vigil in Victoria Park last year. Lee Cheuk-yan, Richard Tsoi, Leung Yiu-chung, Leung Kam-wai and Wu Chi-wai earl...

Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai said on Monday that he was willing to suffer the punishment if remembering June 4 was a crime, hours before he was expected to be sentenced over a banned vigil in Victoria Park last year. Lai and activists Chow Hang-tun...

The Jockey Club said on Monday that three jockeys who were hospitalised after a major fall at the Hong Kong International Races on Sunday were in a stable condition and would take some time off to recover. Four horses were caught in the pile-up dur...

Children at a Tuen Mun primary school are being offered counselling after pupils as young as six were made to watch graphic footage of the Nanjing Massacre, leaving some frightened and in tears and prompting complaints from parents. The Po Leung Kuk...

A respiratory medicine expert says people should get vaccinated against Covid-19 as soon as possible, instead of waiting for drug manufacturers to develop new vaccines against the Omicron variant. David Hui made the comment on an RTHK programme on ...