Health authorities on Monday reported seven new imported Covid-19 cases. Six of the infections involved mutant strains while the viral load of the remaining case was insufficient for mutation tests. The patients, aged between 18 and 78, arrived fr...

New People's Party chairwoman Regina Ip says she is pleased with her party's performance in Sunday Legco polls, which she found attracted a "respectable" turnout. Her party saw five out of six candidates securing a Legco seat. The incumbent legis...

A vice-president of Beijing's top think tank on Hong Kong says the new Legislative Council will “function effectively as the guardian of national security and unity”, as it is now under the complete control of patriots. In an article published ...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Monday hailed the newly-elected Legislative Council, saying the poll winners are broadly representative of the people, while acknowledging that the turnout rate for the directly-elected geographical constituency seats wa...

Within hours of the conclusion of the first Legislative Council elections following Beijing's overhaul of Hong Kong's political system, the State Council published a white paper titled "Hong Kong: Democratic Progress Under the Framework of One Countr...

Former civil servant Mike Rowse says he thinks Beijing would have liked either him or businessman Allan Zeman to win seats in Legco to add some diversity, and he's surprised neither of them made it into the legislature after managing to enter the rac...

The observatory issued the Standby Signal No 1 at 11.20am on Monday, as Severe Tropical Cyclone Rai came within 800 kilometres of Hong Kong. The storm has weakened since causing havoc and deaths as it passed over the Philippines at the end of last w...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam will leave Hong Kong for Beijing on Monday evening for the final duty visit this term of her office, to report to state leaders on the SAR’s latest economic, social and political situation. The announcement came just a ...

Incumbents Felix Chung and Christopher Cheung are among the big-name losers in the functional constituencies in Sunday's Legco elections. Chung, leader of the Liberal Party who had represented the textiles and garment sector since 2012, was upset by...

Non-establishment candidates said apathy among pro-democracy voters was a key reason behind their poor showing in the Legco polls. Former lawmaker Frederick Fung, who lost in the Kowloon West constituency, said many people who support democracy feel...

Non-establishment candidates have been shut out in the geographical constituency races in the Legco elections. By contrast, the DAB has emerged as the big winner, with its candidates winning in each of the 10 constituencies. In Hong Kong Island Eas...

Turnout for the geographical constituency races in this year's Legislative Council elections stood at 30.2 percent. Most polling stations closed at 10.30pm on Sunday, with at least 1.3 million people having cast their ballots. Voter turnout in the ...

Businessman Allan Zeman and former government information coordinator Andrew Fung were among the losers in the Election Committee vote in Sunday's Legislative Council elections. The Election Committee results were announced at around 2:30am on Monda...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam has offered her gratitude to more than 1.3 million voters who cast their ballots in the Legco elections. In a statement issued on Sunday evening after the polling stations closed, Lam called the vote "an important election...

Vote-counting commenced across Hong Kong on Sunday evening following the Legislative Council elections – including at border checkpoints for the first time. Thousands of Hong Kong people living on the mainland had cast their ballots at the Heung Y...

Most polling stations closed at 10.30pm on Sunday for the 2021 Legislative Council elections, with at least 1.3 million people having cast their ballots. Polling hours for 11 stations were extended slightly to make up for slight delays earlier in th...

Election authorities say 1,248,648 voters had cast ballots by 8.30pm on Sunday in the geographical constituency races of the 2021 Legislative Council election. This represents a turnout of 27.9 percent. At the same time in the previous polls in 201...

Turnout for the 2021 Legislative Council elections continued to rise in the final hours of polling on Sunday, with authorities reporting that 1,184,829 people had cast their ballots by 7.30pm. The turnout of 26.5 percent for the directly-elected geo...

The Electoral Affairs Commission's chairman, Barnabas Fung, said on Sunday that he would not comment on whether the offer of free public transport on polling day has had any effect on the turnout rate for the Legco poll, only saying that the travel o...

More than a million Hongkongers had voted in the Legislative Council elections by early Sunday evening. As of 5.30pm, 1,033,968 votes had been cast for the 20 seats in the ten geographical seats. That's a turnout rate of 23.12 percent. At the same...