Senior editors of online media outlet Citizen News on Monday explained they are closing down because they no longer feel safe to continue their work at an 'uncertain time' for the industry. The outlet's chief writer, Chris Yeung, said the decision ...

Ninety lawmakers were sworn in during an oath-taking ceremony in Legco on Monday. Chief Executive Carrie Lam officiated at the event, which began with those present singing the national anthem. The legislators-elect then took turns according to the...

Chief Secretary John Lee has condemned an editorial published in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), accusing the paper of misleading readers about the situation in Hong Kong. Headlined "No One Is Safe In Hong Kong", the editorial published on December 2...

A representative of the catering business has expressed worries that stricter vaccine mandates will cost restaurants at least a fifth of their business. Chui Man-wai from the Institute of Dining Professionals said on a radio programme on Monday tha...

The chairman of the Lan Kwai Fong Group says the bar and nightlife district did record business during the Christmas and New Year period, as travellers stayed in Hong Kong for the holidays and spent their money on dining and partying. Allan Zeman to...

Hong Kong's 90 newly elected lawmakers will be sworn in at a ceremony on Monday, marking the start of the new Legislative Council's four-year term. It's the first formal duty for the lawmakers, who were elected under Beijing's revamped electoral sys...

Online news outlet Citizen News on Sunday said it will cease operations starting from Tuesday. The announcement comes four days after Stand News announced that it was ceasing all operations on Wednesday, following a police raid on its office which ...

Health authorities on Sunday reported a preliminary positive Covid-19 case involving a woman who had dined with her husband at the Moon Palace restaurant in Festival Walk, the centre of an Omicron outbreak. If the 38-year-old woman is confirmed wit...

RTHK has learnt that another person who dined at the Moon Palace restaurant last Monday has tested preliminary positive for Covid-19. If confirmed, it would be the fifth Covid-19 case linked to the Kowloon Tong eatery at the centre of an Omicron ou...

Police on Sunday said they arrested a 37-year-old man after he allegedly attacked four people in Kowloon City. The force said the man is suspected of attacking a woman and stealing her phone, attacking a man who tried to stop him, punching a car dri...

Health Secretary Sophia Chan said on Sunday that the authorities are still trying to identify some of the 200 people who dined at a Kowloon Tong restaurant at the centre of an Omicron outbreak. She said during a radio programme that most of the dine...

Secretary for Labour and Welfare Law Chi-kwong said on Sunday Hong Kong's quota for foreign domestic helpers needs to be increased while stressing the need to tackle a shortage of hotel quarantine space. In his blog, he explained that 1,138 rooms pr...

Health authorities on Sunday said no Covid-19 cases had been found in three overnight lockdowns in Ma On Shan, North Point and Tung Chung, that have been linked to Cathay Pacific aircrew. Block 6 of Villa Athena in Ma On Shan was the last to be loc...

Cathay Pacific on Saturday announced that it has fired two aircrew members who are suspected of breaching Covid protocols. The airline's announcement comes a day after Chief Executive Carrie Lam summoned its chairman and CEO to express the governme...

The government on Saturday locked down buildings in three districts, including Block 6 of Villa Athena in Ma On Shan, where a woman who dined at the Moon Palace restaurant lives. The 50-year-old tested preliminary positive for Covid-19. The restaura...

Hong Kong reported 17 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, 16 of them imported and the other classified as a possibly import-related case. The Centre for Health Protection said the possible case was an airport ground crew staff member who lives in Gr...

A government advisor on Covid-19 vaccination on Saturday said more venues, such as wet markets, should be made off-limits to those who hadn't had a jab, should the administration's vaccine passport policy fail to encourage more people to get inoculat...

Top microbiologist Yuen Kwok-yung says progress here in developing a nasal spray vaccine against Covid-19 has been extremely slow due to insufficient investment. Speaking on RTHK's Chinese-language radio programme "Hong Kong Letter on Saturday", th...

Health officials on Saturday said they had found no new Covid-19 cases following an overnight lockdown at a residential building in Tin Shui Wai. Authorities sealed off Block 2 of Grandeur Terrace, 88 Tin Shui Wai Road, on Friday evening as a preli...

Large crowds gathered in different areas across Hong Kong on Friday night to usher in the New Year. Thousands attended a countdown concert in West Kowloon, while there were also celebrations on both sides of the harbour. Some of the revellers told...