The District Court on Saturday jailed 21 people who were found guilty of taking part in a riot in Sheung Wan two years ago. They were given prison sentences of between 30 and 42 months for rioting in the area between Western Street and Queen Street...

Police said on Saturday that they had arrested eight more staff members of a foster home in Prince Edward over allegations of abuse. Officers said the latest arrests came after they reviewed more security camera footage recorded between September a...

Health officials said on Saturday that a contaminated swab might have led to the preliminary positive Covid-19 test result of an RTHK host, and further tests showed she was not infected after all. She was at a party hosted by legislator Witman Hung...

More senior government officials have apologised for attending a party with over a hundred guests where they were exposed to people infected with Covid-19. The undersecretary for innovation and technology, David Chung, and the political assistant t...

Health Secretary Sophia Chan on Saturday said the government will consider ordering close-contacts of confirmed Covid-19 cases to be isolated at home instead of sending them into quarantine camps if the facilities become too overwhelmed. Her commen...

The Civil Engineering and Development Department has confirmed that the head of its Sustainable Lantau Office, Michael Fong, had joined a gathering on a yacht on Friday. The department said a total of 22 people were on the boat, and they had kept t...

The government said on Saturday it had found no new cases of coronavirus after overnight lockdowns of residential buildings in Wan Chai, Happy Valley, Ho Man Tin and Causeway Bay. . A government spokesman said that about 80 residents had been tested ...

The Chief Executive, Carrie Lam, said a thorough probe will be conducted to find out whether top government officials, who were at a large-scale birthday party which saw several attendees testing positive for Covid-19, had broken the rules. In a st...

The government has on Friday locked down four residential buildings in Wan Chai, Happy Valley, Ho Man Tin and Causeway Bay as part of efforts to rein in the spread of Covid-19. A government spokesman said all residents of Lee Shun Building on Lockh...

Health authorities on Friday said everyone who attended a birthday banquet at the centre of a growing Covid-19 scare – including about a dozen senior officials and 19 lawmakers – will be sent to the Penny's Bay Quarantine Centre after a second at...

The Insurance Authority said on Friday that it has appointed accountancy firm Deloitte to take control of Target Insurance, a listed firm that owns around 60 percent of policies in the local taxi market. The regulator said four other insurance compa...

An RTHK programme host has tested preliminary positive for Covid-19. The broadcaster said it was informed of the case on Friday morning by the host who works for its Putonghua channel. RTHK said she had hosted a show at one of its studios in the pa...

All same-day tickets were snapped up in half an hour on Friday at a Covid-19 mobile vaccination station at Wong Tai Sin Temple Square offering the BioNTech vaccine to members of the public over the next three days. More than 100 people had queued up...

Officials and lawmakers have drawn ire for attending a banquet on Monday night in a growing political firestorm. Members of the public who called in to an RTHK radio show expressed anger at those who were there. "Everyone around the world is fighti...

More people, among them officials and lawmakers, will be sent into quarantine after they went to a banquet attended by a woman who has since tested preliminary positive for Covid-19. The banquet, which is said to be held to celebrate the birthday of...

Infectious disease expert Leung Chi-chiu said on Friday the government should suspend face-to-face classes immediately to prevent the coronavirus from spreading further. Leung said on an RTHK programme that it is worrying that a Covid cluster involv...

Five overnight lockdowns concluded on Friday morning, with no preliminary positive cases found in more than 3,300 tests at blocks in Ap Lei Chau, Tai Po, North Point, Happy Valley and Ma On Shan. Health officials said they tested 720 residents at Bl...

The host of a banquet that's forced two government officials into isolation after a woman who later tested preliminary positive for Covid showed up has apologised and stressed that all guests were vaccinated and used the LeaveHomeSafe app. Witman Hu...

Home Affairs Secretary Caspar Tsui and the political assistant of the Development Bureau, Allen Fung, apologised on Thursday for going to a banquet attended by a woman who’s since tested preliminary positive for Covid-19. The two were sent to the...

The government locked down four buildings in Ap Lei Chau, Happy Valley, North Point, Tai Po and Ma On Shan on Thursday evening for mandatory Covid-19 testing, as part of efforts to rein in the spread of the Omicron variant. It said people must get ...