A cluster of Omicron infections tore through a locked-down Kwai Chung public housing block on Saturday, with authorities reporting that almost 100 people have tested preliminary positive for Covid – up from around 20 the day before. The Centre for...

The District Court on Saturday convicted nine people of taking part in a riot in Tsim Sha Tsui on the evening of August 11, 2019, while one defendant was acquitted. The court heard that the defendants, the youngest of whom was 19, joined a riot with...

The MTR Corporation said on Saturday that services have returned to normal after problems at Yau Tong Station affected the Kwung Tong line. It said it temporarily closed the Yau Tong station and suspended train services between Tiu Keng Leng and Kwu...

The Customs Department on Saturday said nine people have been arrested over the seizure of about 25,000 cannabidol (CBD) products that are suspected of containing a dangerous drug. Officers said they raided three warehouses as well as six shops acro...

Police said on Saturday that a 32-year-old civilian staffer living in Yat Kwai House has tested preliminary positive for Covid. They said she works at the Personnel Services and Staff Relations Branch. They said the woman last went to work at the ...

Sources say Covid testing at two public housing blocks in Kwai Chung Estate under lockdown have now found at least 70 preliminary positive cases. The government has imposed a five-day lockdown of Yat Kwai House which started on Friday. A lockdown...

Infectious disease expert David Hui said on Saturday he believes there is very little chance that the government will be able to relax the current social distancing measures when they expire on February 4. The government has re-introduced a ban on d...

The government said on Saturday it had completed an overnight lockdown of 35-37 Nam Cheong Street in Sham Shui Po, and also tested people nearby. No positive cases were found. They said they had verified that everyone affected by the exercise had un...

Authorities locked down another building in Kwai Chung at 4 am on Saturday morning because one positive Covid case, as well as two preliminary positive cases (with preliminary test results involving a mutant strain) live there. Residents of Ying Kwa...

Authorities have locked down a building in Sham Shui Po on Friday night after a preliminary positive Covid-19 case was reported there. Residents of 35-37 Nam Cheong Street are required to undergo tests overnight and they won’t be allowed to leave...

The government on Friday announced a five-day lockdown of Yat Kwai House at Kwai Chung Estate, banning people from leaving their homes, amid a major Covid-19 outbreak there. With more than 20 cases linked to the public housing block, Secretary for F...

Covid-19 appears to have spread from one housing block at Kwai Chung Estate to another, officials said on Friday, after two preliminary positive infections emerged in a block near virus-stricken Yat Kwai House. One of the suspected new patients is ...

The Foreign Ministry's office in Hong Kong on Friday expressed strong disapproval of the European Parliament passing a resolution regarding the SAR’s human rights situation, accusing the EU legislature of smearing Hong Kong and attacking China just...

Residents of a Kwai Chung public housing block hit by a major Covid outbreak are bracing themselves for overnight lockdowns and mandatory testing for the next three nights. Yat Kwai House at Kwai Chung Estate will be sealed off on Friday, Saturday ...

Medical experts on Friday said residents of a Kwai Chung housing block at the centre of a Covid-19 outbreak should be banned from leaving their homes for three days to prevent the virus from spreading. Professor David Hui of the Chinese University ...

A prominent medical expert has warned that measures that were effective against previous waves of coronavirus may not work as well against the Omicron variant. Benjamin Cowling from the University of Hong Kong's School of Public Health said on Frida...

Overnight Covid lockdowns have come to an end at three housing blocks in Tin Shui Wai, Tsuen Wan, and Cheung Sha Wan, after three residents had earlier tested preliminary positive for the coronavirus. Over 3,000 people were tested and no new cases we...

The government on Friday said the police may be called in, if people are stopped from handing in their hamsters to be culled. The government ordered the cull last Tuesday, after hamsters infected a Causeway Bay pet shop worker with the delta variant...

The government’s pandemic advisor, Professor Yuen Kwok-yung, announced late on Thursday that residents of Yat Kwai House on Kwai Chung Estate would have to undergo mandatory testing every night until and including Sunday, if they wanted to leave th...

The new Bar Association chairman, senior counsel Victor Dawes, said the association will continue to speak out for the city’s rule of law but stressed his group is not a political organisation. Dawes, the only candidate running for the association...