Two more people were on Tuesday charged by the ICAC for obtaining fake Covid vaccine records.    The construction worker, 67 and the foreign domestic helper, 37, came from the same household, in which two other family members were also earlier char...

Health authorities said on Tuesday that they are investigating a report of a primary school pupil being given an empty syringe instead of the Covid vaccine. The Department of Health said a student nurse who administered the shot was from an outreac...

The Foreign Ministry's office in Hong Kong on Tuesday strongly condemned foreign criticism of a sedition-related arrest by national security police the day before. A spokesman for the Commissioner’s Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hon...

A 23-year-old man who took part in an anti-government protest in 2019 was on Tuesday sentenced to three years and six months in prison.   The District Court heard that Kwok Ka-fai and eight others joined a protest on August 11, 2019 in Tsim Sha Tsui...

Researchers at Polytechnic University said on Tuesday that they had developed a new portable device offering a faster and more convenient way of testing for Covid-19 than traditional PCR tests in laboratories. Using gold nanoparticle and RT-LAMP te...

Health authorities on Tuesday found 24 Covid infections after locking down two buildings in Kwai Chung and Tin Shui Wai. Sixteen of the cases were from Hei Lai House of Wah Lai Estate. The other eight were picked up at Shui Fung House of Tin Shui ...

Chief Executive hopeful John Lee said on Tuesday that enacting Article 23 of the Basic Law to introduce Hong Kong’s own national security legislation will be a priority if he’s elected, but stressed that it will not be his only focus. The bill ...

Undersecretary for education Christine Choi on Tuesday dismissed concerns that there will be a labelling effect on unvaccinated students who can't take part in extracurricular activities, saying they can still attend regular lessons. Face-to-face cl...

The government on Monday issued compulsory testing notices for 30 places across Hong Kong. Anyone who has visited any of these premises and stayed there for the length of time and on the dates specified must get a nucleic acid test for Covid-19. Th...

The Customs Department on Monday said it had seized 47,000 Covid tablets suspected of being illegally imported, along with tens of thousands of other suspected controlled pills. It said it had confiscated a total of 117,000 tablets and 900 vials of ...

Unionists on Monday called on the government to allow people who used to earn more than HK$30,000 per month to apply for its jobless subsidy. To be eligible for the one-off HK$10,000 subsidy, one must have worked for at least a month from October to...

New Covid infections in Hong Kong have dropped below 1,500, with cases from both PCR and rapid tests falling into triple figures. The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) on Monday reported 1,407 locally transmitted cases, down from 1,921 the day befo...

Kowloon City Court on Monday fined five men HK$1,000 each after they were caught playing mahjong on an MTR train last year. The court heard that police detectives arrested the five, aged between 20 and 27, in November last year, about a month after...

Chief Executive hopeful John Lee on Monday met with around 10 political parties and groups to garner support, a day after revealing that he has already received about 300 endorsements for his leadership bid. The former chief secretary has until Thu...

The government on Monday locked down two buildings, in Kwai Chung and Tin Shui Wai, after sewage samples there were found to contain the coronavirus. Residents of Hei Lai House at Wah Lai Estate and Shui Fung House at Tin Shui (II) Estate were requi...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced on Monday that all students and school staff must test for Covid daily when face-to-face classes resume in phases from April 19. Speaking at her daily press briefing, Lam said it’s important to allow some 800,...

The government has been urged to allow vaccinated students to take Covid tests once or twice a week, instead of daily, when schools resume face-to-face classes after the Easter holidays. The call was made by the head of the Subsidised Primary Schoo...

John Lee's campaign chief on Monday said there may be little time for Hongkongers to go through Lee’s election manifesto – which is still a work in progress – but people can nevertheless support the former chief secretary's bid for the top jo...

Veteran journalist Allan Au was arrested by national security police on Monday morning for alleged sedition, RTHK has learnt. He was reportedly taken to Kwai Chung police station. In a statement, police said officers from the national security dep...

The government on Sunday issued a compulsory testing notice for 25 locations in Sha Tin, Shau Kei Wan, Yuen Long, Tai Po, Tin Shui Wai, Lam Tin, Shek Kip Mei, Kowloon Bay, Sau Mau Ping, Kwai Chung, Tseung Kwan O, Sham Shui Po, Kwun Tong, Diamond Hill...