Chief Executive candidate John Lee’s YouTube channel was taken offline on Wednesday morning, in a move that his campaign chief slammed as ‘unreasonable.’ The head of Lee’s campaign office, Tam Yiu-chung, told reporters that the video-sharing...

Former People Power vice-chairman Tam Tak-chi was on Wednesday given a 40-month prison sentence after he was found guilty of seven counts of sedition. He was the first person to stand trial and be convicted under a colonial-era sedition law since t...

The government on Wednesday proposed doubling the plastic bag levy to HK$1, and a bill is expected to be tabled to Legco as early as the end of this quarter.  Last week, government advisers suggested raising the levy from the current HK$0.50 to HK$...

The government says it is extending the opening hours of four community vaccination centres designated for children on weekends and public holiday. The four vaccination centres at Gleneagles Hospital Hong Kong, Hong Kong Children's Hospital, Yuen C...

A leading microbiologist, Ho Pak-leung, said on Wednesday that he expects schoolchildren to eventually account for one in ten Covid-19 infections in Hong Kong, after the full resumption of in-person classes next month. When some primary schools reo...

The government said on Wednesday morning that some 150,000 people have registered in a new system as recovered Covid patients. Under the system that was launched on Tuesday, they’d be provided with a QR code that can be used instead of a vaccine ...

The government on Tuesday issued compulsory testing notices for 40 places across Hong Kong. Anyone who has visited any of these premises and stayed there for more than two hours since April 6 must get a nucleic acid test for Covid-19 on Wednesday or...

A man and a woman were given suspended jail sentences on Tuesday, as they became the first people to be convicted of inciting others to cast blank ballots in elections. Chan Kin-man, 36, and Alice Leung, 65, earlier pleaded guilty to reposting a so...

Police said they have taken three people into custody on suspicion of submitting fake positive rapid Covid-19 test results to the government’s online platform, in the first such arrests of their kind. Officers on Tuesday accused one man and two wo...

Researchers at City University said on Tuesday they have designed a “negative pressure” shield that can reduce the risk of cross-infection at elderly care homes. They said the shield, shaped like a house and used to cover the upper part of a be...

The government has launched a registration system for people who’ve recovered from Covid-19 so they can be exempted from the vaccine mandate for six months upon their recovery. The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) 's controller, Edwin Tsui, said...

The government says its plan to reform Hong Kong’s copyright law has received widespread support from the public. Commerce Secretary Edward Yau told a virtual Legco meeting on Tuesday that most people who gave views in a three-month consultation ...

Three of the city's major cinema operators said they will not serve food or drinks when they reopen on Thursday. The government had earlier announced that cinemas will be among many premises allowed to reopen and operate at half of their capacity, ...

A man who bit off a district councillor’s ear during the 2019 protests was on Tuesday jailed for 14 and a half years – the heaviest sentence to date arising from the unrest. The High Court heard that Joe Chen, 52, attacked three people with a k...

Authorities on Tuesday picked up seven Covid infections after locking down a block in Sheung Shui overnight for testing. There were also three indeterminate cases among the 1,660 residents living in Ching Chak House of Ching Ho Estate. The governme...

Many students said on Tuesday they are excited to be back in the classroom for the resumption of face-to-face learning, even though they have to take rapid Covid tests every day before school. Primary schoolchildren are the first to return after th...

Elderly and disabled people who are unvaccinated can book home inoculation services from Tuesday, and they could get a Covid-19 jab as early as next week. Those who are aged 70 or above, or homebound, can register through a government website or the...

Schools are putting in place special arrangements to prevent the spread of Covid-19 on campus as some of them resumed face-to-face classes on Tuesday after more than three months of suspension. Ching Chin-cheung, headmaster of the Chinese YMCA Prim...

The police are investigating a fatal traffic accident in Ngau Tau Kok on Monday afternoon in which a 41-year-old man died. At about 5.40 pm, a heavy goods vehicle driven by a 46-year-old man was travelling along the Kwun Tong Bypass towards Sha Tin....

The government on Monday issued compulsory testing notices for 40 places across Hong Kong. Anyone who has visited any of these premises and stayed there for more than two hours from April 5 to April 18 must get a nucleic acid test for Covid-19 on Tu...