The co-founder of the Occupy movement Benny Tai was on Tuesday sentenced to 10 months in prison after pleading guilty to illegally promoting his strategic voting scheme for the 2016 Legco polls in newspapers. He illegally incurred HK$253,000 in ele...

Cardinal Joseph Zen and five other people have pleaded not guilty to failing to register a now-defunct fund set up to pay legal and medical fees of anti-government protesters and are to be put on trial in September. The case against Zen, former legi...

A boy breaks a toy in a shop and his parents pay for it. It ought to have been as simple as that. Only the shattering events that took place at Langham Place in Mong Kok on Sunday evening have proved to be a lot more complicated. Photos circulating...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Tuesday said there is unlikely to be any relaxation to Hong Kong's pandemic border control measures before she completes her term at the end of June. Lam said imported infections now account for a significant share of t...

An expert in elderly care has urged the government to provide more support to help care homes upgrade their facilities and improve staffing levels. Vera Tang, deputy director of the Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies at Lingnan University, says...

Police said they're investigating a fatal traffic accident in Yau Ma Tei on Monday evening in which a 67-year-old woman died. They said that at about 6.01pm, a taxi driven by a 61-year-old man was traveling along Ferry Street towards Hung Hom, and r...

The government on Monday said it had ordered compulsory testing for Covid-19 at 40 locations across the SAR. 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...

Hong Kong health officials reported 190 new Covid cases on Monday, including 28 that were imported. Chuang Shuk-kwan from the Centre for Health Protection said although the daily caseload has fallen below the 200 mark, she expects numbers will conti...

The Law Society on Monday said it is looking into an allegation by national security police that a number of lawyers have committed professional misconduct. It said police made a complaint after looking into a case related to the now-defunct 612 Hum...

The Airport Authority on Monday said travellers will have to keep on paying the construction fee for the third runway project until at least 2033 – three years longer than originally planned. Officials explained at a Legco panel meeting that the C...

Police on Monday said a new platform for people to report suspected traffic offences has received more than 5,600 complaints in just over a month. The force began a trial run in April for people to submit videos or photos via WeChat of suspected vi...

A medical expert advising the government on Covid-19 on Monday sought to allay concern after a highly contagious subvariant of Omicron was discovered in Hong Kong, saying even if it causes any outbreaks, it’s unlikely to lead to serious illnesses o...

Secretary for Food and Health Sophia Chan on Sunday joined the World Health Organisation's annual World Health Assembly, saying she hopes to learn more about global public health issues including the fight against Covid-19. Chan is participating in ...

The government on Sunday said it had ordered compulsory testing for Covid-19 at 48 locations across the SAR, including an exclusive private club in Central. Anyone who has visited any of these premises and stayed there for the length of time and on ...

Former Chief Executive CY Leung on Sunday said there's a need to make patriotic groups stronger in universities and the media. He said even though Hong Kong now has the national security law and an improved electoral system, patriots can't simply t...

University of Hong Kong microbiologist Ho Pak-leung on Sunday said he believes the risk of a monkeypox outbreak in the territory is relatively low, despite a growing number of cases in Europe, North America and elsewhere. The virus, which causes dis...

Health authorities on Sunday reported 237 new Covid-19 cases, as they continued to look into whether the BA.2.12.1 subvariant of Omicron has seeped further into the community. Officials said their tracing work showed that three people from the same...

Police said on Sunday that two men had been arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking after officers found nearly 30 kilogrammes of cocaine hidden inside paper straws. During the operation, some ketamine and the date rape drug happy powder were als...

A concern group on Sunday complained that almost 900 public flats across the city are sitting empty when they could be used to house people with no place of their own. The group, an alliance focused on transitional homes policies, said it came up wi...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan has again urged people not to be "too pessimistic" over Hong Kong's future, despite the release last week of disappointing unemployment figures. In a blog post published on Sunday, Chan acknowledged that the city's lat...