A 48-year-old man was jailed for 12 months on Monday for indecently assaulting a 10-year-old girl. Leung Shing-cho claimed that he was massaging his friend's daughter last December when he sneaked his hand under the girl's clothes and touched her br...

Police said they have arrested a man after he was allegedly found carrying a knife in his bag when he entered West Kowloon magistrates' courts on Monday morning. Officers said they received a report at around 11:09am that security guards had found ...

The Consumer Council warned on Monday that some face masks on sale in Hong Kong have bacterial levels that exceed European standards. The watchdog said it tested 30 coloured or patterned face masks and found that in six of them, the bioburden levels...

The government says it will be arranging more Covid vaccine outreach services for kindergartens and child daycare centres to boost the vaccination rate among toddlers. Outreach vaccination teams previously visited these venues when at least 30 peop...

The government says a campaign to clean up Hong Kong will continue until at least 2024, but hopefully it won't need to last forever if people stop littering. Deputy Chief Secretary Warner Cheuk, who is overseeing the operation, told an RTHK programm...

Health authorities are appealing to parents to get their young children vaccinated against Covid-19, as a five-year-old patient remains in critical condition in Tuen Mun Hospital. Government advisor, Lau Yu-lung, told RTHK on Monday that last month...

The government on Sunday issued compulsory testing notices for 65 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...

Health officials said Hong Kong recorded 4,979 new Covid infections on Sunday, one day after the daily caseload topped 5,000. Of the latest cases, 4,764 were local infections and 215 were imported ones. Authorities said a girl, 5, remained in criti...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan on Sunday said easing quarantine rules and a fresh round of consumption vouchers are boosting the local economy, but warned that Hong Kong still faces headwinds such as rising US interest rates. Writing on his official ...

Labour minister Chris Sun said on Sunday employers should not prevent people with an amber code on their LeaveHomeSafe app from going to work, and that workers shouldn't have their pay docked either. Currently, after inbound travellers have spent th...

Former secretary for security Ambrose Lee died on Sunday morning at the age of 73. RTHK learned that he passed away in his sleep at his Sha Tin home. Lee joined the Immigration Department in 1974 and rose through the ranks. He became the head of t...

Deputy Chief Secretary Warner Cheuk said on Sunday that he’s confident that Hong Kong will become much cleaner after the launch of a city-wide operation against hygiene black spots. He was speaking after inspecting cleaners removing rubbish and a ...

Secretary for Security Chris Tang said the government is ready to take action against anyone who takes advantage of tensions between China and the United States to stir up chaos in Hong Kong. Speaking on a Commercial Radio programme on Sunday, Tang ...

The government on Saturday issued compulsory testing notices for 65 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. ...

The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) says an unvaccinated 5-year-old girl is in critical condition in Tuen Mun Hospital, after contracting Covid. She was admitted on Friday night after running a fever, and testing positive using a rapid antigen tes...

Executive Council convenor Regina Ip on Saturday said the headline of a interview she had done with Bloomberg created a misunderstanding, but added that she would be more careful with her words in the future, after her comments on stamp duty led to a...

Education minister Christine Choi said on Saturday that students with amber codes should go to school only if the campus environment is suitable. Under the new quarantine rules, which came into effect on Friday, inbound travellers will receive an a...

Deputy Chief Secretary Warner Cheuk on Saturday admitted inadequacies in the government hygiene efforts in the past and said the authorities would step up education to keep the city clean, adding that officials would review the penalty for littering....

Police said on Saturday they had arrested a married couple on suspicion of murder, following the death of a three-month-old baby boy in the early hours of the morning. The suspects are a 35-year-old man and his 24-year-old wife. Officers said the...

Health minister Lo Chung-mau has played down the likelihood of Hong Kong quickly doing away with quarantine hotels and moving to seven days of health monitoring instead. Speaking on two radio programmes on Saturday, he said the latest move to three ...