Eight people were jailed for up to 52 months on Friday and another was detained at a training centre over a protest in Tsim Sha Tsui on August 11, 2019. Two of them admitted taking part in a riot and seven were found guilty of the charge. A tenth pe...

A senior executive of the Airport Authority and the owner of a sub-contractor in the third runway project have been charged with accepting and offering bribes totalling $3.8 million. According to a statement released by the Independent Commission Ag...

Undersecretary for Security Michael Cheuk said on Friday that three Hongkongers have sought help from the authorities saying they are being held captive in Southeast Asia, in addition to eight others officials were already aware of. Cheuk told an RT...

The government on Thursday 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. ...

Security officials said on Thursday that they are aware of eight Hongkongers being held captive in Myanmar after apparently falling prey to human traffickers. Undersecretary for Security Michael Cheuk said the police's organised crime and triad bure...

Hong Kong's daily Covid tally surpassed 6,000 on Thursday for the first time since March. Of the 6,054 cases, 247 were imported. There were five more Covid-related deaths. Health officials said 1,886 patients were being treated in hospital, with ...

The High Court has spared Chief Executive John Lee from punishment over his late submission of copies of consent for election advertisements to the Electoral Affairs Commission. In a judgement handed down on Thursday, judge Queeny Auyeung said the n...

A former worker at a foster home in Prince Edward was on Thursday sentenced to six and a half months behind bars for abusing two toddlers. Cheung Wai-yin, 30, had earlier admitted to ill-treating or neglecting two boys at the Children's Residential...

The UK government has blocked the takeover of a British electronic design company by a Hong Kong-based firm, citing national security grounds. Britain's business secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, used the National Security and Investment Act to bar the ta...

Pro-democracy activists Benny Tai and Joshua Wong, and former lawmakers Wu Chi-wai, Alvin Yeung, Claudia Mo and Chu Hoi-dick, are among 29 people who plan to plead guilty to violating the national security law through their involvement in unofficial ...

The government has been urged to issue travel warnings for Cambodia and Myanmar over fears Hongkongers could be trafficked there in job scams. Authorities say five Hong Kong residents believed to be in Southeast Asia are currently unaccounted for. ...

A Highways Department official on Thursday said planned work to upgrade and widen Lion Rock Tunnel is needed because wear and tear may affect its operation in the long-run. Tony Cheung, a deputy major works project manager, noted that the south-bou...

The government on Wednesday 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. ...

Officials on Wednesday began inspecting large-scale electric sliding gates at government premises after the death of a security guard earlier in the week at Yaumatei Maternal and Child Health Centre. The security guard, 43, was struck by a falling c...

A man has been charged over allegedly disclosing the personal information of his former girlfriend without consent. This is the second time charges have been laid under the new anti-doxxing regime, which came into effect last October. According to ...

Hong Kong on Wednesday logged 5,757 new Covid-19 cases, including 5,563 local infections. There were also four Covid-related deaths. The Hospital Authority (HA) said 1,875 patients were being treated at hospital, including ten under intensive care....

The Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) on Wednesday said visitor arrivals last month were up 17 percent from June, to more than 48,000. In a statement, it said out of the 48,048 travellers who arrived in the city in July, 40,091 were from the mainland. ...

The Immigration Department said it will follow up on five cases of Hong Kong residents reported missing in Southeast Asia by their families. The department said on Wednesday it had received 17 requests for assistance since January from families of H...

The Hong Kong Bird Watching Society on Wednesday said the number of sparrows in the SAR has reached the highest level in five years, though they're still struggling to work out why. The group said its surveyors found around 287,000 Eurasian Tree Sp...

RTHK has learned that the Secretary for Justice, Paul Lam, informed defendants in the case relating to the pan-democratic camp’s Legco primaries in 2020 that their upcoming trial will be conducted without a jury. Lam reportedly said in relevant do...