By Beiyi Seow A property downturn, slowing economy and war in Ukraine loom large over this week’s annual convening of China’s legislature, with policymakers expected to focus on shoring…

The new Covid-19 facility at Kai Tak Cruise Terminal will cater to elderly people with mild symptoms, authorities have said, alleviating the pressure on public hospitals collapsing under the weight…

Another week, another outrage. If our government really wishes to improve its public image it could start by discouraging its Chief Executive, Carrie Lam, from giving press conferences, or at least…

Hong Kong’s 2020-2022 election cycle will end with the selection of the chief executive, a post equivalent to the governor in colonial days, but far less powerful. This final step was originally sc…

Hong Kong’s fifth wave of Covid-19 is infecting tens of thousands of people daily and has breached the households of top officials. Yet even as their staff, drivers, or even close family memb…

“S” was midway through his shift two Sundays ago when he was called to an isolation facility where an 18-month-old baby and her parents – all three of them Covid positive – …

By Angeline Chan Last Wednesday, “Fast Beat” Tam Tak-chi was convicted in the District Court of uttering seditious words, conspiracy to utter seditious words, and other charges. This is…

The International Paralympic Committee on Saturday said it has asked China’s state broadcaster to explain the apparent censorship of its president’s forceful anti-war speech at the open…

China’s military budget — the second-largest in the world after the United States — is set to increase by 7.1 percent in 2022, Beijing announced on Saturday. Some 1.45 trillion yu…

Hong Kong’s Covid-19 death rate is now the highest in the developed world, according to Bloomberg’s study of Johns Hopkins University data. Whilst the government kept the coronavirus at…

Authorities will reportedly deploy riot police to assist in the city’s upcoming mass Covid-19 testing as Hong Kong continues to battle a growing outbreak. Local media said over the weekend th…

A Hong Kong official has called on employers to show “kindness” to their domestic workers amid the city’s Covid-19 outbreak, two weeks after warning that a campaign raising funds …

Individuals who refuse to comply with quarantine orders requiring them to be sent to community isolation facilities may commit the offence of obstructing public officers, the Hong Kong security chi…

Hong Kong will not halt public transportation during mass Covid-19 testing later this month, transport chief Frank Chan has said. Speaking on Commercial Radio on Monday, the official said there was…

The government’s website for Covid-19 patients to report their positive rapid antigen test results launched on Monday. The CHP website for self reporting positive Covid-19 results from a rapi…

About 6.3 million Hong Kong residents will receive the first HK$5,000 instalment of the HK$10,000 consumption vouchers in April, the city’s finance chief announced on Monday. The handouts wil…

China on Monday reported its highest number of coronavirus cases in two years as clusters emerged in more than a dozen cities, posing a fresh challenge to Beijing’s zero-Covid policy. The cou…

A coalition of women’s groups has urged the Hong Kong government to provide more support to women who experience violence during the Covid-19 pandemic, as a study showed that close to 40 per …

Twenty-one years ago, Vicktoriia Tkachuk’s parents opened a Ukrainian restaurant in Hong Kong’s Central district. They called it Ivan The Kozak.  Kozak, or cossacks, are “a group of people who don’t belong to the government, like free warriors,” Tkachuk said.…

The US health authority has urged its citizens to “avoid travel to Hong Kong” because of the “very high level” of Covid-19 in the city. The Centers for Disease Control and P…

A top mainland Chinese Covid-19 expert has said that Hong Kong’s main concern is reducing the numbers of infections, serious cases and deaths, after spending over a week visiting the city&#82…