A pro-Beijing heavyweight has said it would not be suitable to begin legislative work to enact Hong Kong’s own security law this year, citing the city’s need for post-pandemic recovery …

Hong Kong’s search and rescue team have found three survivors in the rubble of the earthquake which rocked Türkiye and Syria last week. Hong Kong’s search and rescue team respond to the…

Shuttered independent Hong Kong media outlet Stand News published op-eds about the pro-democracy camp’s 2020 unofficial primary election based on “public interest” and the importa…

Former legislator Au Nok-hin, one of the 47 pro-democracy figures charged in a landmark national security case, has begun his testimony as the first prosecution witness at the trial of his 16 co-de…

The Hospital Authority (HA) is to begin issuing digital medical certificates from March 6, as an alternative to hand-written paper sick leave notes. Hospital Authority digital sick leave certificat…

The resumption of cross-border ferry services between Hong Kong, Macau and mainland China could place Hong Kong’s declining pink dolphin population at increased risk, an environmental group has warned. Marine traffic has been identified as one of several…

Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee has said the addition of a national security provision to land leases, which allows the government to disqualify bids on security grounds, “has no relevance…

Hong Kong has raised the Cold Weather Warning, with temperatures expected to dip to lows of 12 degrees Celsius on Wednesday. A man in a winter jacket. File photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. “Under the in…

Hong Kong pro-democracy party League of Social Democrats (LSD) has urged the government to distribute HK$10,000 in cash handouts to residents and voiced opposition for “white elephant” …

The former top editor of Stand News has denied the prosecution’s accusation that the now-defunct online outlet had served as a “platform” for democrats taking part in an election …

Hong Kong’s free-to-air television and radio broadcasters have been ordered by the government to air at least 30-minutes of patriotic and national security programming per week. China and Hon…

The founder of Hong Kong’s Clockenflap has told HKFP that seeing the city’s premier music festival return for the first time since 2018 is a “wonderful feeling.” Clockenflap…

On Sunday, athletes from around the world competed in the Hong Kong Marathon. By all accounts it was very successful, with both the weather and the virus cooperating to produce a brilliant event. U…

Hong Kong police have denied that they are putting “too much effort” into safeguarding national security amid an increase in the city’s crime rate, driven largely by a leap in fra…

Hong Kong lawmakers have urged the government to crack down on domestic workers’ “job-hopping” and step up regulations of employment agencies, proposals that have been slammed by a union as “racist.” Legislator Frankie Ngan, a member of the pro-Beijing Democratic…

The Danish sculptor behind a monument to those who died in the Tiananmen crackdown has considered taking legal action against the University of Hong Kong (HKU), which the artist said has repeatedly…

Five members of the League of Social Democrats (LSD), one of the few pro-democracy groups that remains active in Hong Kong, have each been fined HK$4,500 for breaching the Covid-19 public gathering…

Hong Kong has told a United Nations (UN) committee that the city’s trade union rights are “strong and intact as ever” as officials faced a grilling over the impact of the national…

Politicians should be allowed to criticise the local and national governments as part of Hong Kong’s commitment to free speech, according to an editor on trial for sedition – the first journalist in the city to face such a charge for decades. Lead prosecutor…

A Hong Kong court has sentenced seven people to up to three years in jail for rioting in Admiralty, when the city was in the throes of the 2019 anti-extradition unrest. Eight defendants – Won…

Arrivals in Hong Kong were down 92.6 per cent in January compared to 2019 figures supplied to HKFP by the Tourism Board. Photo: GovHK. Last month, 498,689 people visited the city, whilst 6,784,406 …