2025 in Hong Kong

Events in the year 2025 in Hong Kong.

Events

1 January – A crash involving five vehicles along the West Kowloon Highway near the Olympian City complex leaves three people dead and four others injured.

4 February – The United States Postal Service indefinitely suspends its acceptance of parcels from China and Hong Kong.
27 February – Former Legislative Council member Lam Cheuk-ting is sentenced to three years' imprisonment on charges of inciting violence during the 2019 Yuen Long attack.

11 March – Social worker Jackie Chen is convicted of rioting during the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests.
31 March – The United States imposes sanctions on Justice Secretary Paul Lam, security office director Dong Jingwei, police commissioner Raymond Siu and two deputies, and Committee for Safeguarding National Security secretary-general Sonny Au, for their role in persecuting exiled pro-democracy activists.

10 April – British MP Wera Hobhouse, a member of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, is denied entry to Hong Kong for undisclosed reasons.

30 May – Signing of the Convention on the Establishment of the International Organisation for Mediation.

12 June – The homes of six people are raided in the first publicly known joint operation by Hong Kong and mainland Chinese authorities under the 2020 Hong Kong national security law.
29 June – The pro-democracy League of Social Democrats announces its dissolution.

16 July – The government introduces the Registration of Same-sex Partnerships Bill, which proposes to grant limited legal rights to same-sex couples who have entered into marriages or civil unions overseas.
20 July – Tropical Storm Wipha hits Hong Kong, causing flight cancellations, fallen trees, and displacement of over 250 people.
23 July – High Court Judge Russell Coleman orders the suspension of regulations criminalising the use of bathrooms designated for the opposite sex following a petition by a transgender applicant.
25 July – The government places a HK$200,000 bounty on 19 members of the overseas pro-democracy organization Hong Kong Parliament.

4 August – Hong Kong cancels passports and bans financial support for 16 overseas activists under the national security law.
13 August – A court in Hong Kong convicts former J-pop idol Kenshin Kamimura for sexually molesting a female interpreter and related incidents during a fan meeting in the territory in March.

9–14 September – The Hong Kong Open Badminton competition is held.
9 September – High Court Judge Russell Coleman rules in favor of a petition by a lesbian couple seeking to be recognised as the parents of a child born after undergoing reciprocal in vitro fertilization in South Africa.
10 September – The Legislative Council votes against a bill that would have granted limited rights to same-sex couples who were married overseas.
18 September – A World War II-era bomb weighing about is discovered at a construction site in Quarry Bay, forcing the evacuation of 6,000 residents.
24 September – Typhoon Ragasa passes near Hong Kong, injuring at least 90 people.

15 October – The Legislative Council passes a bill that would require operating licences from online ride-hailing services.
20 October – Emirates SkyCargo Flight 9788, a Boeing 747 operated by Air ACT on behalf of Emirates SkyCargo, crashes into a airport security vehicle at Hong Kong International Airport before falling into the sea, killing the two people on board the vehicle.

26 November – At least 160 people are killed in a fire that sweeps through several apartment blocks of the Wang Fuk Court estate in Tai Po.

7 December – 2025 Hong Kong legislative election
14 December – The pro-democracy Democratic Party announces its dissolution.
15 December – Media magnate and Beijing critic Jimmy Lai is convicted on charges of violating the national security law.
18 December – Around 1 billion yen is stolen following a robbery targeting four suitcases carried by two employees of a Japanese cryptocurrency and luxury goods company in Sheung Wan.

10 January: Shiu Ka-chun, 55, democracy activist, MLC.
21 February: Khalil Fong, 41, singer-songwriter.
17 March: Lee Shau-kee, 97, business magnate, founder of Henderson Land Development.
31 May: Veronica Chan, 102, businesswoman, founder of the Asian Ladies Football Federation.
12 June: Charles Ho, 75, businessman, chairman of Sing Tao News Corporation.
27 June: Chua Lam, 83, Singaporean-born food critic.
3 July: Suet Nei, 79, actress.
4 July: Chow Chung, 92, actor.
16 July: Taylor Wong, 75, film director.
27 July: Henry Hu, 105, academic administrator and politician, founder of HKSYU, MLC and MUC.
28 October: Benz Hui, 76, actor.
31 October: Stanley Fung, 81, actor and comedian.
4 November: Lam Sheung Mo, 75, actor.