Health officials said on Tuesday that more than half of the territory's latest coronavirus infections involve people living in the Yau Tsim Mong area of Kowloon. There are 56 new coronavirus new infections, all but one locally acquired. Thirty-one ...

Hong Kong’s latest unemployment rate has climbed to 6.6 percent – the highest in 16 years. The latest jobless figure, which covered the three-month period from October to December last year, was up 0.3 percentage points from the 6.3 percent for...

The Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) says it will not appeal against the High Court's dismissal of its legal challenge over the police’s behaviour towards reporters at protests. The HKJA had accused the police of acting unlawfully by faili...

Customs officers said on Tuesday they have made the largest seizure yet of counterfeit face masks. In an operation last Thursday, officers confiscated 330,000 fake N-95 medical-grade masks in a logistics company in Kwai Chung. Authorities said the...

Government labour advisers on Tuesday accused officials of wrongly claiming that there's a consensus over a proposal to wait until 2030 to give blue-collar workers the same number of public holidays as office staff. In papers submitted to Legco last...

An infectious disease expert has called on the government to further tighten social-distancing rules in light of a resurgence of Covid-19 cases, and implement crowd control measures in shopping malls in anticipation of the Chinese New Year next month...

The government has extended work-from-home arrangements for its employees in light of the coronavirus outbreak. It announced on Tuesday that staff will be working from home until January 27, except for those who provide emergency and essential publi...

The Chief Executive, Carrie Lam, on Tuesday announced that the government will step up coronavirus testing in Sham Shui Po, Yau Ma Tei and Jordan amid a rise in infections in the three areas. Speaking before the weekly Executive Council meeting, Lam...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam says she doesn’t think that making Hong Kong’s civil servants pledge allegiance to the SAR and the government will damage their morale. The territory's 180,000 government workers have been given four weeks to sign a de...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam says it is "understandable" if Beijing feels there is a need to revamp Hong Kong's political system, as what has happened in the SAR in the past few years has been "worrying". Lam made the remark on Tuesday when she was a...

Ocean Park's plan to radically change its business model has been welcomed by people in the tourism sector, but some residents have called for higher transparency over the park's finances. Under the new model, the theme park will scrap its entrance ...

The government's advisers on coronavirus vaccines have given their unanimous backing to the BioNTech jabs the administration has bought, paving the way for them to be used to inoculate Hong Kong residents. The 12-member Advisory Panel on Covid-19 Va...

The number of new coronavirus cases in Hong Kong hit a one-month high on Monday, reaching triple figures. Health authorities reported 107 new infections. One hundred and two are locally acquired, including a family of eight. Forty-two patients contr...

China has slapped sanctions on the United States after six Hong Kong and mainland officials were singled out by Washington over the arrests of more than 50 pan-democratic figures this month over last year's Legco primaries. Foreign Ministry spokeswo...

A man who claimed to be a volunteer first-aider was on Monday given a four-year prison term and fined HK$5,000 over a protest in Causeway Bay in 2019. The District Court had earlier found Chan Cho-ho guilty of rioting and possessing an unlicensed r...

Drivers will soon be able to pay their parking meters remotely. The Transport Department said on Monday that in order to do so, drivers will have to install a smartphone app it developed and use the phone to scan a QR code to link it with the meter ...

The government on Monday said people flying into Hong Kong from February 20 will have more low-cost hotel rooms to choose from to spend their 21 days of quarantine. Secretary for the Civil Service Patrick Nip, who is in charge of the hotel quarantin...

The government is planning to pump billions of dollars into Ocean Park to help it stay afloat, as the cash-strapped attraction switches to a new business model. The park revealed on Monday that entrance fees will be waived, and its 42,000 square me...

Civil service minister Patrick Nip said it's reasonable for civil servants to express their opinion on certain policies, but it could become a problem if those views are in conflict with their identity as government workers. He was explaining to law...

The government on Monday was urged to offer more support to people who have recovered from Covid-19, after a survey suggested that a majority of those who end up in hospital are left with at least one persistent symptom of the disease. Researchers f...