Health officials said on Wednesday it could take up to two weeks before the coronavirus situation in Yau Tsim Mong district stabilises, as the number of cases there continued to climb. Authorities reported 77 new Covid cases, 41 of them from Yau Tsi...

The government has proposed building a network of elevated moving walkways in Kowloon East as part of a plan to ease traffic congestion and "shape a green community" in the area. The proposal was revealed in papers submitted to the Legislative Coun...

Secretary for Justice Teresa Cheng on Wednesday lashed out at Britain's foreign minister, Dominic Raab, saying he had made "disgraceful" comments regarding the decision of a top UK barrister to take up the prosecution of a group of Hong Kong pro-demo...

The government says it aims to propose a historic building grading for the Bishop Hill underground reservoir within the first quarter of this year, and its antiquities advisers would be able to pass an official grading after a month-long public consu...

Police say they have arrested seven current and former bank staff over an alleged money laundering case involving HK$6.3 billion. Superintendent Yip Wing-lam from the Commercial Crime Bureau said it is the first time that local bank staff have been...

The Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (HKICPA) on Wednesday predicted an unprecedented fiscal deficit of HK$348 billion, saying the government needs to adopt a targeted approach to revive the economy. The group's estimate is in li...

A Sham Shui Po district councillor on Wednesday criticised the government's decision to ramp up Covid-19 testing in the area, saying it will only cause unnecessary worries among the residents who don't know why they're being singled out. Authorities...

The government said on Wednesday that it is prepared to further reduce the number of people to be allowed in the Lunar New Year flower markets if the coronavirus situation worsens, but insisted it doesn't plan to scrap the events altogether. The dir...

A British barrister who has come under fire for agreeing to prosecute prominent Hong Kong democracy activists has pulled out of the case, the SAR government announced on Wednesday. Queen's Counsel David Perry had agreed to lead the protest-related c...

Just a little over a week after the government announced that Hong Kong's traditional Lunar New Year fairs cannot be held this year, they're back on again – albeit with a string of conditions. On January 8, the government declared that the fairs c...

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, and an academic warned that the worst is not over yet. The latest jobless figure, which covered the three-month period from October to December last year, wa...

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...