The Chief Executive, Carrie Lam, has defended the government’s unprecedented decision to impose a partial lockdown in Jordan, saying it was a matter of public health. Speaking to reporters after inspecting the restricted zone on Saturday, Lam sai...

Thousands of Jordan residents streamed to Covid-19 testing booths on Saturday, hours after the government made the unprecedented move of setting up a restricted zone in part of the Kowloon district, while imposing a 48-hour lockdown. Jordan is at t...

Officials on Saturday said around 10,000 residents, living in the part of Jordan currently under 48-hour lockdown, would have to take a Covid-19 test by midnight. It follows a 4 am move by the government to set up a restricted area and test everyone ...

The government on Saturday morning locked down an area in Jordan, citing chapter 599J of the Regulations on Disease Prevention and Control. The area designated as ''restricted'' in Jordan runs from Woosung Street in the east, Nanking Street in the s...

Yau Tsim Mong district councillors on Friday demanded clarification from the government over whether it will impose a partial lockdown on the Covid-19-hit district, after a day of swirling rumours that some people could be confined to their homes unl...

Police said they have arrested seven people for their suspected involvement in an investment scam involving HK$110 million. Officers said the seven have allegedly duped at least 182 victims into investing in projects involving low risk but attracti...

Representatives of the bar and karaoke industries have joined calls from owners of beauty parlours and cinemas for the government to allow their businesses to reopen ahead of the Chinese New Year. The government ordered karaokes and bars to close ag...

Authorities ordered all residents living in flats C at Kensington Plaza in Jordan on Friday evening to evacuate amid a Covid-19 outbreak in the building. The Department of Health said the residents will be taken to quarantine centres, while those wi...

Hong Kong's member of the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC), Tam Yiu-chung, on Friday confirmed that local NPC deputies have written to Beijing, asking it to send Covid vaccines manufactured by mainland company, Sinopharm, to the ...

Health officials say they will send experts to investigate a Covid-19 outbreak at Kensington Plaza in Jordan, after residents in several flats there came down with the coronavirus. This came as Hong Kong reported 61 new Covid-19 cases on Friday, 55...

RTHK journalist Nabela Qoser, who enraged pro-government figures with her tough questioning of officials during the 2019 protests, has had her civil service contract terminated, the station's staff union said on Friday. Qoser, an assistant programme...

A pro-government healthcare workers' group and four unions in the medical sector say a survey they've carried out suggests Hong Kong doctors, nurses and dentists prefer China's Sinovac coronavirus jabs to those developed overseas. Medical Conscience...

The new chairwoman of the American Chamber of Commerce, Jessica Bartlett, said on Friday that she does not anticipate there will be a mass exodus of US capital from Hong Kong due to the implementation of the national security law last year. Bartlet...

A motion of thanks for Chief Executive Carrie Lam’s policy address was easily passed by the pro-government dominated Legislative Council on Friday, with all but two lawmakers voting in support of it. Lawmakers praised the city’s leader for featu...

The Food and Health Bureau says it will look into a coronavirus case involving a patient who reportedly received false negative results through community testing in the Yau Tsim Mong district before eventually testing positive in hospital. Dilip Ra...

An infectious disease expert on Friday urged the government to expand the scope of mandatory coronavirus tests in Yau Ma Tei, but rejected suggestions that residents should be made to stay at home until they get a negative result. Leung Chi-chiu ma...

Health Secretary Sophia Chan has said the government hasn't given up on Covid vaccines from mainland manufacturer Sinovac, even though the product hasn’t been approved for emergency use yet due to insufficient clinical data. A report released on T...

The new chairman of Hong Kong's Bar Association, Paul Harris, on Thursday said he will campaign for changes to the national security law to try to convince foreign countries to reinstate extradition agreements with the SAR that were suspended over co...

Experts advising the government on its Covid vaccination programme are recommending a phased approach, with residents and staff at care homes to get inoculated first, followed by healthcare workers and the elderly, before the programme is expanded to...

A green group said on Thursday that despite improvements in air quality amid Covid-19 outbreaks last year, pollution levels are still far exceeding the limits set by the government. Clean Air Network analysed data collected from both general and ro...