Health authorities on Sunday confirmed four more coronavirus infections linked to construction sites at the airport's third runway project – a day after ordering mandatory tests for around 3,000 workers. At least 15 people have come down with Covi...

Online applications opened on Sunday afternoon for a controversial new visa programme allowing Hongkongers with British National Overseas status to live and work in Britain – an arrangement Beijing says is a violation of the Sino-UK Joint Declarati...

The pro-Beijing DAB party on Sunday said it would tap the public for ideas on governance reform that would create a stronger and more responsive administration that can more effectively tackle deep-rooted problems in the SAR. It says the territory h...

A University of Hong Kong professor on Sunday urged the government to explore the possibility of replacing one mainland vaccine with another if it means the territory can launch its universal Covid-19 vaccination scheme earlier. Professor Lo Chung-m...

A pharmacists' group said on Sunday that the government should be publishing more information, in layman's terms, about the efficacy and safety of coronavirus vaccines, after a survey they conducted suggested that less than a third of people intend t...

Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung warned on Sunday that more coronavirus lockdowns may be coming soon despite a mixed response to three such exercises since Saturday last week. Writing in his blog, Cheung said the government’s goal remains reducing t...

The government says it is gravely concerned about the European Union's export controls for Covid-19 vaccines, announced on Friday. Hong Kong is expecting to start its vaccination programme late next month with jabs from the German manufacturer BioNTe...

Civic Party chairman Alan Leong has said he sees signs that Hong Kong could resume its role as a buffer between China and the ‘free world’ given recent developments indicating that Beijing is adopting a pragmatic approach in dealing with its west...

Authorities have issued a mandatory testing order for around 3,000 workers at two construction sites at the airport's third runway project following a cluster outbreak there. Speaking at a press briefing on Saturday, the Centre for Health Protectio...

The Deputy Director of Social Welfare, Lam Ka-tai, has died at the age of 59, after falling into a coma in office more than a week ago. It's been reported that Lam was found unconscious at the Social Welfare Department’s headquarters in Wanchai o...

SAR government vaccine advisors on Saturday said they would only approve Covid vaccines for emergency use after phase three clinical trial results had been provided. The government has placed one of its vaccine orders with mainland firm Sinovac, bu...

RTHK on Saturday said that one of its journalists, Nabela Qoser, had signed the new 120-day contract offered to her, after it terminated her civil service contract last week. The decision to terminate came as an internal investigation into complaint...

The Secretary for Justice, Teresa Cheng, said on Saturday that the SAR government will cooperate with any countermeasures brought in by Beijing against London's BNO policies. She made the comment a day before Britain officially opens application f...

Britain's foreign ministry says it is disappointed, but not surprised, by Beijing's decision not to recognise the British National (Overseas), or BNO, passport. Beijing made the move in response to the UK's opening from Sunday of a special visa schem...

Hong Kong on Friday evening followed China’s move to stop recognising British National (Overseas) passport from Sunday, accusing London of violating the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration by offering millions of HongKongers with BN(O) status a pat...

Beijing’s liaison office in Hong Kong on Friday accused the new chairman of the Bar Association, Paul Harris, of abusing his position to “cheer for independence advocates”, warning that his comments on the national security law will bring 'cata...

The Hong Kong economy has taken a record beating amid Covid-19. The economy shrank 6.1 percent in 2020, the worst annual economic performance ever. It's the second straight year the economy has contracted. GDP fell by 1.2 percent in 2019. In 1998,...

Health officials on Friday ordered some people living in a private residential building in Tsuen Wan to be put under quarantine after a cluster of coronavirus cases emerged there. Six residents from four different units on the 18th floor of Block R ...

Beijing said on Friday that it will stop recognising British National Overseas (BNO) passports as valid travel documents or for identification purposes starting from January 31. Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian made the announcement at a regul...

The coroner's court ruled on Friday a primary school teacher who fell from height at her Tin Shui Wai school in March 2019 committed suicide, and that a meeting with the principal the day before "pushed her over the edge". The coroner said the trage...