Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Saturday that her government will step up efforts to “improve” Hong Kong’s education, media, as well as the training and management of civil servants, saying work in these areas are crucial in restoring confid...

Health authorities are urging people to stay vigilant during the Easter break, as the city recorded only two new Covid-19 cases on Saturday, with no infections being untraceable. The only local infection of the day involves a 5 year-old boy who liv...

Government officials have rejected suggestions that national security judges should sit on a vetting body that screens would-be election candidates in future, as questions persist on whether the committee should comprise only principal government off...

National security police should give teachers information on how to teach the revamped Liberal Studies subject without breaking the law, according to a history professor in charge of reforming the curriculum. Lau Chi-pang, who chairs a Curriculum D...

Hong Kong on Friday recorded seven new local Covid-19 cases, including one infection with an unknown source. The Centre for Health Protection’s Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan said the patient, 33, is unemployed and lives in Tseung Kwan O, and had bought tak...

The family of national security suspect, Andy Li, said on Friday that they finally heard from the man, whose whereabouts had remained unknown since he was brought back from the mainland last month. Li was among 12 Hongkongers who were intercepted b...

Police said on Friday that it had dissolved a scam syndicate that had allegedly cheated banks out of HK$85 million in credit card fraud. Officers arrested 24 people, aged 23 to 67 – including the mastermind and core members of the group – on su...

The head of the Small and Medium Restaurant Federation, Gordon Lam, on Friday urged the government to provide the sector with some money and more time to improve ventilation systems. Restaurants have been ordered to achieve a minimum of six air cha...

Swimmers on Friday said they were excited to be able to go back to public pools after waiting for more than three months. 35 public pools reopened on Friday, operating at 30 percent capacity, as part of the eased social-distancing rules announced e...

A history professor in charge of reforming the Liberal Studies curriculum on Friday said that concepts of "rule of law" and "social governance" were not included in the new subject Citizenship and Social Development's framework, because class time wa...

Environmental researchers have found that wearing surgical masks not only reduces the risk of coronavirus infection, but also our intake of cancer-causing chemicals floating around in the air. Members of the team from the University of Science and ...

The government on Thursday announced that two flights have been arranged to bring back scores of residents who have been stranded in the UK for months. The two Cathay Pacific flights – CX2252 – will depart from London on April 21 and April 28 at...

Travel industry representatives are preparing to launch a recruitment exercise to fill up to 2,000 temporary positions at Hong Kong's 24 community vaccination centres, for roles including customer service and administrative support. The government s...

Police are investigating a suspected murder-suicide case in which a man is said to have killed his wife in their Hung Hom flat before taking his own life on Thursday morning. Officers said the man had also attacked his two sons, 15 and 18, and kill...

A group of pro-Beijing figures warned on Thursday that they may organise a boycott of H&M unless the retail clothing giant apologises for expressing concern about reports of forced labour in the cotton industry in Xinjiang. A group – calling thems...

The government announced on Thursday that it will resume its BioNTech vaccination programme with a new batch of doses shipped over from Germany on April 5 – 12 days after their use was suspended because of “packaging defects”. The use of BioNT...

The government has proposed cutting lesson times for four core secondary school subjects, including the controversial curriculum formerly known as liberal studies, as part of a revamp. In a statement released on Thursday, the Education Bureau said t...

A landlord group says it is “unreasonable” for a government task force to suggest that only sub-divided flat tenants should have the say on when to terminate a lease in the first four years. The task force has proposed that tenants should get to...

The District Court on Thursday convicted seven prominent pro-democracy activists of organising and taking part in an unlawful assembly over their involvement in one of the biggest anti-government protests of 2019. Founding chairman of the Democratic...

The sister of national security suspect Andy Li said the lawyer who represented her brother in court on Wednesday was not hired by the family, raising questions if the situation is similar to how defendants were assigned counsels by mainland authorit...