A pro-Beijing union said on Wednesday that the number of statutory holidays for grassroots workers should be increased from 12 to 17 days within the next three years, far quicker than the nine-year time frame the government is proposing. Officials a...

Cheung Chau welcomed visitors on Wednesday for its annual Bun Festival, but for the second year in a row it was a rather subdued affair, with no parade, a much shorter than usual bun tower, and a ban on anyone scaling it. Huge numbers of people usua...

The president of the Public Doctors' Association, Arisina Ma, says she’s concerned the government will have too much sway over the selection of non-locally trained doctors under a new plan, and frontline medics will have little say on the matter. ...

Medical sector lawmaker Pierre Chan said on Wednesday that the government pushing ahead with plans to allow overseas doctors to work in Hong Kong can only be a political move, being as everyone else is focused on tackling the pandemic. On a radio p...

Beijing on Wednesday announced a new chief for its Foreign Ministry office in Hong Kong. Liu Guangyuan, a veteran diplomat, is taking over as commissioner of the ministry of foreign affairs in the SAR, replacing Xie Feng. Liu was China’s ambassad...

Hong Kong has tightened the quarantine rules for people arriving from Taiwan and Singapore, both of which are seeing a resurgence of Covid-19 cases, with some recent arrivals who are isolating at home instructed to go to hotels. Officials say the qu...

Mandatory coronavirus testing was ordered on Tuesday for nine schools where outbreaks of upper respiratory tract infection or influenza-like illness were recently reported. Health authorities said symptoms of those diseases are similar to those of C...

Police said on Tuesday they had wrapped up an investigation into the director of the force's national security department, Frederic Choi, and concluded the senior officer had not been engaged in any unethical or illegal behaviour. Chief Superintende...

The police said on Tuesday they had smashed a human trafficking and prostitution syndicate, and arrested 106 people in a joint operation with Guangdong authorities. Officers said 35 of those arrested were sex workers from the mainland who were smugg...

The government said on Tuesday a new committee will compile a list of up to 100 overseas medical schools to be recognised in Hong Kong, paving the way for permanent residents who studied medicine outside the SAR to return to the city and help ease a ...

The District Court on Tuesday denied bail for six veteran pro-democracy activists who pleaded guilty to organising an unauthorised protest on October 1, 2019, as they await their sentences. Upon an application by the Department of Justice, Judge Am...

Civil service unions have called on the administration to introduce a pay freeze, after the latest report by the official Pay Trend Survey Committee suggested pay cuts of up to 2.04 percent for government staff. The government-appointed panel on Tue...

The government announced on Tuesday that it's temporarily suspending operations of its office in Taiwan with immediate effect, but said the decision has nothing to do with the latest Covid-19 situation on the island. In a brief statement, the govern...

The incoming bishop of Hong Kong Stephen Chow on Tuesday said he is not afraid of commenting on controversial political issues, but believes “prudence is also a virtue”, as he sidestepped a number of contentious questions related to Beijing. Cho...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Tuesday responded to criticism of the city’s civil service by her predecessor CY Leung, who accused government workers of dragging their feet on housing problems. Leung, who served as chief executive in the five years...

The last store standing in Kwun Tong's Yue Man Square – a decades-old fruit juice shop – is being evicted on Tuesday to make way for a major redevelopment project undertaken by the Urban Renewal Authority. The elderly owner of the shop, surname...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam has brushed aside concerns that Hong Kong is too slow in reopening its borders, saying while her administration does want to resume cross-border travel, it must not sacrifice the safety of Hong Kong people. Her comment on ...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Tuesday dismissed what she called "attacks from western media" on Hong Kong's status as an international financial centre, saying the move to freeze the assets of jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai strengthens – rather than...

Activist-investor David Webb says prosecutors would need to argue in court how jailed tycoon Jimmy Lai - the founder of the pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper - benefited financially from alleged national security offences, after his shares in the p...

Pope Francis on Monday named Stephen Chow as the new bishop of Hong Kong, a long-delayed appointment that comes amid growing Sino-Vatican frictions and escalating Western concern over alleged human rights violations in the global financial hub. In a...