Global plastics production declined in 2020 as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, only the third time since World War II that output has fallen, an industry body said on Thursday. Output has fallen only twice previously, as a result of the oil cr...

Health officials reported two new Covid-19 infections on Thursday, with both patients believed to have brought the virus into Hong Kong with them from abroad. A 52-year-old man who flew in from Mauritania on Sunday was found to have the virus while...

Customs officers say they have seized goods worth HK$120 million in their biggest ever bust of a speedboat smuggling operation. Items including luxury bags and parts from endangered animals were being loaded onto a boat near Lau Fau Shan last Wedne...

Medical experts have told RTHK that it is unnecessary for the general public who have been vaccinated against Covid-19 to measure their immunity level by purchasing antibody tests – calling them a waste of money and warning that the results could b...

A patients' rights activist on Thursday urged Hong Kong businesses to help pay for grassroots people to have body checks to see whether they are healthy enough to receive Covid-19 jabs. Alex Lam, who chairs the group Hong Kong Patients' Voices, told...

One of Hong Kong's most famous hotels has told staff to get vaccinated or face the risk of layoffs after the end of this month if it fails to hit a target of having 70 percent of staff inoculated. The Peninsula in Tsim Sha Tsui is offering employees...

The European Union on Wednesday denounced Hong Kong's major overhaul of its political system as a breach by China of its international commitments and threatened to send a delegation to visit the autonomous city. The possible move is likely to irk B...

A government-appointed expert panel on Wednesday recommended testing the antibody level of inbound travellers who are vaccinated against Covid-19 so that their quarantine period could be shortened to seven days. But the experts said the quarantine p...

The Professional Teachers’ Union (PTU) appealed to RTHK on Wednesday to reinstate programmes it has deleted from the internet, saying the purge has had an impact on teaching plans. Around 85 percent of respondents to a PTU survey of 586 primary an...

The MTR Corporation said on Wednesday that archaeological discoveries unearthed during the construction of the new Sung Wong Toi station on the Tuen Ma line will eventually be displayed at the station, but one district councillor said he suspects the...

The New People's Party (NPP) announced on Wednesday that it is offering prizes and vouchers worth HK$1 million in a lucky draw aimed at boosting Hong Kong's Covid-19 inoculation rate. However, the draw is strictly limited to fully vaccinated staff,...

An appeal for the government to do more to help the planned staging of the Gay Games in Hong Kong next year has provoked a strong reaction from some lawmakers, with one saying the pro-LGBTQ event would divide society and another saying it would “br...

The Society for Community Organisation on Wednesday said it hopes new research showing that relatively few new arrivals from the mainland rely on government benefits will change people's perception of migrants. Baptist University economists looked a...

Health authorities on Wednesday reported four new imported Covid-19 cases. One of the them – a 32-year-old man from Lebanon who was undergoing quarantine at a hotel in Sai Ying Pun – started displaying symptoms on Sunday. The other three import...

Secretary for Justice Teresa Cheng on Wednesday dismissed concerns that her proposal to allow legal officers in her department to attain the title of senior counsel will blur the distinction between solicitors and barristers – adding that some of h...

The International Monetary Fund said Hong Kong's financial system remains resilient to financial shocks despite the challenges that the city had faced over the past two years. In its latest financial system stability assessment published on Wednesd...

The Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, Christopher Hui, on Wednesday played down concerns that the government is weakening Hong Kong’s professional accounting body by reassigning many of its regulatory powers. The Hong Kong Institu...

Former pro-Beijing lawmaker Philip Wong has died at the age of 82. It is understood that he was suffering from brain cancer, and had been in a coma in a hospital in the United States over the past two months. Born in Fujian in 1938, Wong was a ve...

Billionaire businessman Ronnie Chan said on Wednesday that he hopes all schools in Hong Kong will primarily use Mandarin for teaching, adding that the SAR’s next generation should dream the "Chinese Dream" in the language. Speaking at a forum to d...

A pro-democracy district councillor on Wednesday demanded that authorities explain why they removed a banner he put up in his district last week that had asked people to “remember June 4” without notifying him first. Tsuen Wan district councillo...