A government adviser on Sunday urged elderly Hongkongers to get vaccinated against coronavirus, saying the jabs are safe even for those struggling with diabetes or high blood pressure. Professor Ivan Hung, the co-convenor of an expert committee loo...

Hong Kong's Central Market will reopen to the public on Monday, almost two decades after it was closed down. Following a HK$500 million makeover, the Grade III historic building boasts dozens of retail and food outlets, with seats for visitors to re...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan said on Sunday that Hong Kong's economy is showing signs of improvement, with unemployment going down and the government's HK$5,000 voucher scheme expected to boost spending. Writing on his blog, Chan said the jobless r...

One person was killed and nine others injured on Sunday morning when a taxi rammed into a group of people on a pedestrian island on Kwong Fuk Road in Tai Po. A 59-year-old man was certified dead at the scene. A four-year-old and a pregnant woman we...

Members of the public have urged Chief Executive Carrie Lam to provide another round of consumption vouchers next year. The call was made as Lam joined a policy address consultation programme on RTHK on Sunday, ahead of the release of her next blue...

The Law Society said on Saturday it had made a report to the police after one of its council members withdrew his candidacy for re-election, citing intimidation. Jonathan Ross announced that he was pulling out of the forthcoming election for the so...

Executive councillor Lam Ching-choi on Saturday urged public hospitals to raise the retirement age for medical workers, amid concerns about a brain drain. Speaking at a forum to discuss plans to amend the law to make it easier for Hongkongers who t...

A migrant workers' group on Saturday called on the government to be mindful of the potential for foreign domestic helpers to exploited and discriminated against in a new plan to open the border to new helpers who have been fully inoculated in their h...

The Labour Department said on Saturday it was nearing agreement with authorities in the Philippines and Indonesia on arrangements for newly-hired foreign domestic helpers to come to Hong Kong. Officials say an announcement could come as soon as next...

The Airport Authority on Friday said it was making Covid-19 vaccinations compulsory for staff who handle high-risk cargo or come into unavoidable close contact with transit and incoming passengers and crew. It added that negative test results or med...

A 21-year-old man, who was formerly employed as a part-time journalist at RTHK, has been charged with possessing imitation firearms and a walkie-talkie without a licence. The man, who was working for RTHK at the time, was arrested at the Ocean Park ...

Police say they have made 19 arrests after people overseas were scammed out of at least HK$11 million after being promised they could make a fortune by investing in cryptocurrency. The force said fraudsters targeted 170 people in various places, in...

The Law Society said it will review current laws regulating legal workers, after a law clerk with a criminal record was found to have provided legal advice to a man who was later wrongly jailed for drug-trafficking. Last month, the Court of Appeal ...

A mainland scholar on Friday played down Beijing’s decision to postpone a vote on inserting the anti-sanctions law into Hong Kong’s Basic Law, saying it’s not unusual given the profound impact it could have on the SAR’s markets. Tien Feilon...

Health officials on Friday reported two new imported Covid-19 cases, both found with the L452R mutant strain. One of them, a 53-year-old man who flew in from Germany, had received two doses of the BioNTech jab in Hong Kong earlier this year. Anot...

The government has come under heavy criticism from lawmakers over the exemption of Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman and her film crew from quarantine. "Is that going to be a precedent? Does it mean that when people come to make films they will be ex...

Hong Kong's member of the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) Tam Yiu-chung on Friday said a vote on adding the mainland's anti-foreign sanctions law to the SAR's Basic Law had been postponed. The NPCSC was originally expected to ...

Police were on Friday investigating the death of one of their own officers who was believed to have shot himself in the head at the force's New Territories North headquarters in Tai Po. A shot was heard in the building at about 7 o'clock on Friday ...

The head of the Hong Kong-Singapore Business Association, Philip Chan, said on Friday that it was "understandable" for the two governments to scrap plans for a travel bubble, given their different strategies in handling the Covid-19 pandemic. Hong K...

An international business group has warned that Hong Kong's move to enhance quarantine as it attempts to keep out new strains of Covid-19 is leading some to question whether they can continue operating from the SAR at a time when much of the world is...