Health officials on Tuesday reported seven new Covid-19 infections – all of which were imported cases. Five of them, aged 6 to 34, arrived from Pakistan on a flight operated by Emirates, and among them four were fully vaccinated with the BioNTech...

The chief executive on Tuesday urged the private sector to follow the government's lead and require staff to get vaccinated against Covid-19. At her weekly press briefing, Carrie Lam said although 58 percent of the population has received at least o...

A senior mainland official overseeing Hong Kong affairs on Tuesday reassured the business sector that Beijing will not change the one country, two systems policy, and the legal rights of investors in the SAR will continue to be protected. Speaking a...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam says the value of political parties should be called into question if they have no plans to take part in elections. She was responding to an opinion piece by a DAB member who warned the Democratic Party against boycotting...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Tuesday said Hong Kong cannot allow thousands of foreign domestic workers to arrive in the city each week and their numbers will have to be controlled. The CE said officials are expected to give more details this week o...

A conservationist said on Tuesday that the government could have done a better job at revitalising the historic Central Market to preserve more of its unique structures and make the complex more down-to-earth. Katty Law, convenor of the Central and...

Federation of Trade Unions lawmaker Alice Mak on Tuesday said it was a "pity" that two lawmakers didn't attend Monday's seminar on the nation's five-year plan. At the session in Legco deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, Huang ...

Lawmakers have called on mainland and Hong Kong authorities to start discussions on reopening the border as a visiting delegation from Beijing said the SAR should not miss out on development opportunities in the country's five-year plan. The deputy ...

A doctor was on Monday found guilty of manslaughter over a botched liposuction operation in 2014 in which her patient died. After a 29-day trial, a seven-member jury at the High Court deliberated for eight hours before unanimously finding Vanessa Kw...

The High Court on Monday sent four members of the same family to prison after they obstructed a teenage relative from testifying in a rape trial. A girl in the family accused her father of raping her when she was 13 years old. But before she could t...

The Centre for Health Protection on Monday reported five newly confirmed coronavirus infections – all of which were imported cases. The patients, aged between nine and 38, had arrived from Nigeria, Pakistan, Indonesia, Turkey and the US. All of...

Civil Service Secretary Patrick Nip on Monday dismissed claims of a conflict of interest involving the appointment of a former senior aviation official as the new head of the Hong Kong International Aviation Academy. Simon Li retired as director-ge...

A senior mainland official overseeing Hong Kong affairs on Monday said China's dream of rejuvenating the nation also includes the dream of 7.5 million Hong Kong people, and the central government wants Hongkongers to live better lives. The deputy di...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Monday said Hong Kong's development must be tightly linked with that of the mainland, because this is the key to the city's continued success. Lam was speaking at a seminar where a central government delegation was exp...

A business lecturer from Chinese University said on Monday that he believes the government is financially capable of handing out more spending vouchers, but it should consider tweaking the arrangement to encourage people to spend some of their own mo...

A second person has died following a serious crash in Tai Po on Sunday when a taxi ploughed into a group of people on a pedestrian island. A 63-year-old woman, who had been critically injured in the smash, died in Tuen Mun Hospital on Monday morning...

Infectious disease expert Joseph Tsang said on Monday that the government has to make sure a centralised quarantine system is in place for thousands of domestic helpers who are expected to start flying in from the Philippines soon. His comments cam...

Health officials said on Monday that no new coronavirus cases were found after 570 residents in a Tsuen Wan building were tested overnight. The building was locked down for the testing, which finished at 6:45am on Monday. A 56-year-old man, who's...

The Department of Labour and Employment in the Philippines announced on Sunday that it had reached agreement with the Hong Kong authorities to allow fully vaccinated domestic helpers to fly to Hong Kong from August 30. The labour secretary, Silvest...

Officials have locked down a building in Tsuen Wan for coronavirus testing on Sunday evening after a resident tested positive for the L452R mutant strain of Covid-19 following a visit to Dubai. The 56-year-old man is being treated as an imported cas...