Labour and Welfare Secretary Law Chi-kwong on Friday rejected suggestions that the administration is being too generous to employers in its latest proposal to abolish the MPF offsetting mechanism. Under the plan, bosses will no longer be able to us...

Education Secretary Kevin Yeung said on Friday that all teachers, including those working at schools not funded by the government, might have to take a test on the Basic Law in the future. For now, the requirement will only apply to those taking up...

The government on Friday disqualified 16 district councillors from the eastern New Territories, saying the oaths of allegiance they took this week were invalid. Sha Tin District Council lost nine members, including chairman Raymond Li – who took ...

The Secretary for Transport and Housing, Frank Chan, said talks were already underway with mainland authorities over plans to build a new cross-border rail link connecting Hong Kong and Qianhai. The Hong Kong-Shenzhen Western Railway will link Hung ...

A worker has died after being caught up in a scaffolding collapse in Happy Valley on Friday morning. The woman had been taken to hospital unconscious after being freed from the debris. Dramatic footage posted online showed a huge wall of scaffoldi...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Friday that she’s confident mainland authorities will offer a new visa allowing non-Chinese residents of Hong Kong to visit other parts of the Greater Bay Area more easily. Lam said she had put forward a proposa...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Friday that she thinks the One Country, Two Systems principle will last beyond 2047. Lam said this is because Beijing no longer has to worry about Hong Kong being the weakest link in terms of national security, aft...

The head of Pink Alliance, Jerome Yau, said on Friday that the government did the right thing in admitting that staff made a mistake when they refused to let a gay man deal with arrangements after his husband's death, and urged officials to apply the...

The head of an environmental group says Hong Kong should have a carbon trading scheme if it wants to achieve its goal of carbon neutrality by 2050. William Yu, CEO of the World Green Organisation, said the initiatives pledged by Chief Executive Car...

Authorities on Friday lifted the lockdown at Golden Glory Court in Sha Tin. As at 1am today, around 400 residents had been tested and no confirmed cases were found. They had sealed off the residential building at the Golden Lion Garden development a...

The Observatory says it expects the Strong Wind Signal No 3 to remain in force on Friday, though the chance of a higher signal remains low – unless Tropical Cyclone Lionrock strengthens significantly or tracks closer to Hong Kong. The storm is c...

The Labour Department on Friday said it was highly concerned about a fatal work accident on Thursday afternoon at a shopping complex in Wong Tai Sin. A man was crushed to death when an elevating working platform he was pushing tipped over. The de...

The Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development, Edward Yau, said there’s an urgent need to amend “outdated” copyright laws to catch up with the technology. The government's last attempt to update copyright laws failed to get through Legc...

Authorities on Thursday imposed an overnight lockdown on Golden Glory Court at Golden Lion Garden, Sha Tin, after a resident there tested preliminary positive for Covid-19. The Centre for Health Protection said the case involved a 48-year-old man w...

A gay man has agreed to drop his legal challenge over the government's refusal to let him identify his late husband after authorities admitted that they had made a mistake. In December 2020, a government pathologist refused to allow Henry Li to act ...

Innovation and Technology minister Alfred Sit on Thursday said it will take up to 15 years to complete a reclamation project off Ma Liu Shui announced in the chief executive's policy address, even though it has not yet been decided what exactly the d...

Security Secretary Chris Tang says officials aim to start consultation and legislative work on new national security legislation, under Article 23 of the Basic Law, in the next Legco term. The security chief made the remarks in a blog post supporti...

The student union of the Chinese University (CUSU) announced its disbandment on Thursday. In February, the university cut ties with the student group, asking it to register as an independent society or company to assume its own legal responsibility....

Health authorities on Thursday recorded eight new imported Covid cases, involving people who flew in from Pakistan, Nepal and the Philippines. Officials said Nepal Airlines flights from Kathmandu were temporarily banned from Thursday, after one of i...

Customs officers said on Thursday that an anti-smuggling operation in Lung Kwu Tan last month netted the most valuable haul of goods ever found in Hong Kong, with the find including luxury foodstuffs, handbags and endangered plants Officials said c...