Labour and Welfare Secretary Law Chi-kwong on Thursday said it would be absurd to force retirees to transfer their savings under the mandatory provident fund into an annuity plan, stressing that people will be given a choice. The official had first ...

Hong Kong health authorities reported one imported Covid infection on Thursday, involving a 30-year-old woman who had already completed 21 days of quarantine. The woman, who works as a domestic helper, flew in from Indonesia on September 17 aboard f...

Development Secretary Michael Wong on Thursday said it was unrealistic to presume the city’s green belts and country parks, which make up more than half of the land in Hong Kong, will remain untouched as authorities seek to boost land supply. Plan...

The Observatory on Thursday cancelled all typhoon signals as tropical cyclone Kompasu passed over Hainan island and headed towards the coast of Vietnam. All signals came down at 6.20 am. The number 1 signal had replaced the number 3 two hours earli...

The Observatory issued the Standby Signal Number 1 at 4.40am on Thursday to replace the Strong Wing Signal Number 3. The weather bureau dropped signal eight at 4.40pm yesterday after Kompasu made landfall over Hainan. The higher signal had been u...

Police on Thursday said they arrested a man over the death of a taxi driver in Sai Ying Pun, a day after they initiated a manhunt for the killer. Hong Kong Island Regional Crime Unit Chief Inspector, Tse Tsz-kwan, said officers went to Lamma Island ...

The pastor helping murder suspect Chan Tong-kai said on Wednesday that he had left a police safe house since June. Responding to media enquiries, Reverend Peter Koon didn’t say where Chan lives now, but described it as a place where people won't e...

While Typhoon Kompasu disrupted life in Hong Kong on Wednesday, some people still went about their business as usual. The Strong Wind Signal No. 3 took effect at 4:40pm, replacing the No. 8 signal that had been in force for almost 24 hours as the st...

The liquidator of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, Richard Tsoi, said he has told the University of Hong Kong to contact the creator of "Pillar of Shame" over its plan to remove the statute from the campus...

The government says newly recruited civil servants will in future have to take a test on the national security law. In papers submitted to the legislature, the Civil Service Bureau says the tests, in addition to those already given on the Basic Law,...

The Centre for Health Protection on Wednesday reported three imported Covid-19 infections. The two women and a man, aged between 28 and 34, arrived from Indonesia, the Philippines and Pakistan. All patients were vaccinated against the coronavirus ...

The observatory says it will consider lowering the number eight typhoon signal between 4pm and 7pm on Wednesday, as Kompasu moves away from Hong Kong. At 2pm, the typhoon was centred about 490 kilometres southwest of Hong Kong and was forecast to m...

The police say a new weapon they are introducing in the wake of the social unrest of 2019 will help officers fire pepper spray at suspects more accurately. The pistol-like launcher can fire four rounds of pepper solution from up to seven metres away...

A weather expert said on Wednesday it's relatively easy to predict the track of Typhoon Kompasu compared with the storm that hit Hong Kong last week. Leung Wing-mo, spokesman of Hong Kong Meteorological Society, said that's because Kompasu's surroun...

A concern group says the Chief Executive Carrie Lam comment about subsiding people in the public housing queue is something it has been proposing for some time, even though she later backtracked on what she had said. Lam said making the Housing Auth...

The Observatory says the typhoon signal number 8 will be in force up to 4 pm. But it said as tropical cyclone Kompasu departs, local winds are expected to weaken this afternoon. It also warned that heavy rain due to the cyclone may lead to flooding ...

Typhoon Kompasu brought Hong Kong to a halt on Wednesday, as classes and government services were suspended and public transport was seriously disrupted. The Education Bureau said classes of all day schools would be suspended. The stock market will...

The Observatory said Severe Tropical Storm Kompasu has intensified into a typhoon, and the number eight storm signal will remain in force before noon on Wednesday. Officials issued the signal at 5:20pm on Tuesday, and the SAR has been lashed by stro...

Hong Kong has been feeling the brunt of Severe Tropical Storm Kompasu, as it moved nearer to the SAR overnight, causing minor flooding in some areas In Heng Fa Chuen, seawater overflowed onto the waterfront promenade from midnight - flooding the co...

The police are investigating two fatal traffic accidents which occurred on Tuesday - as Severe Tropical Storm Kompasu approached Hong Kong. One of the accidents happened at around 6pm, after the signal eight was issued. A 31-year-old motorcyclist h...