Security Secretary Chris Tang was discharged from hospital on Saturday, following minor surgery on his elbow. Tang said his elbow had become inflamed after he injured it last week. "The doctor suggested minor surgery to deal with the infection. I ...

An advisor to the government on the pandemic, David Hui, said on Saturday that Hong Kong was making progress meeting mainland requirements for the border to reopen. The SAR government has recently changed a number of infection-control measures, lik...

Alibaba has no plans to sell Hong Kong's South China Morning Post (SCMP), the e-commerce giant's co-founder Joe Tsai was quoted as saying in a letter to SCMP staff seen by Reuters, following a Bloomberg News report that a Chinese government-owned fir...

The MTR on Saturday said services were gradually returning to normal, after an incident involving a person on the track near Mong Kok East had earlier disrupted services. Services between Hung Hom and Kowloon Tong were suspended just before 8.30 am...

Six catering associations said on Friday authorities should ease social distancing rules at eateries if diners must use the LeaveHomeSafe app, saying revenue would drop at least 10 to 20 percent if the measure comes into effect. Lawmaker Michael Tie...

The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) said on Friday that for the first time it has found a patient carrying a descendent of the Delta strain of Covid-19, which could be even more transmissible. The AY.4.2 variant, dubbed "Delta plus", was found in...

The Foreign Ministry's office in Hong Kong said on Friday that it strongly disapproves of a survey of members of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club (FCC) on the state of press freedom in the SAR, demanding the club stop "vilifying Hong Kong's rule of...

Customs officers said on Friday that they arrested six people over the past two weeks in connection with a HK$300 million cocaine seizure. On October 19, some 260 kilogrammes of the drug was discovered inside a container of frozen food imported from...

A conservationist warned on Friday that a plan to castrate a Lantau buffalo dubbed Big Eye Boy could spark a turf war, with younger males battling each other to take his place as king of the area. The Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Departme...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Friday said she is hopeful of a "larger scale" reopening of the border in February next year. She told a forum this would allow the SAR government to organise some big events, including a seminar to mark the third anni...

Hong Kong's top court has upheld the exclusive right of male indigenous villagers to build their own homes under the Small House Policy, saying the policy is constitutional in its entirety. The policy, which dates back to 1972, allows for three-stor...

Online bookings for a third dose of Covid vaccine opened for those over 60 and other priority groups on Friday. Eligible people can visit the government website and make a reservation, with the first booster shots to be administered on November 11. ...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam says the government has no plans to add a tracking function to the LeaveHomeSafe Covid-19 app, but people would need to upload their check-in records if they want to avoid quarantine when they travel to the mainland in futu...

Several children were taken to hospital on Thursday after two were knocked down by buffaloes and others fell as they dodged the animals. Police said they received a report in the morning about two buffaloes charging through Pui O on Lantau. One of ...

A survey suggests almost half of Hong Kong people who suffer a heart attack or stroke aren't bothering to maintain a healthy lifestyle to reduce the chance of it happening to them again. The Hong Kong College of Cardiology (HKCC) said that along wit...

Health authorities on Thursday banned Nepal Airlines flights to Hong Kong from Kathmandu for two weeks after two recent passengers were found to be infected with Covid-19. The Department of Health also said that one passenger failed to comply with t...

The government has been urged to designate Big Wave Bay as a surfing beach, after an apparent crackdown recently on the popular water sport at the gazetted beach. A surf school says the tougher line follows a number of incidents involving surfers la...

The High Court on Thursday reduced the sentences of a beauty clinic founder and a technician who are in prison for manslaughter over a fatal surgery blunder in 2012. DR Group founder Stephen Chow and his former worker Billy Chan were jailed in 2017 ...

Hong Kong's top court ruled on Thursday that people cannot be convicted of taking part in an unlawful assembly or rioting if they are physically absent from the scene. A five-judge panel led by Chief Justice Andrew Cheung made the landmark decisio...

University of Hong Kong microbiologist Ho Pak-leung said on Thursday that the government should actively contact people eligible for a third dose of the Covid-19 vaccines to make sure they know booster shots are now available. Speaking on an RTHK p...