The Secretary for Civil Service, Patrick Nip, said on Sunday that unvaccinated government staff may need to get tested for Covid-19 every week, instead of once every two weeks. Currently, government employees who have not received at least one Covi...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan said on Sunday that this year’s budget deficit will likely be much smaller than the original estimate he made at the start of the year, due to recovery in the economy, better-than-expected land sales and other sources ...

Police have seized ten high-power speedboats and 57 outboard engines in a warehouse in Tuen Mun in an anti-smuggling operation. Officers believe the vessels and the engines are worth more than HK$25 million in total. At a press briefing on Sunday...

Health authorities said on Sunday that the latest imported Covid-19 case is a man who had already been triple-jabbed. The patient is a 56-year-old man who arrived from the United Kingdom on Monday. He received a booster BioNTech jab last month, a...

The Hong Kong Tourism Board says it will hold its first-ever New Year countdown concert and will distribute 3,000 tickets by lucky draw. The concert will be held at the Art Park in the West Kowloon Cultural District. It will also be live-streamed. ...

Justice Secretary Teresa Cheng said on Sunday that even though the top court had ruled that one has to be present at a violent scene to be convicted of rioting or taking part in an unlawful assembly, those who facilitate such crimes could still be co...

Health Secretary Sophia Chan said on Sunday that mainland medical experts might visit Hong Kong to inspect anti-epidemic measures here, as expectations mount of the border reopening early next year. Speaking on a radio programme, Chan said health o...

Stand News’ editor-in-chief, Chung Pui-kuen, said on Sunday that he had stepped down from the post, citing “family reasons”. Writing on his social media account, Chung said deputy chief Patrick Lam had taken over from November 1. Chung than...

Customs have arrested three people after finding suspected drugs, with a street value of HK$8.2 million, in toy cars, salt packets, and ink rollers at Hong Kong International Airport. About a kilo of suspected ketamine was discovered in two salt pac...

Police on Saturday arrested a man and a woman, aged 38 and 33, on suspicion of attempted murder, in a suspected murder suicide case involving charcoal burning. The incident allegedly took place on Friday at a flat on Lai Ying Street in Cheung Sha W...

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...