Health officials reported no new Covid-19 cases on Monday, the first time in almost a month. All of the 45 infections reported in the past fortnight were imported. The city has recorded 12,368 coronavirus infections so far.

The chairman of the Hong Kong Senior Government Officers Association, Lee Fong-chung, said on Monday that he isn't sure whether more regular Covid tests for unvaccinated civil servants will help boost the city's take-up of jabs. Civil service chief ...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam says Hong Kong will have to reopen its border with the mainland in stages, with cities in Guangdong expected to be the first to resume quarantine-free travel with the SAR. In an interview with Hong Kong Economic Times publ...

Police said on Monday that they had seized more than 600 kilogrammes of cocaine which had been hidden inside a shipment of frozen orange juice from Brazil. Officers said a 28-year-old man was arrested on Saturday following a raid on an industrial bu...

Infectious diseases expert Joseph Tsang said on Monday that the government should consider further narrowing quarantine exemption to prevent a new and potentially more transmissible Covid variant from entering the community. Tsang made the comment ...

Oxfam Hong Kong has criticised the SAR's climate action plan, saying the blueprint will do little to help the poor adapt to climate change. The government announced details of its 2050 climate plan last month, identifying four key decarbonisation st...

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...