Around 40 parents have called on the government to investigate Mount Kelly School Hong Kong, saying their attempts to get back tens of millions of dollars they paid for debentures have hit a brick wall. The private school, which opened in 2017, susp...

Health authorities reported one new imported Covid-19 infection on Friday. The 34-year-old woman from the Philippines tested positive while at Penny's Bay Quarantine Centre. There were fewer than 10 preliminary positive cases, officials said.

Former lawmaker Chim Pui-chung and his son have been charged by the ICAC with conspiracy to defraud the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and a listed company over an alleged “backdoor listing” agreement and money laundering. The ICAC said on Friday tha...

All but one person who signed up to run in next month's Legco polls have been cleared to stand as candidates, with a vetting body deeming them to be patriotic. The Candidate Eligibility Review Committee screened 154 would-be Legco candidates. It di...

The government has drastically revised a plan to build flats on part of the Hong Kong Golf Club, in Fanling, to more than double the number of units and use all of them for public housing. In the original proposal announced in 2019, the government ...

Respiratory medicine expert Leung Chi-chiu on Friday called on the government to let everyone who has had BioNTech Covid jabs receive a booster. On an RTHK programme, Leung said Hong Kong is capable of expanding its booster programme even further, t...

Police on Friday confirmed the death of a passenger and the arrest of the driver of a KMB double-decker bus that overturned late on Thursday. Eleven people were confirmed to be injured in the accident, of whom two were said to be in serious conditio...

Bosses and delivery workers at the food delivery platform Foodpanda say they've agreed a deal on fees after a strike disrupted deliveries in some parts of Hong Kong at the weekend. Managers and couriers held seven hours of talks on Thursday afternoo...

One worker has died in an industrial accident at the Siu Ho Wan Sewage Treatment Works on Lantau. Another worker was in critical condition while two others were in serious condition. Four workers were found trapped inside an eight-metre-deep manhol...

A child protection organisation said on Thursday that it had seen a 40 percent increase in reports of suspected abuse, saying more cases were identified because face-to-face classes resumed in schools. Against Child Abuse said it received 1,264 enqu...

Cathay Pacific said on Thursday that three cargo pilots who sparked a mass quarantine exercise after they returned from Germany infected with Covid-19 no longer work for the company. The airline said an internal investigation had found "a serious br...

Hong Kong is extending its Covid booster programme to cover anyone who has received the Sinovac jab. Bookings for such people will open on November 23, although there must be a gap of at least six months between a person's second and third dose of v...

A taxi driver was killed after his vehicle collided with a seven-seater in Kam Tin on Thursday morning. The fronts of the two vehicles were severely damaged in the smash on Kam Tin Road at around 6am. Authorities said the 57-year-old taxi driver wa...

Development Secretary Michael Wong said on Thursday that there may be three large hospitals in the future Northern Metropolis, each of them potentially having more than 2,000 beds. Chief Executive Carrie Lam has proposed building a 300-square-kilom...

An animal welfare advocate has criticised the authorities for using bread to lure wild boars in an operation to capture and kill them, but the government said the tactic was adopted to make sure everyone was safe. Officers from the Agriculture, Fis...

The Hong Kong government has rejected a US report which said the National Security Law (NSL) had eroded the SAR's judicial independence and curtailed freedoms. The report by the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission also criti...

Police on Thursday said four more people had been charged in connection with the kidnapping of a man allegedly caught up in a cryptocurrency transaction scam. Officers said the four men, aged between 25 and 40, will appear at Kowloon City court cha...

The Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) on Wednesday said vets had put down seven wild pigs in Aberdeen, after first tranquilising them with dart guns. The operation took place between 8 pm and 10 pm on Shum Wan Road, where the ...

For the first time, anti-graft officers will be deployed at polling stations in Legislative Council elections. The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) said on Wednesday that it will deploy around 800 staff at polling stations on electio...

Health authorities on Wednesday reported three new Covid-19 infections involving patients flying in from Pakistan and South Korea. The three patients are fully vaccinated and were found to be carrying the L452R mutant strain. A man from Pakistan t...