Health authorities on Saturday released more than 100 aircrew from mandatory quarantine, after determining that they had had no contact with three former Cathay Pacific cargo pilots who returned from Germany infected with Covid-19. In a statement, ...

Police on Friday night raided two barbecue sites at Kau Wah Keng in Mei Foo together with officers from the Food and Environmental Department. 17 owners and staff of the barbecue sites were arrested on suspicion of fraud and possession of radio com...

Health officials reported three new imported Covid-19 cases on Saturday, all of which involved mutant virus strains. One of the patients is a 31-year-old domestic helper from the Philippines, whose infection triggered the overnight lockdown of a bu...

Chief Secretary John Lee on Saturday said the revamped electoral system has attracted many new faces and candidates from across the political spectrum to run for December’s Legislative Council elections, dismissing concerns that the future LegCo wi...

Sports commissioner Yeung Tak-keung said on Saturday people should not bring political messages into sports events, but added that the definition of political messages depends on the context. Yeung made the comment on an RTHK programme after organi...

Former Secretary for Financial Services, Chan Ka-keung, has expressed confidence that Hong Kong's status as an international financial centre will not be harmed by the city's tight Covid-19 policies. The international business community has been as...

The government has approved the use of the Sinovac vaccine for children as young as three years old, but agreed with its advisers that adolescents aged 12 to 17 will first be allowed to get the jab. A government statement said the health secretary c...

Authorities found no positive Covid-19 cases after testing about 130 residents of a building in Happy Valley. Way Man Court on 50-52 Village Road was on Friday evening locked down after a foreign domestic helper who was recently released from quaran...

Authorities placed a building in Happy Valley into lockdown on Friday evening after a foreign domestic helper who was recently released from quarantine tested preliminary positive for Covid-19. Health officials said the 31-year-old woman from the Ph...

Counter-terrorism authorities on Friday held a drill at the West Kowloon high speed rail terminus to simulate various terrorist attacks, including one that involved biochemical weapons. The drill, code-named "Tigerpace", involved about 300 officers ...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Friday said Hong Kong’s rule of law is well recognised, citing improvement in the city’s rule of law ratings over the past 25 years. Speaking at an event organised by the Law Society, Lam said the World Bank’s Wo...

Medical experts advising the government on its Covid vaccination programme have recommended allowing adolescents between 12 and 17 to get Sinovac shots before the jabs are given to younger children. The chairman of the Scientific Committee on Vaccin...

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...