Hong Kong people will soon be able to get their hands on banknotes commemorating the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics. Bank of China (Hong Kong) announced on Wednesday it will offer two million HK$20 commemorative banknotes. Single notes will go fo...

The government has revived a plan to reform copyright law, five years after it was withdrawn amid filibustering in the legislature and opposition from some concern groups. Officials on Wednesday launched a three-month public consultation exercise on...

The Secretary for Transport and Housing, Frank Chan, says the government’s push for transitional housing is in line with the goal of “common prosperity” set out in the national plan, as the private sector and NGOs are engaged in helping the nee...

Health authorities said an eight-year-old girl was their only newly confirmed Covid patient on Wednesday. She had flown in from South Korea on November 13 and was a close contact of a previously confirmed case. Health officials said the girl's in...

An automated system will come into operation at a car park in Tsuen Wan on Thursday. Motorists will only need to park their vehicles on the ground floor of the car park at the junction of Hoi Shing Road and Hoi Kok Street, and the system will do its...

Conservationists are calling on the Hong Kong government to ban the sale of antique ivory and mammoth ivory, saying allowing these products to be sold will leave a loophole for the illegal trade of elephant tusks to continue. Jovy Chan, manager of ...

A member of the Commission on Children said on Wednesday that the government needs to set up a system to investigate all deaths of children after official figures showed a sharp increase in suicides. Priscilla Lui was commenting on RTHK's Hong Kong ...

The president of the Hong Kong Federation of Restaurants said on Wednesday that the sector largely supports mandatory use of the Covid location-recording app. Simon Wong made the comments on RTHK's Hong Kong Today programme, a day after the administ...

The Leisure and Cultural Services Department says 5,300 tickets for shows to be attended by a delegation of mainland athletes who competed in the Tokyo Olympics will be up for sale on Friday. The delegation of around 30 athletes will visit Hong Kon...

The government announced on Tuesday that the use of its LeaveHomeSafe app will be mandatory in all restaurants from December 9, as well as in gyms, hotels, cinemas and other regulated premises. That means people can no longer opt to jot down their ...

A government advisory panel said 59 children aged below 18 committed suicide between 2016 and 2018, more than double the previous three-year period, prompting calls for authorities to boost a safety network for youngsters. From 2013 to 2015, there w...

Health authorities on Tuesday reported six new imported Covid-19 cases. Four of the patients arrived from Pakistan, one from the United States and one from the United Kingdom. The infected traveller from the UK is a 27-year-old woman who lives in W...

Former student activist Tony Chung was on Tuesday jailed for three years and seven months for secession and money laundering. He had earlier pleaded guilty to the charges under the national security law. The District Court heard how Chung, 20, use...

The Education Bureau (EDB) announced on Tuesday that it is merging two secondary schools in light of what it described as a projected structural decline in the secondary school population. Kowloon Technical School will merge with Lung Cheung Govern...

A medical expert advising the government on the city’s coronavirus vaccination programme on Tuesday urged people who are eligible for a booster to get the jab, warning that Hong Kong might see another wave of infections after the resumption of quar...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Tuesday said polling stations will be set up at several border control points that are currently closed, to help Hong Kong residents living on the mainland cast their ballots in Legco elections next month. But Lam told ...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam says Hong Kong officials will meet mainland counterparts in Shenzhen on Thursday to discuss anti-epidemic work in the SAR in preparation for quarantine-free travel across the border. Speaking to reporters ahead of the Exe...

A representative of the catering sector says most restaurants agree that it should be made mandatory for customers to use the LeaveHomeSafe app if that means social-distancing rules could be relaxed further. Most restaurants are now allowed to let ...

Police are investigating a fatal traffic accident in Tseung Kwan O on Monday afternoon in which a 71-year-old woman died. At about 6 pm, a light goods vehicle driven by a 46-year-old man was travelling along Po Lam Road North towards Lohas Park when...

One of the government's advisers on Covid-19, microbiologist Yuen Kwok-yung, has warned against the use of valve masks, after a patient wearing one is suspected to have passed on the virus to another man living next door to him at a quarantine hotel....