The first Chinese sprinter who reached an Olympic 100-metre final, Su Bingtian, said on Friday he's looking forward to a meaningful get-together with Hong Kong people and athletes in the coming days. He's among 29 Olympic athletes from the national...

Around 20 sailors are being held in quarantine on board their vessel in Hong Kong after one of their colleagues was diagnosed with Covid-19. The Glory Sky, a cargo ship, arrived in the territory from Japan on Wednesday. Officials say the 51-year-o...

The official in charge of Hong Kong's vaccination programme, Patrick Nip, said on Friday the SAR doesn't have to reach a target inoculation rate to open up quarantine-free travel with the mainland. But he said higher vaccination rates here would re...

MTR officials say they have removed a component from several advertising panels after a carriage door was ripped off a train in Causeway Bay on Thursday evening. Officials said on Friday that they believe a loose component caused the incident which...

Transport expert Hung Wing-tat says it's totally unacceptable to have loose parts from an advertising panel affect the safety of a train, and suggested that a switch to digital advertising could avoid problems in future. Hung was commenting on RTHK'...

An academic has warned that the SAR's newly-launched health code system will not work effectively if the government fails to cultivate public trust. Kris Hartley, an assistant professor of public management and administration at the Education Univer...

Hong Kong on Thursday announced stricter requirements for transit passengers coming from Taiwan and overseas after a traveller who spent days stuck at the airport was found to be carrying the Omicron Covid variant. The government said in a statement...

No confirmed Covid cases were found after health authorities on Thursday put a residential block in Lam Tin under overnight lockdown because a woman who lives there had tested preliminary positive for a mutant strain of Covid-19. The woman, 28, had...

The partial suspension of the MTR's Island Line during rush hour after a carriage door came off turned out to be a nightmare for commuters on a chilly Thursday evening. In Admiralty, long queues formed at taxi stands, bus stops and the tram stop as ...

MTR services between Wan Chai and Quarry Bay stations were suspended for about three hours on Thursday evening after a train carriage door came off. The railway operator said the incident, which happened at around 6pm, involved a train at Causeway B...

The District Court on Thursday sentenced a man who posted a message on Facebook encouraging others to attack police officers to seven months in jail. Tony Choi was earlier found guilty of incitement to cause grievous bodily harm. The court heard he...

The government has officially launched Hong Kong's health code system, but has stressed that there is no plan to use it within the SAR. People hoping to travel quarantine-free to the mainland once the border reopens will be able to sign up for a co...

Hong Kong reported six new imported Covid-19 cases on Thursday. The Centre for Health Protection said the patients, aged 22 to 60, recently arrived from the UK, South Africa, Qatar, the US, Pakistan and Russia. One of them, a 38-year-old man, liv...

Researchers from two local universities say a study they have carried out suggests that supplementing a type of bacteria in the gut can help improve a person's antibody response to Covid vaccinations. The research team from the medical faculties of...

University of Hong Kong microbiologist Ho Pak-leung on Thursday called on the Airport Authority to tighten anti-epidemic rules on transit passengers, after a man who was stranded at the airport for days was found with the Omicron variant of Covid-19....

An economist behind an annual cost-of-living survey has said that the Hong Kong dollar's peg to the US currency, as well as cheaper prices for clothing and services such as haircuts, helped push the SAR off the top of an annual list of the most expen...

A driver has been arrested after a fatal crash involving a motorcycle at Tai Tam Road on Wednesday night. Police say the motorbike was heading towards Chai Wan at about 8.15pm when it was in a head-on crash with a private car near the Shek O roundab...

Hong Kong on Wednesday reported its fourth case of the new Omicron Covid variant, involving a traveller who spent days stuck at the airport here. Health officials said the man, 38, arrived in Hong Kong from Qatar on flight QR818 on November 24 for ...

Scientists at the University of Hong Kong said on Wednesday they will collaborate with mainland drug makers to develop a vaccine against the Omicron variant, adding that it would take a few months to make an inactivated vaccine using the Covid-19 vir...

A 19-year-old student acquitted of possessing a laser pointer for an illegal purpose is filing a lawsuit against the secretary for justice to claim damages. West Kowloon Court found Parco Pang not guilty of the charge in June, after ruling that the ...