Scaffolding at a construction site for the future Kai Tak Sports Park collapsed on Tuesday morning, but nobody was injured. Police said they received a report from workers on Muk Tai Street at around 9:30am. The scaffolding that came down was estim...

Health authorities on Tuesday reported five imported Covid-19 cases, including a woman who had been triple-jabbed against the virus. The 28-year-old, who flew in from the United States on Sunday, had received three doses of BioNTech vaccine in April...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Tuesday said some people who need to make business trips to the mainland would be given priority when the border reopens. Lam stressed their activities have to be in the interest of Hong Kong’s economic development. ...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam revealed on Tuesday that around 18,000 Hong Kong people living on the mainland have signed up to cast their votes in the upcoming Legco elections, adding that it’s unlikely that the final figure will exceed the maximum 11...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam has endorsed comments made by Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office chief Xia Baolong that Hong Kong wasted time in seeking Western-style democracy, and that this pursuit brought more harm than good to the SAR. Xia noted on ...

A vice-president of Beijing’s top think tank on Hong Kong, Lau Siu-kai, says the central government’s call for Hong Kong people to vote in the coming Legco election is part of China’s rebuff against the “hypocrisy of the US and Western democr...

Candidates in the Legislative Council elections are busy campaigning ahead of the polls on December 19. The SAR will have a new legislature consisting of 90 lawmakers – 20 of them elected by the people who live in the 10 geographical constituencie...

The government says homeless people who don’t have a smartphone will be exempted from the mandatory use of the LeaveHomeSafe app if they have a certificate issued by an NGO. Diane Wong, Deputy Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene, said the ...

China specialist Willy Lam on Tuesday described comments made by a senior Beijing official to call on Hong Kong people to cast their "sacred ballots” in the Legislative Council elections as "unprecedented". The director of Beijing's Hong Kong and ...

Outgoing University of Hong Kong (HKU) professor Keiji Fukuda, a former government adviser on the pandemic, on Monday said he’s leaving Hong Kong with "an immense sense of pride". The head of the university’s School of Public Health made the com...

More children are to be exempt from using LeaveHomeSafe when the roll-out of the government Covid app is expanded on December 9 to include all restaurants, with under 16s allowed in without scanning. When use of the app was extended to all governmen...

New World Development on Monday said it was planning to sell 300 flats at half of their market price to eligible first-time homebuyers in view of the city’s housing problem. The developer said downpayment for the units on offer in New Territories ...

The director of Beijing's Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, Xia Baolong, said on Monday that Hong Kong had wasted time in seeking "Western-style democracy" but was left only with chaos and divisions. In a speech via video link ahead of this month'...

A man who helped run a Telegram group was on Monday sentenced to four years and 10 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to nine incitement charges linked to the social unrest in 2019. Siu Cheung-lung was accused of inciting others to commit riot...

Health authorities on Monday reported five imported Covid-19 cases. The five patients, aged between 29 and 48, arrived from Pakistan, Turkey, Finland, Russia and South Korea. Hong Kong has recorded 12,467 coronavirus cases so far.

Police have launched an animal cruelty investigation after around 30 dead pigeons were found in Tai Po. Authorities received reports on Sunday night and Monday morning about the dead birds near Heng Yiu House at Fu Heng Estate. They also found a ...

A worker died after he was hit by a falling concrete slab while carrying out work at the State Theatre Building in North Point on Monday morning. The 34-year-old was rushed to Ruttonjee Hospital where he was declared dead. Police said the debris ...

The first Legislative Council elections following Beijing’s revamp of Hong Kong’s electoral system take place on December 19. Following the polls, the SAR will have a new legislature consisting of 90 lawmakers – 20 of them elected by the peopl...

Tuen Mun Hospital announced on Sunday that it had apologised to the family of a man who died after medics failed to diagnose that he'd had a heart attack, adding that it has asked the coroner to investigate. The 57-year-old man was rushed to the ac...

The council chairman of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Lam Tai-fai, on Sunday invited elite athletes from the mainland to study at the institution for free. The invitation came as Olympic athletes from the national team wrapped up their thre...