Health authorities reported one new Covid-19 infection on Saturday, which was imported from the Philippines. The 27-year-old patient is a fully vaccinated foreign domestic helper, and she arrived at Hong Kong on November 28. She tested positive ...

Organisers of the Brands and Products Expo say they hope to hit HK$1 billion in sales as the event returns for the first time since 2019. The annual fair which showcases products from Hong Kong businesses, was scrapped last year due to the pandemic....

Chief Secretary John Lee said on Saturday that foreign agents in Hong Kong are attempting to deliberately obstruct next week's Legislative Council election, as he urged people to vote in the poll. Writing on his official blog, Lee said the most dir...

Police have arrested a 44-year-old woman on suspicion of dangerous driving causing grievous bodily harm, after her car rolled backwards down Peel Street in Central injuring eight people. Two of those hurt, both women, were rushed to Queen Mary Hosp...

The government has condemned remarks made by former lawmaker Nathan Law on Hong Kong at a meeting held in the United States. A spokesman said in a statement: "The conduct of the so-called Summit for Democracy by the US is a disguise for it to unilat...

Two women were rushed to Queen Mary Hospital in an unconscious state on Friday after a car rolled backwards, before stopping at the junction of Peel Street and Staunton Street in Central. The two were among eight pedestrians, four males and four fe...

An expert committee said on Friday it found no direct connection between the death of a woman and her getting jabbed against Covid-19. The Department of Health wrote in a report that the woman, 66, received her first BioNTech jab in July and died of...

The government said it will implement "the most stringent" quarantine and testing requirements for arrivals from the United States starting Monday, after a man travelling from the US to Hong Kong this week was found to be carrying the Omicron variant...

The Town Planning Board has endorsed plans to redevelop a housing estate in Shek Kip Mei built more than 50 years ago. But residents of Tai Hang Sai Estate said they're unhappy with plans to rehouse them during redevelopment. The estate is the only...

Hong Kong on Friday recorded its fifth case of the Omicron coronavirus infection. The patient is a 37-year-old man who arrived from the United States on Tuesday and tested positive at the airport. It was listed as one of the confirmed cases on Thur...

Eastern Court on Friday acquitted a male student of having unlawful sex with a female schoolmate in 2019, when he was 14 and she was 13. The defendant was found not guilty of one count of indecent conduct towards a girl under 16, two counts of unlaw...

People will get free MTR, bus and tram rides on the day of the Legco elections. In making the announcement on Friday, the government said it expects higher demand for public transport on election day, December 19, which is also a Sunday, and urges p...

Customs officers say they have seized cannabis and ecstasy worth HK$36 million, foiling attempts by drug traffickers to cash in on sales of drugs for the festive season. In operations conducted since early November, officers found 52,000 ecstasy pil...

Three candidates are vying for the two seats up for grabs in the Kowloon Central geographical constituency in the upcoming Legislative Council elections. The Legco hopefuls say housing issues and epidemic control are some of their top priorities sh...

The government says some 82,900 people registered for a health code within a few hours of the online application system opening on Friday morning. People will be allocated a green, amber or red code depending on their risk of contracting Covid-19, w...

An engineer said on Friday that the government needs to look for alternative water supplies as well as increasing awareness of water conservation in the local population amid warnings of drought in the river that supplies most of Hong Kong's fresh wa...

It's something that hasn't been heard in Tsim Sha Tsui for decades, so naturally people were all ears when the silence was over. Large crowds gathered near the Tsim Sha Tsui promenade on Thursday evening to hear the Clock Tower chime again after 71 ...

The ICAC on Thursday said three more people had been arrested on suspicion of inciting people not to vote, or to cast invalid ballots, in this month's Legco elections. The two men and one woman, aged between 22 and 57, are accused of sharing an onl...

A deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, Zhang Xiaoming, said on Thursday that Hong Kong's new Civil Service College should focus on nurturing patriotism among civil servants, as well as their willingness to serve the people, worl...

The Airport Authority (AA) on Thursday vowed to achieve net zero carbon emissions at the airport by 2050. At a press conference, airport officials said 29 major aviation-related companies have committed to its plans, and altogether with the authorit...