A government advisor on Covid-19 vaccination on Saturday said more venues, such as wet markets, should be made off-limits to those who hadn't had a jab, should the administration's vaccine passport policy fail to encourage more people to get inoculat...

Top microbiologist Yuen Kwok-yung says progress here in developing a nasal spray vaccine against Covid-19 has been extremely slow due to insufficient investment. Speaking on RTHK's Chinese-language radio programme "Hong Kong Letter on Saturday", th...

Health officials on Saturday said they had found no new Covid-19 cases following an overnight lockdown at a residential building in Tin Shui Wai. Authorities sealed off Block 2 of Grandeur Terrace, 88 Tin Shui Wai Road, on Friday evening as a preli...

Large crowds gathered in different areas across Hong Kong on Friday night to usher in the New Year. Thousands attended a countdown concert in West Kowloon, while there were also celebrations on both sides of the harbour. Some of the revellers told...

Police said they have arrested a 70-year-old minibus driver for dangerous driving causing death after an accident in Yau Ma Tei on New Year's Eve. Police told a briefing early on New Year's Day that they had been notified at about 6pm that a public...

The government has on Friday imposed an overnight lockdown of a residential block in Tin Shui Wai, citing a preliminary positive case detected there. All residents of Block 2 of Grandeur Terrace on Tin Shui Road are required to undergo testing, and...

Police have arrested a 25-year-old man for dangerous driving causing death after a fatal traffic accident in Wong Tai Sin on New Year's Eve in which a 23-year-old woman and a 63-year-old man died. They said that shortly after 6pm on Friday, a privat...

Health authorities have warned that Hong Kong is on the verge of a fifth wave of Covid-19 outbreaks, after confirming the first community transmission of the virus in the territory for months. Officials were scrambling on Friday to track down all t...

Health Secretary Sophia Chan said on Friday that the "vaccine bubble" policy will be expanded by Lunar New Year, with more places to be made off-limits for those who haven't had a jab. Currently, the at least one-jab requirement applies to visitors ...

Health Secretary Sophia Chan said on Friday that Chief Executive Carrie Lam had summoned the chairman and CEO of Cathay Pacific to express the government's "strong dissatisfaction" with breaches of the company's isolation rules by staff infected with...

The District Court on Friday found five people guilty of rioting and resisting a police officer in Wong Tai Sin on National Day in 2019. Kwok Siu-kit, Cheung Kai-cheong, Ho Man-him, Wan Tsz-lam and Mak Ho-wai, who are aged between 19 and 30, were c...

Dozens of people queued up to get tested for coronavirus at the Festival Walk shopping mall on Friday morning, after the authorities issued a compulsory testing order in connection with an Omicron case. Staff and customers who were in the Kowloon To...

People living at a public housing estate in Shek Kip Mei on Friday said they were not afraid after a 76-year-old resident there tested preliminary positive for Covid-19. Health authorities had put Wing Chak House in Chak On Estate into lockdown ove...

Medical experts say Hong Kong has likely been hit by an Omicron outbreak, with one warning the territory must now brace itself for a "super-spreading" event. A construction worker has tested preliminary positive for coronavirus, days after he ate at...

The authorities on Friday announced that no confirmed cases of Covid-19 were found during overnight lockdowns in Shek Kip Mei and Kennedy Town. The lockdowns took place as officials investigate two suspected cases of local transmission of the Omicro...

Health authorities on Thursday reported two suspected cases of local transmission of the Omicron coronavirus variant linked to a Cathay Pacific aircrew member who recently returned from the United States. Officials are investigating whether the var...

The government has put two residential blocks in Shek Kip Mei and Kennedy Town under overnight lockdown on Thursday, after two residents tested preliminary positive for mutant strains of Covid-19. In a statement, a spokesman said residents of Wing ...

Two former Stand News editors were denied bail by West Kowloon Court on Thursday, one day after they were arrested by national security police. Former editor-in-chief Chung Pui-kuen, 52, former acting editor-in-chief Patrick Lam, 34, and the parent ...

The government has set a minimum flat size requirement of 280 square feet for a residential plot that it is tendering out in the next quarter. The site on Castle Peak Road in Tuen Mun is expected to provide 2,020 flats. Development Secretary Micha...

Health officials on Thursday announced that Hong Kong had 12 new Covid-19 patients, including three aircrew members and three foreign domestic helpers. All 12 cases were imported, with the other patients recently flying in from Pakistan, Brazil, Tu...