A coronavirus cluster linked to the infected mother of a flight attendant further expanded on Thursday, with at least two retirees and a foreign domestic helper testing preliminary positive for the virus. One of them is a 73-year-old woman who danc...

The Housing Authority says it has recorded a surplus of HK$10 billion this year and it expects more of the same over the next few years, with the surplus predicted to hit HK$16 billion in 2025-2026. Taking into account its budget and forecasts publi...

The chairman of the Federation of Beauty Industry, Nelson Ip, said there was anger and shock in his trade over a government decision to shut down beauty parlours for two weeks. Speaking on an RTHK programme on Thursday, Ip questioned why beauty parl...

Health Secretary Sophia Chan on Thursday said Hong Kong is still at risk of seeing more local coronavirus cases even though officials have identified the transmission chains of recent infections in the community. Contact tracing has now found that ...

Three overnight lockdown and testing operations concluded on Thursday morning with no one testing positive. Officials moved in on Wednesday evening at Serene Court in Tin Hau Temple Road, Causeway Bay and Rock View Gardens on Tat Chee Avenue in Kowl...

A restaurant industry leader warned on Wednesday that the sector faces missing out in $8 billion of business if the government extends restrictions, including a ban on evening dine-in services, through the crucial Lunar New Year period. Simon Wong, ...

The director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, Xia Baolong, has told lawmakers not to simply rubber-stamp government policies during a meeting in Shenzhen. The DAB's Starry Lee, who was among about a dozen legislators who met with Xia, quot...

Health authorities said a surveyor who tested positive for the Omicron variant had eaten at a cha chaan teng in Tin Hau at the same time as a mother of a Cathay Pacific flight attendant confirmed with the virus earlier. After inspecting the eatery o...

The government on Wednesday evening locked down three residential blocks, in Kowloon Tong, Causeway Bay and North Point after people who live in each of the buildings tested preliminary positive for a mutant coronavirus strain. Officials said resid...

Health authorities on Wednesday said four new Covid cases might be linked to a woman previously confirmed with the virus. The 62-year-old woman is the mother of a Cathay Pacific flight attendant, who had earlier been infected. The Centre for Healt...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said the government will re-impose strict anti-epidemic measures in Hong Kong to try to ward off a large-scale Covid-19 outbreak involving the Omicron variant, such as re-introducing a ban on dine-in services at restaurants...

The Court of Appeal has given the green light for a man jailed for possessing cable ties in 2019 to challenge his conviction and sentence in the city’s top court. Chan Chun-kit, 35, who’s a real estate agent, was found guilty by Eastern Court i...

Respiratory medicine expert Leung Chi-chiu on Wednesday sought to reassure passengers on board a luxury cruise liner potentially exposed to the Omicron variant that they’re unlikely to have caught the virus. Health authorities had ordered the vess...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said the government will consider introducing special mortgage arrangements for prospective buyers of subsidised flats, to make it easier for people to get on the housing ladder. In an interview with the Hong Kong Economic...

A representative of the taxi trade on Wednesday urged the government to step in to help cab drivers transfer their insurance policies to new companies, with the biggest insurer for the trade set to cancel some policies over the next few days. More t...

The District Court on Wednesday found three men guilty of conspiring to damage an MTR light rail stop in Tuen Mun in 2019. Li Kwan-ho, Ivan Cheung and Ryan Li were charged with conspiracy to commit criminal damage, after police searched a car they ...

Prominent medical experts have called on the government to immediately tighten social distancing measures to curb the spread of the Omicron variant, warning that a fifth wave of Covid-19 outbreaks could be imminent. Officials had on Tuesday reported...

Health officials will check passengers on a 'cruise-to-nowhere' after nine close contacts of a female Covid patient boarded a Spectrum of the Seas vessel on Sunday. The ship had been due to return on Thursday, but came back on Wednesday morning. ...

The government on Wednesday said no new cases of Covid-19 had been found following an overnight lockdown of a residential building in Tuen Mun, the home of a man who had tested preliminary positive for the virus, without a clear source of infection. ...

Health authorities on Tuesday locked down two buildings in Causeway Bay for compulsory Covid testing on concerns about the Omicron variant. The move followed a lockdown earlier in the day in Tuen Mun, after Hong Kong's first untraceable local case in...