The Insurance Authority said on Friday that it has appointed accountancy firm Deloitte to take control of Target Insurance, a listed firm that owns around 60 percent of policies in the local taxi market. The regulator said four other insurance compa...

An RTHK programme host has tested preliminary positive for Covid-19. The broadcaster said it was informed of the case on Friday morning by the host who works for its Putonghua channel. RTHK said she had hosted a show at one of its studios in the pa...

All same-day tickets were snapped up in half an hour on Friday at a Covid-19 mobile vaccination station at Wong Tai Sin Temple Square offering the BioNTech vaccine to members of the public over the next three days. More than 100 people had queued up...

Officials and lawmakers have drawn ire for attending a banquet on Monday night in a growing political firestorm. Members of the public who called in to an RTHK radio show expressed anger at those who were there. "Everyone around the world is fighti...

More people, among them officials and lawmakers, will be sent into quarantine after they went to a banquet attended by a woman who has since tested preliminary positive for Covid-19. The banquet, which is said to be held to celebrate the birthday of...

Infectious disease expert Leung Chi-chiu said on Friday the government should suspend face-to-face classes immediately to prevent the coronavirus from spreading further. Leung said on an RTHK programme that it is worrying that a Covid cluster involv...

Five overnight lockdowns concluded on Friday morning, with no preliminary positive cases found in more than 3,300 tests at blocks in Ap Lei Chau, Tai Po, North Point, Happy Valley and Ma On Shan. Health officials said they tested 720 residents at Bl...

The host of a banquet that's forced two government officials into isolation after a woman who later tested preliminary positive for Covid showed up has apologised and stressed that all guests were vaccinated and used the LeaveHomeSafe app. Witman Hu...

Home Affairs Secretary Caspar Tsui and the political assistant of the Development Bureau, Allen Fung, apologised on Thursday for going to a banquet attended by a woman who’s since tested preliminary positive for Covid-19. The two were sent to the...

The government locked down four buildings in Ap Lei Chau, Happy Valley, North Point, Tai Po and Ma On Shan on Thursday evening for mandatory Covid-19 testing, as part of efforts to rein in the spread of the Omicron variant. It said people must get ...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Thursday that at least 10 senior government officials were at a banquet on Monday night that was attended by someone who has since tested preliminary positive for Covid-19. Lam said one of them, Secretary for Home ...

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...