The Consumer Council says daily necessities will likely become more expensive at supermarkets due to a reduced number of cargo flights to Hong Kong. The watchdog's Chief Executive, Gilly Wong, issued the warning at a press conference on Monday, afte...

Some meatballs on sale in Hong Kong are not all they seem, the Consumer Council warned on Monday, with squid found in those said to be cuttlefish, and pork in balls masquerading as beef. The council said it ran tests on 60 samples of meatballs from ...

Health Secretary Sophia Chan said on Monday that it is “strange” that a woman has been infected with the Delta variant of Covid-19, adding that the case shows the local coronavirus situation is yet to be brought under control. Authorities said ...

Health officials said on Monday that they tested about 55 people during a lockdown in Aberdeen but no positive results were found. The lockdown of 2-4 Tung Sing Road followed the discovery of a preliminary positive case, which may involve the Delta ...

Police are investigating a suspected murder case in Cheung Chau early on Sunday in which a 54-year-old woman died. They said they received a report just before 8am from a 43-year-old man that his 54-year-old girlfriend had collapsed in a hostel on C...

The Labour Department said it's ordered the suspension of work at a construction site in Tsing Yi after a fatal accident on Sunday afternoon in which a male worker fell from the second floor. The worker was certified dead in the hospital. It said t...

Health officials on Sunday said they were banning passenger flights from Bangkok operated by Hong Kong Express Airways until January 29. A government spokesman said a passenger had failed to comply with requirements under the Prevention and Control ...

The government has locked down a residential building in Aberdeen, following the discovery of a preliminary positive case, which may involve the Delta variant. The case, a 23-year-old woman, works at the Little Boss pet shop in Causeway Bay and had ...

Health authorities on Sunday warned that the Delta variant of Covid-19 appears to be spreading in Hong Kong, on top of recently reported Omicron cases. The Centre for Health Protection said a 23-year-old woman has tested preliminary positive for th...

The Society for Community Organisation (SoCO) has on Sunday called on the authorities to directly deposit anti-epidemic subsidies into the bank accounts of those in need, saying its latest round of anti-epidemic fund will only benefit business owners...

DAB lawmaker Lau Kwok-fan on Sunday called on the government to consider cutting down on public consultations for town planning procedures, among other measures, to expedite land development. He pointed out that it currently takes up to ten years b...

The Financial Secretary, Paul Chan, said on Sunday that there have been mixed views in society over whether the government should distribute another round of electronic consumption vouchers. Writing on his weekly blog, Chan said he had been consult...

Health authorities on Sunday announced they did not find any Covid-19 cases from overnight lockdown operations conducted in Tsing Yi and Sham Shui Po. The lockdowns were issued yesterday night for Wang Sin House, Cheung Wang Estate, the home of a 41...

Health officials said on Saturday that they've issued compulsory testing orders for buildings in Tsing Yi and Sham Shui Po. They said both cases involved a mutant strain, and they believed the risk of infection was higher. They issued an order for ...

Health authorities said on Saturday that they are investigating how another aircraft cleaner might have caught Covid-19, after the woman tested preliminary positive for the virus. The 41-year-old lives in Tsing Yi and is in charge of cleaning facil...

The District Court on Saturday sentenced nine people to up to three years and four months in prison, after they were convicted of rioting near Polytechnic University in November 2019. The defendants, aged between 20 and 29, were charged with rioting...

A medical expert on Saturday advised the government to review its coronavirus measures according to the characteristics of the Omicron variant, saying that tables at restaurants must be spaced apart and the usage of partition boards should be scrappe...

Civil service chief Patrick Nip on Saturday said some vaccination centres will be used for the sole purpose of vaccinating children aged between five and 11 with the BioNTech jab. Speaking on a radio show, Nip – who is in charge of the city's ino...

Health officials ended an overnight lockdown at a residential block in Tseung Kwan O on Saturday morning having tested about 1,110 people, with no new Covid-19 cases found. The government ordered the tests at Tower 4 of Bauhinia Garden on Tong Chun ...

Authorities have locked down a housing block in Tseung Kwan O on Friday night, after a resident tested preliminary positive for Covid-19. Those living in Tower 4 of Bauhinia Garden on Tong Chun Street need to get tested overnight and stay in their ...