The government said on Friday that people will need to have been unemployed, or have had their work suspended, for 30 straight days in order to be eligible for an unemployment subsidy of HK$10,000. Officials said applications under the HK$3 billion ...

Health authorities on Friday found 946 Covid cases from overnight lockdowns of residential blocks in Tuen Mun, Wong Tai Sin, Sha Tin, Aberdeen and Sham Shui Po, after the virus was detected in sewage samples. Among them, 134 preliminary-positive cas...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced on Friday that the government will launch a new round of the employment support scheme, providing three months of subsidy to up to 1.3 million workers affected by the fifth wave of the pandemic. Under the scheme,...

Government expert adviser Yuen Kwok-yung said on Friday that Hong Kong should only ease social distancing measures when the Covid vaccination rate is "very high". This came after Chief Executive Carrie Lam hinted at changes to pandemic rules, saying...

The government has been urged to quickly provide more help for workers and businesses so they can make ends meet amid this wave of Omicron outbreak. Speaking on an RTHK programme on Friday, unionist lawmaker Lam Chun-sing said he fears the unemploy...

A 70-year-old man has died just over a week after he was allegedly attacked in an Admiralty shopping mall, police said on Friday. The man had been found lying unconscious with head injuries at Pacific Place on March 9. He was taken to Queen Mary ...

The minister in charge of Hong Kong's Covid-19 vaccination drive says the authorities have met their target of giving a first dose of Covid vaccine to all eligible elderly care home residents. Civil service chief Patrick Nip said vaccine outreach t...

A study has found remote learning can take a toll on children's learning ability, their physical health, and even social skills. The Hong Kong Primary Education Research Association questioned more than 260 primary school teachers and 440 parents i...

The MTR Corporation said on Friday services are getting back to normal after there were delays on the Kwun Tong Line during the morning rush hour because of a faulty overhead cable near Yau Ma Tei station. The rail company said the faulty overhead ...

Police on Friday reclassified an attempted murder case as murder, after the alleged victim, a 70-year-old man, died in hospital on Thursday evening. On March 10, police arrested a 23-year-old male suspect in connection with an incident in Central t...

The Department of Health on Thursday said it's speeding up the handling of dead bodies after a spike in death cases during the current Covid outbreak. Currently, the bodies of patients who passed away at accident and emergency departments of hospit...

Hong Kong Customs seized a total of around 5,000 kilograms of what they suspect to be endangered red sandalwood at the Kwai Chung Customhouse Cargo Examination Compound and Hong Kong International Airport on Wednesday. Such quantities of the wood wo...

Hong Kong's unemployment rate for the three-month period ending in February has risen to 4.5 percent, the highest since September 2021. The latest figure marks a substantial jump from the 3.9 percent logged over the previous three months. The Cen...

Hong Kong's daily Covid caseloads dropped to 21,650 on Thursday, but health officials said it's too early to tell if the downward trend would continue. Among the new cases, the number of PCR positive infections fell to a two-week low of 8,628, whil...

Chief Secretary John Lee on Thursday announced the opening of a community isolation facility in Hung Shui Kiu. There are around 550 rooms with 1,600 beds at the site -- the fifth built with help from the central government. Speaking to reporters a...

Police on Thursday said they had arrested a nurse and the woman in charge of a clinic in Kwun Tong for allegedly conspiring to give out falsified medical certificates for vaccine exemptions. The pair, aged 28 and 69, are suspected of conspiracy to f...

The government on Thursday found 907 preliminary positive Covid-19 infections after testing residents of six buildings in Tsing Yi, Tuen Mun, Sha Tin, Kwun Tong and Wong Tai Sin during overnight lockdowns. Hang Yee House at Cheung Hang Estate, Tip ...

Cathay Pacific on Thursday confirmed it has stopped flying over Russian airspace, amid the country's assault on Ukraine. In a brief statement to RTHK, the Hong Kong carrier said: "We regularly review our flight routings internally and also with inf...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Thursday that the government will soon give an update on its coronavirus strategy, as she acknowledged that residents and businesses in the SAR are losing patience with the situation. Speaking at her daily Covid b...

Three University of Hong Kong microbiologists, including government adviser Yuen Kwok-yung, have urged the government to decide on a roadmap to returning to normal life, so people can regain confidence and hope. Yuen, David Lung and Siddharth Sridha...