Labour minister Law Chi-kwong said on Monday that he hopes a new round of government employment subsidies to be handed out next month will bolster business confidence and boost the job market. Application will open on Friday and it's expected compa...

Sixteen new electric buses operated by KMB hit the roads on Monday, plying the No. 6 route between Lai Chi Kok and Tsim Sha Tsui. KMB said the single-deckers, manufactured by BYD and holding up to 81 people each, have battery management and water co...

Representatives of the fund management industry said on Monday that continuing travel restrictions are chipping away at Hong Kong's competitiveness as an international financial hub, as they called on authorities to provide a roadmap for a full reope...

Civil Service Secretary Patrick Nip has conceded that government services were unable to keep up with demand as the fifth wave of the pandemic gripped Hong Kong. At a Legco panel meeting on Monday, Nip faced questions from the DAB's Nixie Lam over l...

The co-founder of the Occupy movement, Benny Tai, on Monday pleaded guilty to illegal election spending in the run-up to the 2016 Legco polls, for placing newspaper ads to promote his strategic voting scheme. The "ThunderGo" plan Tai proposed sough...

The president of the Chinese Manufacturers' Association, Allen Shi, on Monday urged the government to further ease travel curbs for people arriving in Hong Kong, such as relaxing quarantine requirements. Speaking on an RTHK radio show, Shi said the...

University of Hong Kong epidemiologist Benjamin Cowling says he sees no justification for maintaining restrictions on people arriving in Hong Kong as officials prepare to allow overseas visitors into the SAR from Sunday. Speaking on RTHK's Hong Kong...

The government on Sunday issued compulsory testing notices for 40 places across Hong Kong. Anyone who has visited any of these premises and stayed there for more than two hours from April 18 to 24 must get a nucleic acid test for Covid-19 on Monday ...

The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) on Sunday reported 429 new Covid cases – almost 100 fewer than the day before – as well as the deaths of another 13 Covid patients. Officials said 221 infections were confirmed by PCR tests and the rest we...

The Hong Kong College of Physicians cautioned on Sunday that another wave of Covid infections could prove as deadly as the current Omicron-driven outbreak for people over 60, if vaccine uptake in this age group is still low at the time. The group's ...

A government vaccine adviser, Ivan Hung, said on Sunday that the authorities can consider bringing forward the next relaxation of social distancing measures, because much of the population has already acquired natural immunity against Covid-19. Chi...

Officials say three infected people have been found after Covid tests on almost 900 residents of two housing blocks in Diamond Hill. The checks were ordered on Saturday after the virus was found in sewage samples from blocks 2 and 3 of Bel Air Heigh...

Chief Executive candidate John Lee on Sunday said he is aiming to complete his election platform within the coming week, and he will be meeting with various sectors to explain his policy priorities. Lee — the sole candidate in the May 8 election â...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan on Sunday warned that it might take some time for the city's jobless rate to go down again, after unemployment climbed to its highest level in nine months. The latest unemployment figure rose to 5 percent in the perio...

Chief executive election candidate John Lee on Sunday visited two grassroots families living in subdivided flats in Yau Ma Tei, saying he is aware of the Hong Kong people's keen demand for housing. Lee said the residents told him their living condit...

Former security chief Lai Tung-kwok on Sunday called for the introduction of a new post of "national security education commissioner", warning that the public don't know enough about the issue and that Hong Kong's once-a-year National Security Educat...

Police say they have arrested a man on suspicion of arson and possessing offensive weapons after a fire in a Sha Tin housing block that put several people in hospital. The force said it received a report at 2.26am on Sunday of a fire in a unit on th...

Police on Sunday said they had opened a murder investigation after the death of a 19-month-old girl in North Point. Officers said at around 9.30pm on Saturday they received a report that the girl and a woman had collapsed inside a flat on King's Roa...

The government on Saturday issued compulsory testing notices for 40 places across Hong Kong. Anyone who has visited any of these premises and stayed there for more than two hours from April 17 to 23 must get a nucleic acid test for Covid-19 on Sunda...

Officials on Saturday locked down two residential blocks in Diamond Hill for overnight testing. The "restriction-testing declaration" on Blocks Two and Three of Bel Air Heights took effect at 4 pm and was expected to finish at around 1 pm the next ...