The government says some 7,900 people have made appointments to have their Covid-19 jabs at home since bookings for the outreach vaccination scheme opened a week ago. Twenty medical teams have started visiting homes in Eastern district on Tuesday m...

A new survey suggests Hong Kong has seen a 15 percent drop in the number of multi-millionaires, to 434,000. Citibank on Tuesday said it arrived at this number after carrying out a telephone survey in the final few months of last year involving 3,786...

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data on Tuesday arrested a man on suspicion of disclosing three people's personal data without consent. This was the second arrest the office has made after a new law criminalising doxxing came int...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Tuesday said press freedom is enshrined in the Basic Law, and it has always been safeguarded and upheld in the SAR since the handover. Ahead of the Executive Council meeting, the chief executive was asked by the media i...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday that the government will stick to its plans to further relax social distancing measures in the latter half of next month, saying Hong Kong is on the path to resuming normal activities after being hit hard by...

The government on Tuesday said it found six Covid-19 infections after testing almost 1,800 residents in two housing blocks in the New Territories. Officials said four residents in block 13 of Yuet Wu Villa in Tuen Mun tested positive for the virus,...

The government expects around 160,000 employers to apply for the latest round of pandemic wage subsidies under its employment support scheme (ESS), with registration due to open on Friday. Speaking on RTHK's Hong Kong Today programme, the head of t...

The government on Monday issued compulsory testing notices for 40 places across Hong Kong. Anyone who has visited any of these premises and stayed there for the length of time and on the dates specified must get a nucleic acid test for Covid-19. Th...

The police force announced on Monday that senior assistant commissioner Chow Yat-ming will be promoted to deputy commissioner in charge of management from Thursday. Chow, 49, will replace retiring incumbent Kwok Yam-shu. The force said Chow has a...

The Foreign Correspondents’ Club (FCC) announced on Monday that it will suspend this year’s Human Rights Press Awards. In a letter to the club’s members and uploaded on its website, president Keith Richburg said the decision was made after th...

The Court of Appeal has refused to hear a bid by a former member of the now-disbanded Hong Kong National Front to have his jail sentence for possessing explosives reduced. Louis Lo was given 12 years behind bars in April last year after pleading gui...

The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) on Monday reported 431 new Covid cases – similar to the previous day – as well as the deaths of a further 18 patients. Officials said 242 infections were confirmed by PCR tests, while the rest were reporte...

The government on Monday locked down two residential blocks in Sha Tin and Tuen Mun for overnight Covid screening, citing a range of factors such as sewage samples there testing positive for the coronavirus. Residents of Cypress House at Kwong Yuen ...

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...