The Society for Community Organisation (SoCO) on Monday called on the government to prioritise access for grassroots families to child care services, saying the lack of support during the Covid-19 pandemic forced some mothers to stop working and stay...

Customs officials said on Monday they'd foiled an attempt to smuggle electronic goods worth HK$160 million to the mainland using a river trade vessel. Officers said they stopped the boat bound for the mainland in western waters off Hong Kong on Apr...

Health Secretary Sophia Chan said where a medical school is located is not part of the consideration, when authorities decide whether to include it under a scheme that will allow non-locally trained doctors to practise in Hong Kong. To ease a manpo...

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 two hours or more from April 25 to May 1 must get a nucleic acid test for Covid-19. The bui...

Authorities on Sunday picked up five Covid infections after locking down a residential block in Ap Lei Chau overnight. 1,541 residents of Tung On House in Lei Tung Estate were tested. Separately, another building in Sha Tin has been sealed off for ...

Health officials on Sunday reported 300 new Covid infections – around 60 fewer than the previous day. Of the new cases, 119 were confirmed via PCR tests and 181 through rapid antigen tests. The Centre for Health Protection's Chuang Shuk-kwan said...

The only candidate in the Chief Executive poll, John Lee, said it's important for officials to feel the pulse of the public as he visited a wet market in Tin Shui Wai on Sunday. As one of three stops he made publicly for the day, he shook hands and...

A grassroots organisation on Sunday said almost seven out of ten working elderly people do not see retirement as an option because they won’t be able to make ends meet. The Society for Community Organisation said that’s according to a survey of ...

Lawmaker Regina Ip said on Sunday she thinks few people are leaving Hong Kong because of the upcoming drafting of local national security legislation. "People always move in and out of Hong Kong, there have been previous waves of emigration.....The...

Former health minister Ko Wing-man on Sunday urged the government to find the right time to conduct a citywide mass-testing exercise, so as to completely clear local Covid-19 cases. He said with Hong Kong seeing just a few hundred cases a day recen...

Police on Saturday issued more than 120 penalty tickets to customers of bars and a night club in Tsim Sha Tsui and Jordan, as part of a two-day enforcement operation. Eight operators of the premises were arrested for allegedly illegally operating u...

The public will be able to use two more electronic platforms to collect their HK$10,000 consumption vouchers later on in the year, meaning there will be six platforms to choose from. The new ones are HSBC's PayMe and Bank of China's BoC Pay. People...

Hong Kong's sole chief executive nominee John Lee said on Saturday that he wants to keep home prices steady after he is elected to the top job, because he believed this was best for Hong Kong's development. Lee was speaking at a live-televised foru...

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 the length of time and on the dates specified must get a nucleic acid test for Covid-19. ...

The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) on Saturday reported 363 new Covid infections – similar to the figure from the previous day. Of the new cases, 190 were confirmed via PCR tests and 173 through rapid antigen tests. There were 25 imported c...

Police say they have arrested three more people in connection with the murder of a woman in Tin Shui Wai. The two men and a woman, aged between 27 and 31, were arrested early on Saturday on suspicion of preventing the lawful burial of a body. They...

Labour secretary Law Chi-kwong on Saturday said the response to a new round of government employment subsidy has been enthusiastic, with close to 50,000 employers having submitted their applications on the first day. Under the scheme, eligible busi...

The convenor of the advisory panel on Covid-19 vaccines on Saturday warned people not to be complacent, even though the number of coronavirus infections has dropped. Speaking on a radio programme, Professor Wallace Lau said people should take the o...

Police said on Saturday that they're treating the death of a 30-year-old woman in Tin Shui Wai as murder. They said they received a report at about 6am on Friday that a man was dragging an object outside 70 Tin Ha Road. They said they found a 25-...

The government on Friday 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...