The government on Tuesday announced that the East Rail Line's harbour-crossing extension will open on May 15. The line will link Hung Hom to Admiralty, via a new Exhibition Centre Station. The journey time between Hung Hom and Admiralty will be cu...

Hong Kong moved a step closer to returning to normal life on Tuesday as more children resumed face-to-face classes. Some kindergarten and secondary school students were allowed back to school as a further relaxation of social distancing rules came ...

Beaches and swimming pools are to be allowed to reopen from May 5 and restaurants will be able to seat up to eight customers per table, while people exercising outdoors will no longer need to wear masks. The relaxation in pandemic restrictions was a...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday that she’s confident her proposal to restructure the government will be endorsed by lawmakers before her term ends on June 30, so it can be implemented once her successor takes over. Lam has proposed set...

An independent China strategist says Hong Kong's sole Chief Executive candidate, John Lee, will need to appoint capable ministers in order to secure achievements in his first 100 days in office. Speaking on RTHK's Hong Kong Today programme on Tuesda...

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 two hours or more from April 26 to May 2 must get a nucleic acid test for Covid-19. The bui...

The sole contender in the upcoming Chief Executive election, John Lee, is to hold an election rally on Friday – two days before the 1,500-strong election committee votes. Lee told reporters on Monday that while he cares about the number of votes h...

Health authorities reported 283 new Covid infections on Monday, the first time that Hong Kong's daily caseload has fallen below the 300 mark in almost three months. Of the latest cases, 120 were identified by PCR tests and the remaining 163 came fr...

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...