The administration intends to submit its government restructuring proposal to Legco for scrutiny around the middle of this month, the chairwoman of Legco's house committee, Starry Lee, said on Friday. Chief Executive Carrie Lam earlier proposed set...

Health Secretary Sophia Chan on Friday said she thinks a hospital blunder this week where the dead bodies of two elderly men were mixed up before one was cremated was not related to the pandemic and may be a case of human error. Tuen Mun Hospital sa...

The observatory said on Friday that it expects a trough of low pressure to continue bringing unsettled weather to Hong Kong over the weekend. At 4:25am on Friday, the observatory issued its first Red Rainstorm Warning signal of the year, triggering...

Top microbiologist Yuen Kwok-yung on Friday sought to allay concerns over a potential Covid-19 outbreak in Kennedy Town, where sewage samples have tested positive for the virus and infections have emerged, saying there’s no need for people to panic...

The Observatory has cancelled the Amber Rainstorm Warning Signal at 7:40am on Friday. Nevertheless, it called on people to stay alert to the danger that may be brought about by river flooding. Earlier, the weatherman issued the Red Rainstorm Warn...

The Amber Rainstorm Warning Signal was on Friday morning issued by the Hong Kong Observatory at 7:05 a.m. This means that heavy rain has fallen or is expected to fall generally over Hong Kong, exceeding 30 millimetres in an hour, and is likely to co...

Classes of all AM schools and whole-day schools were suspended on Friday after the Red Rainstorm Warning Signal was issued. Schools were told to implement contingency plans and arrange staff to look after students who might arrive and ensure that co...

The government on Thursday issued compulsory testing notices for 22 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. ...

Tuen Mun Hospital on Thursday apologised for mixing up two corpses, with one of them already cremated before the hospital learnt of the blunder. A spokesman said one of the corpses was due to be sent to a funeral parlour on Wednesday while another w...

The Housing Department said on Thursday the average waiting time for a public housing flat reached 6.1 years at the end of March – the longest since 1999. That's up from 6 years in the previous quarter. And the average wait for elderly people liv...

Health authorities on Thursday ordered more than 150 people who visited a snooker club in Hung Hom to get tested for Covid-19 after a cluster of infections emerged there. Officials said four people confirmed with Covid had visited Sun Mong Snooker ...

The Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) said on Thursday that a survey it conducted suggests one in eight people have been sexually harassed at work in the past two years. In what it called the first sizeable poll of its kind, the equality watchdo...

The government locked down the Sai Wan Estate in Kennedy Town on Thursday afternoon for overnight testing. The "restriction-testing declaration" covered all five blocks of the estate and was expected to finish by 10am on Friday. Earlier in the da...

Beijing on Thursday expressed strong dissatisfaction with criticism made by western countries about arrests made over a now-defunct fund that raised money for the legal and medical fees of protesters, as sources said a fifth person has been arrested....

One of 12 Hong Kong people held by the mainland coastguard two years ago for crossing the border illegally has been given 20 months in prison here after pleading guilty to making explosives during the 2019 social unrest. The District Court heard th...

The Bar Association on Thursday condemned a call by a group of US Congress members for Washington to impose sanctions on national security judges and prosecutors in Hong Kong, saying it deplores any attempts to interfere with the SAR's judiciary. Se...

A basketball coach on Thursday questioned the effectiveness of the government's latest measures against sport venue touting, saying they don't get to the root of the problem. From May 16, people can make bookings online 15 minutes earlier than those...

The government's top IT official said on Thursday that there was a technical glitch with the updated version of the LeaveHomeSafe app in part because officials didn’t conduct beta testing before making it available. For some Android or Huawei pho...

A meteorological expert has cautioned against announcing school closures too early, saying that it was difficult to predict the severity of rainstorms too far in advance. Showers and thunderstorms continue to affect Hong Kong, although it escaped th...

A professor of geriatric medicine on Thursday questioned how long Beijing will be able to carry on with what she described as "draconian" measures to tackle Covid outbreaks. Jean Woo from the Chinese University's Faculty of Medicine was speaking on ...