Marine police and customs officers on Thursday said they had intercepted a boat in Hong Kong waters and arrested a man who allegedly attempted to smuggle over a hundred cats and dogs into the territory. Officers said they spotted the speedboat nea...

The Federation of Trade Unions (FTU) on Thursday urged the government to relax the criteria for an unemployment subsidy set up for workers affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Among other requirements, applicants must have been out of job for 30 stra...

The Travel Industry Council said on Thursday that it hopes Japan will allow Hong Kong residents to travel there, including those vaccinated with a Covid jab the country doesn't recognise at present. Japan has announced it will open its borders to sm...

Nightlife tycoon Allan Zeman on Thursday welcomed the reopening of venues such as bars in the latest round of easing of social distancing measures, but cautioned that the industry was facing a shortage of personnel after months of closures. Speaking...

The government on Wednesday 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 government on Wednesday sealed off West Terrace at Sai Wan Estate for overnight coronavirus testing. The Kennedy Town residential block had already been under lockdown last week as part of the restriction-testing declaration exercise that cover...

Health authorities said on Wednesday that six more people who visited a private kitchen in Kwun Tong have now been infected with Covid, raising the total to 26. That accounted for more than half of the 45 visitors and four staff who were at the prem...

The authorities are expected to launch a new trial for countdown timers at pedestrian crossing lights next year. The timers, which involve the use of artificial intelligence, will inform people of changes of traffic lights in advance, helping them d...

Secretary for Security Chris Tang said the government will make reference to security legislation in other jurisdictions, such as the National Security Bill in the UK, as it comes up with Basic Law Article 23 national security legislation. Writing o...

The University of Science and Technology is poised to appoint neuroscientist Nancy Ip to succeed Wei Shyy as president. Shyy resigned last year, and will step down in October – almost a year before his five-year term is due to end. In an email t...

Lawmakers on Wednesday questioned the government's handling of waste styrofoam boxes which have been spotted around town in recent months. Heaps of styrofoam boxes carrying vegetables and fruits from the mainland to Hong Kong were discarded as mainl...

Civil servants are on track to receive a pay rise of up to 7.26 percent after a two-year freeze on their salaries. The latest pay trend survey released on Wednesday recommended salary increases of 2.04 percent for junior civil servants, 4.55 percent...

The Asian Para Games scheduled to take place in Hangzhou between October 9 and 15 have been postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Organisers said a new schedule will be announced in the near future. The announcement follows the postponement of t...

Secretary for the Civil Service Patrick Nip on Wednesday warned that the number of Covid cases may rise as social distancing rules are further relaxed. He also said the virus' reproduction number is again above one. From Thursday, restaurants will b...

Less than one in five local gyms will have enough resources to install required ventilation equipment to allow patrons to exercise mask-free when that's permitted from Thursday, a fitness analyst said on Wednesday. That's among the latest raft of Ho...

The government on Tuesday 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. T...

Save the Children is urging the government to appoint a commissioner for children’s online safety after a survey suggested four in 10 students in Hong Kong have been exposed to unwanted sexual content online. The survey that it commissioned, which...

City University's governing council on Tuesday appointed Singaporean engineer Freddy Boey as its next president, replacing Way Kuo, who will retire in 12 months from now after 15 years in charge. Boey is currently a deputy president at the National...

Health officials on Tuesday said another six hotels will start accepting bookings from inbound travellers for quarantine purposes from later this week. Officials said they had invited more operators to join the quarantine scheme in anticipation of ...

Health officials on Tuesday said they are looking into whether some people linked to a Covid cluster have deliberately misled them, saying the patients' accounts of why they had a visited a private kitchen in Kwun Tong didn't make sense. Twenty infe...