Hong Kong's fifth wave of Covid infections took a toll on relationships between children and their parents, a survey suggests. The Jockey Club said it conducted a survey in May of 700 people with children of kindergarten age, finding that 85 percent...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan on Monday said the government has no plans to review the Hong Kong dollar's peg to the greenback, saying it's crucial to maintaining international confidence in doing business in the SAR. Questions have been raised as t...

Chief Executive-elect John Lee on Monday said there are four key areas when it comes to strengthening the quality and level of governance. In a commentary published in the Wen Wei Po newspaper, Lee said his 35 years of experience working in the pol...

The government on Sunday issued compulsory testing notices for 43 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...

Police on Sunday jointly charged a 33-year-old man and a 32-year-old woman with one count of murder. Police arrested the pair on Friday following the death of a one-year-old girl in Pat Heung. The case will be mentioned at Fanling Magistrates’ ...

Health authorities said they'd noted an increase in Covid-19 infections in Hong Kong in recent days which were linked to eased social distancing measures as they reported 515 new cases on Sunday. Chuang Shuk-kwan from the Centre for Health Protectio...

A technical glitch disrupted internet banking and ATM withdrawals for customers of HSBC and its sister bank, Hang Seng, for about two hours on Sunday. "We're sorry, this service is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later," a message on HSBC'...

A leading member of Beijing's top think tank on Hong Kong said on Sunday he believes the SAR requires officials who have a security-related background or experience to govern the territory in the next decade. The vice-president of the Chinese Associ...

A green group on Sunday has urged businesses to shoulder most of the responsibility to tackle plastic pollution in Hong Kong. The Green Earth made the call on World Environment Day, a day set by the United Nations for encouraging worldwide awarenes...

The government on Sunday urged the public not to let their guard down against Covid-19, saying there's still a chance cases could rebound. While the fifth wave of infections has been substantially contained, people shouldn't "overlook the risk of ep...

The government on Saturday issued compulsory testing notices for 46 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. ...

Covid-19 infections linked to nightlife continued to expand on Saturday as dozens more customers of two bars in Central were diagnosed with the virus, while the SAR saw a slight decrease in the daily caseload. The Centre for Health Protection said a...

Police said on Saturday they had arrested a couple on suspicion of murdering their 14-month-old daughter. They said the baby, who had suffered neck injuries, had been dead for between one and three days when officers found her body at a village hous...

Chief Executive-elect John Lee has warned that many hurdles must be overcome before Hong Kong’s border with the mainland can be reopened, and easing restrictions shouldn’t come at the expense of the mainland’s own anti-epidemic efforts. In an...

The head of the Paediatric Society, Patrick Ip, on Saturday called on kindergartens to take measures to minimise the risk of Covid transmission, saying it is hard for younger children to wear masks during naps. His comment came after officials repor...

Police maintained a heavy presence in and around Victoria Park throughout Saturday, after authorities closed off sections of the park to prevent unauthorised assemblies on the 33rd anniversary of June 4. Groups of officers stood by in the area, with...

The government on Friday issued compulsory testing notices for 41 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 government announced on Friday that it will be sealing off the main parts of Victoria Park, where people gathered for the annual June 4 vigil before the pandemic hit. "In view of the Police's observation that some people are using different cha...

Police on Friday said they had arrested a 59-year-old man for allegedly inciting others to inflict grievous bodily harm upon others. Investigators said they had made the arrest after probing social media posts which encouraged people to kill police...

Health authorities on Friday said there had been a Covid outbreak at another nightclub in Central. Fourteen people who visited Shuffle in Lan Kwai Fong on Saturday have since contracted the coronavirus. They are aged between 21 and 32. One of t...