Legco's Finance Committee on Friday approved a funding request for the government restructuring plan that's costing an additional HK$95 million in salary each year. Under the revamp, the number of policy bureaus will go up from the current 13 to 15;...

Police say they suspect a shooting and machete attack in Central in the early hours of Friday was linked to a dispute between two triad gangs. The attack took place on Wyndham Street near Lan Kwai Fong, with at least eight men armed with machetes la...

Hong Kong's FactWire News Agency said on Friday that it had ceased operation, without giving a clear account of the reason why. In an online statement, the investigative news outlet said it was time to bid its readers farewell. "In recent years, th...

Commissioner for Labour Chris Sun has dismissed concerns that scrapping the MPF offsetting mechanism will harm worker-employer relationships. Some lawmakers said they were worried that bosses might dismiss their workers before 2025 when they will no...

Lawmakers have accused the Medical Council of protectionism, over its cancellation of four licensing exams since 2020 for overseas doctors. The regulatory body cited Covid-19 outbreaks for scrapping exams for candidates who wished to come and pract...

The government has cancelled honours handed to former University of Hong Kong law professor Benny Tai and former Democratic Party lawmakers Yeung Sum and Sin Chung-kai. In a gazette publication on Friday, the government said the striking of the thr...

Police say three people have been arrested following a shooting and machete attack in Central that left three men injured. The attack on Wyndham Street took place at around 2.40am on Friday. A video circulating on the internet appeared to show a gr...

The government on Thursday issued compulsory testing notices for 36 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. ...

Police said on Thursday they seized about HK$25 million worth of suspected meth, and arrested two men in relation to the case. Officers said they took action on Wednesday after they discovered that a syndicate had stored a large amount of drugs in a...

One of 27 former foster home workers charged with child abuse on Thursday pleaded guilty to assaulting a two-year-old boy under her care. The Kowloon City Magistracy heard that Heung Wing-shan, 46, who was a senior childcare worker at the Children's...

Carrie Lam's comment on Thursday that she's not ashamed of her performance as chief executive drew mixed reactions from lawmakers, with one saying the outgoing leader has done well in some aspects, but another pointing to inadequacies in her work. A...

Health authorities on Thursday reported 674 new Covid infections, comprising 332 via PCR tests and 342 RAT-positive cases that have now been confirmed by laboratory tests. Thursday's tally was a 20 percent jump from 558 infections recorded a day ear...

The government on Thursday kickstarted the process of taking back some 1.1 hectares of land in Yuen Long and Fanling, with the aim of building some 1,660 subsidised flats at the sites. The plots in Yuen Long are at the junction of Yuen Lung Street ...

Legco on Thursday passed the government's bill to abolish the MPF offsetting mechanism after years of debate. The bill was supported by 72 members, while five voted against and 12 abstained. Officials expect the mechanism to be scrapped from 2025, ...

Outgoing Chief Executive Carrie Lam says her term of governance coincided with the most challenging time for Hong Kong since the handover, but she overcame the difficulties and handed in a report card with no regrets. Lam was speaking at her last q...

Rescuers on Thursday morning found the body of a woman who had gone missing during a hike in Bride's Pool in Tai Po the day before. The woman, said to be in her 50s, was declared dead at the scene. Police received a report from a man on Wednesday s...

An advocacy group for patient rights says it's no surprise that Shanghai's Fudan University has become the first mainland institution to have its medical degree recognised in Hong Kong. On Wednedsay, the government added another 23 institutions to ...

The government on Wednesday 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. ...

Former lawmaker Leung Yiu-chung on Wednesday was sentenced to two weeks in prison for disrupting a Legco meeting in 2019, after pleading guilty to violating the legislature's powers and privileges ordinance. The West Kowloon Court heard that Leung a...

Health authorities on Wednesday reported 558 new Covid infections, comprising 257 via PCR tests and 301 RAT-positive cases that have now been confirmed by laboratory tests. Sixty-three of the latest cases were imported. Meanwhile, the Centre for He...