An infectious disease expert says if Eric Chan and Erick Tsang can obtain two consecutive negative PCR tests that are carried out 24 hours apart before July 1, then it will be safe for them to attend the inauguration ceremony for the new government. ...

CLP on Friday said it has laid and activated a high-voltage replacement cable after its cable bridge in Yuen Long caught fire and led to a massive blackout in New Territories West earlier in the week. The company said the 132 kilovolts cable became ...

Covid-stricken chief secretary-designate Eric Chan and his wife aren't showing many symptoms of the virus, RTHK learnt on Friday. The government announced on Thursday that Chan, who's currently Chief Executive Carrie Lam's top aide, and constitution...

Executive councillor and senior counsel Ronny Tong says he doesn’t think the Covid infections of two incoming top officials will affect the new administration’s governance whatsoever. Speaking on Friday – a day after incoming chief secretary E...

The head of an education concern group has called on the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority (HKEAA) to find an alternative mode of assessment for Hindi and Urdu, after the body announced that the languages will be dropped as university e...

Hong Kong stocks opened with more gains on Friday morning, tracking a rally on Wall Street and putting the market on course for a healthy end to a broadly positive week. The Hang Seng Index rose 0.83 percent to 21,450. The Shanghai Composite Index ...

The Marine Department says the owner of the Jumbo floating restaurant boat has informed it that the vessel remains in waters off the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea after its capsize on Saturday, though it gave no indication of whether it is sti...

The government on Thursday issued compulsory testing notices for 59 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. ...

National security police have arrested three more people in connection with a case involving martial arts classes allegedly conducted with seditious intent. Officers said the suspects, aged 39 to 50, were taken into custody on Wednesday and Thursday...

The Hospital Authority (HA) said it plans to bring in senior mainland doctors from the Greater Bay Area in the second half of this year as part of efforts to help fight what it describes as a "very worrying" brain drain. Chairman Henry Fan said on T...

Yuen Long residents reported further power outages in the district on Thursday night, two days after a widespread blackout caused by a cable bridge fire. Some say their estates were out of power, but some street lights remained lit, and some shops ...

Incoming Chief Secretary Eric Chan and constitutional and mainland affairs minister Erick Tsang on Thursday tested positive for Covid after taking PCR tests. The government said they last went to work on Monday and Wednesday, respectively, and are...

Health officials on Thursday reported a cluster of Covid infections related to a Chinese restaurant in Tuen Mun. The Centre for Health Protection said 26 customers who went to Victoria Harbour Restaurant last Thursday evening had come down with the ...

A recent survey suggests the proportion of children who are overweight or obese in Hong Kong has more than doubled during the pandemic. At a press conference on Thursday, researchers from Chinese University's medical school and the Paediatric Founda...

A minority rights group on Thursday criticised a decision by authorities to drop Hindi and Urdu as foreign language subjects taken in future university entrance exams, saying the move is unfair to ethnic minority students. The Hong Kong Examination...

Exams authorities say they plan to allow qualified mainland schools to hold Hong Kong university entrance exams from 2024. In a circular to schools on Wednesday, the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority (HKEAA) said it has changed some r...

The government on Wednesday issued compulsory testing notices for 30 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. ...

Officials from the Centre for Health Protection said on Wednesday that they expect Hong Kong's daily coronavirus figure to top the 2,000-mark soon as the city added the another 1,323 local cases. There were also 124 imported infections. Nearly 600 ...

A former worker at a scandal-hit foster home was on Wednesday sentenced to four months in jail for assaulting a two-year-old boy on multiple occasions. Heung Wing-shan earlier admitted at the Kowloon City magistracy to having pulled the boy's limbs ...

More than a dozen schools in Tin Shui Wai suspended classes on Wednesday in light of a power outrage caused by a fire the night before. But some parents complained that the announcement came too late, with their children already arrived at school or...