The government is suggesting broadening a ban on feeding wild animals to cover the whole of Hong Kong and introducing tougher penalties for offenders, in a bid to more effectively deal with boars causing nuisance in urban areas. In a paper submitte...

The government on Tuesday proposed an across-the-board pay rise of 2.5 percent for all civil servants. The government-appointed Pay Trend Survey Committee had earlier suggested salary increases of 2.04 percent for junior civil servants, 4.55 percen...

An administrator of a Telegram group was jailed for six months on Tuesday for calling on people to join unauthorised assemblies and to disrupt traffic on Hong Kong Island. Lee Shing-hei, who worked in telecommunications, forwarded messages to the g...

Chief Executive John Lee has written to the legislature asking councillors to focus on several policy areas when he goes there on Wednesday for his first question-and-answer session as CE – though they can ask questions outside the suggested parame...

The deputy chairman of Legco's housing panel, Leung Man-kwong, on Tuesday described Chief Executive John Lee's housing strategy as safe, saying it's crucial not to let public housing waiting times slip. Lee has said that one of his targets is to red...

Chief Executive John Lee says he will be pragmatic in handling Hong Kong’s housing shortage, and will be honest with the public if the government encounters any problems when tackling the issue. Lee was speaking at a media briefing on Tuesday befo...

An engineer on Tuesday said it could be difficult to find the real reason why an engineering vessel broke in two during a typhoon at the weekend. Four of the crew have been rescued and 12 bodies recovered, while another 14 sailors are still missing. ...

The government on Monday issued compulsory testing notices for 39 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...

A local company said on Monday it will trial a four-and-a-half-day work week this summer. New World Group is giving workers at several of its units half a Friday off from July until September without cutting their pay. On top of that, these emplo...

DAB chairwoman Starry Lee said on Monday that she thinks the government adopted all the anti-epidemic measures possible relating to celebrations marking the July 1 anniversary, and the Covid infections that emerged were "unpredictable". Party member...

Hong Kong on Monday reported 1,645 local coronavirus infections, with 600 of the cases reported by schools. The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) said it has asked a school in To Kwa Wan to suspend a primary six class after three students and a te...

A catering union on Monday said it’s helping former employees of Asia Catering to recover unpaid wages, after several eateries under the group shut down without warning earlier this month. Ma La Niang Zi, Mee Lemongrass and Kokonoi Shokudo were a...

Police have launched an investigation after an officer's locker was broken into and HK$1,650 stolen. It's understood that the theft took place at the force's Kowloon East regional headquarters on Sunday. The officer was said to have checked his lo...

A man was on Monday remanded into custody after he appeared at the Kowloon City Court charged with murdering his ex-girlfriend last week. Lo Chun-ming, 28, is accused of murdering yoga instructor, Aqua Chow, at the Ritz-Carlton hotel some time betw...

Top officials on Monday arrived at the government headquarters for their first day of work, with some saying they would strive to achieve objectives set out by President Xi Jinping, and deliver on Chief Executive John Lee's campaign pledges. Deputy...

The District Court on Monday found six men guilty of a range of triad-related charges. They were prosecuted following a police undercover operation that lasted nearly two years and ended in July 2018. The court heard that the defendants claimed to ...

Mainland authorities say another sailor has been rescued from an engineering vessel which snapped in two in waters southwest of Hong Kong as Typhoon Chaba passed through the area on Saturday. Twelve bodies have also been found in the sea. Accordin...

The government on Sunday issued compulsory testing notices for 65 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...

Renowned Hong Kong novelist Ni Kuang has died at the age of 87. Two of his friends told RTHK that the popular Chinese language novelist passed away on Sunday afternoon. One of them said he had been sick for some time, and his family had been cari...

All tropical cyclone signals were cancelled at 7.40pm on Sunday following Typhoon Chaba. The Observatory had earlier lowered the signal from Strong Wind Signal No 3 to Standby Signal No 1. The government said on Sunday it had received at least 45...