The Law Reform Commission (LRC) on Wednesday proposed introducing new offences to better tackle hacking or other cybercrime. It said at the moment, Hong Kong does not have an ordinance that specifically deals with cybercrime, and different offences ...

Some ethnic minority students who received their university entrance exam results on Wednesday said they are looking beyond their success in education and hoping to give back to the community in future. Mehmood Ayesha was one of more than 40,000 se...

Education Secretary Christine Choi on Wednesday said schools can professionally handle matters relating to male students who want to have their hair long, after a pupil said he had filed a complaint with the equality watchdog. The form five student ...

Eight top local students – all from different schools – received perfect scores as more than 40,000 secondary school students got results from their university entrance exams on Wednesday morning. Tsang Chi-pang was among those who achieved leve...

Secretary for Justice Paul Lam said on Wednesday that morale is high in the Department of Justice despite a recent call by a United States’ China policy panel for Washington to sanction him and 15 public prosecutors. On an RTHK programme, Lam sai...

The government on Wednesday objected to a United States report on human trafficking, describing it as “biased and unfair”. In the 2022 Trafficking Persons Report, the US State Department said the Hong Kong government “does not meet the minimum...

The head of a community college says he expects a further decline of up to 5 percent in the number of students sitting Hong Kong's main secondary school leaving exam. Professor LS Chan from HKU Space Community College was commenting ahead of the rele...

The government on Tuesday issued compulsory testing notices for 74 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...

Book fair exhibitors said on Tuesday they expect business to suffer this year, saying sales are likely to be affected by factors like pandemic restrictions and a delayed summer break. The annual event, which this year is themed on history and city ...

About 10 representatives from the taxi trade have protested outside the government headquarters in Tamar, urging Chief Executive John Lee to introduce tougher penalties against what they call illegal ride-hailing services. They estimated that ride-...

The Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority (HKEAA) on Tuesday said 17,336 day school students who sat this year's Diploma of Secondary Education Examination met the minimum university entry requirements. That amounts to around 42 percent of...

Hong Kong on Tuesday recorded 3,019 new local coronavirus infections, 237 imported cases and four deaths of Covid patients. The Hospital Authority said a total of 1,190 people with Covid were being cared for in public hospitals – 152 of them newl...

Hong Kong's unemployment rate has fallen for a second straight month, to 4.7 percent, new government data released on Tuesday showed. The latest jobless rate, covering the three months from April, was 0.4 percentage points lower than the March to M...

National People's Congress Standing Committee member Tam Yiu-chung on Tuesday said all Hong Kong people have a duty to remain vigilant against anti-China forces – but stressed that this label doesn’t apply to those who merely hold different views...

The District Court on Tuesday sentenced a school bus driver to five months behind bars over a crash in Sha Tin in June last year that left almost two dozen students injured. Chan Kam-tong, 57, had earlier pleaded guilty to dangerous driving. The c...

Police on Tuesday said they had arrested a second man in connection with abnormal messages sent out via TVB’s mobile app two months ago. Officers said the 19-year-old was arrested last Wednesday on suspicion of access to a computer with dishonest...

Police said they're investigating a fatal traffic accident in Wong Tai Sin on Monday afternoon in which a 48-year-old man died. They said the 48-year-old man reportedly lost control while he was driving through Tate's Cairn Tunnel heading towards Sh...

The government on Monday issued compulsory testing notices for 81 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 green group on Monday urged the government to map out a timetable to regulate disposable utensils, saying current plans are not enough to tackle the waste problem in Hong Kong. The government hopes to stop the sale and use of disposable polystyre...

Health authorities on Monday reported 3,436 new Covid infections, including 254 that were imported. Officials said 1,182 Covid patients were being treated in public hospitals, including 149 new admissions. Four patients were in intensive care. Th...