Labour minister Chris Sun on Thursday said the government is working to update guidelines to prevent heat stroke for workers so that it won't be just about how hot the day is. He said officials are studying whether to add the observatory's heat ind...

Lawmakers on Thursday urged the authorities to widen the criteria in selecting medical schools for a special scheme aimed at enticing non-locally-trained doctors to practice here. The government has so far selected 50 medical schools whose graduates...

Health Secretary Lo Chung-mau on Thursday said the government and its expert advisers will disseminate information about Covid-19 in a consolidated manner in future to prevent any confusion about Hong Kong's coronavirus strategy. He was responding ...

Visitors to Ocean Park on Thursday morning were shocked to hear that An An, a giant panda given to Hong Kong as a gift by the central government, had been put down. A woman surnamed Chan said she was a huge fan of An An and visited him three times a...

Ocean Park announced on Thursday that An An, a giant panda gifted to Hong Kong by the central government in 1999, had been euthanised. An An was born in Sichuan in 1986, and was the world’s longest-living male giant panda under human care. In a...

The government on Wednedsay issued compulsory testing notices for 55 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. ...

Health officials on Wednesday reported 3,805 new Covid-19 infections, including 180 imported cases. More than 1,200 Covid patients were being treated in public hospitals, including 146 new admissions. Five people were in intensive care. Another dea...

The government has promised to put young people at the forefront of policymaking, with a revamped Home Affairs Bureau also including youth policies in its purview. As the new bureau's top official, Secretary for Home and Youth Affairs Alice Mak says...

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 filed a complaint with the equality watchdog. The form five student said on soci...

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...