Education minister Christine Choi said on Monday that there are practical difficulties with importing students from the mainland or South East Asia, amid a drop in local student numbers. Lawmaker Tang Fei of the Federation of Education Workers made...

A workers’ group has on Monday urged the government to raise the minimum wage to at least HK$50 an hour, saying people on base pay are struggling to make ends meet. Speaking at a press conference, the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong Diocesan Pastor...

Secretary for Education Christine Choi said on Monday students must understand that their goals and dreams in life are linked to the future of the country. She also said they must learn from a recent speech President Xi Jinping made on Hong Kong. C...

Travellers flying in to the Hong Kong International Airport can choose to take designated taxis to their quarantine hotels at their own expense from Monday. The government said the taxi trade has arranged 100 taxis to provide transport services fro...

The government said on Monday it will conduct about 30 consultation sessions to listen to views and suggestions of legislators, representatives of various sectors and members of the public as part of a public consultation for the Chief Executive's 20...

The MTR Corporation has been urged to explain as soon as possible why it took its staff four hours to find a man after the family reported him missing at Hung Hom station last week. The 66-year-old man, surnamed Hui, was dead when he was eventually...

The head of an education concern group said on Monday that he supports short-term measures to deal with the shrinking student population, noting that tens of thousands of cross-border students could return once the pandemic situation stabilised. La...

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...

Hong Kong on Sunday experienced its third hottest day since records began in 1884. The Observatory said the thermometer reading at its headquarters went as high as 36.1 degrees Celsius in the afternoon, making it the hottest day ever for July. It...

Hong Kong on Sunday reported 4,064 new local Covid-19 cases – the fourth consecutive day that the city's daily coronavirus tally topped the 4,000-mark. There were also 186 imported cases. Eight more elderly Covid patients have died, half of whom...

A grassroots organisation on Sunday urged the government to strengthen enforcement of the tenancy control ordinance on subdivided flats, saying the law hasn't barred landlords from overcharging tenants for utilities. The legislation, which came in...

The government said on Sunday that it's trialling an upgraded electronic health declaration system from Thursday under which inbound travellers will have to complete an electronic health declaration form and get a QR code before boarding their flight...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan on Sunday warned of challenges facing Hong Kong's economic recovery amid the imminent interest rate hikes by the US Federal Reserve and other central banks. Writing on his official blog, the finance chief said the high...

The Dean of Chinese University's medical school, Francis Chan, said on Sunday that the daily number of Covid-19 infections may top 10,000 as the upward trend continues. Health authorities have earlier voiced concerns over the possible burden on the...

The Secretary for Education, Christine Choi, on Sunday said the government will distribute books to schools to promote national education, and strengthen students' understanding of the country's history, culture and development. She added that kind...

The government on Saturday 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. ...

Hong Kong has continued to swelter with the Observatory's Very Hot Weather Warning remaining in force for the ninth consecutive day, with the department recording 34.9 degrees on Saturday afternoon. Temperatures pushed above 35 degrees in many areas...

Health authorities on Saturday said they were worried that the gradual increase in Covid cases was putting hospitals under pressure, as Hong Kong's daily coronavirus tally topped the 4,000-mark for the third consecutive day. There were 4,034 local ...

Secretary for Housing Winnie Ho said on Saturday that the authorities plan to deploy modular integrated construction techniques similar to those used in building quarantines facilities as a way to speed up the delivery of public housing. Ho said the...

Government Covid advisor, Lau Yu-lung, said on Saturday that indicators show that the current wave of Covid-19 cases is still on an upward trend and the disease can't yet be considered endemic in Hong Kong. "HKU's reproduction rate for the virus wa...