The government has appointed a new head for RTHK. In a statement, a spokesman said Special Representative for Hong Kong Economic and Trade Affairs to the European Union, Eddie Cheung, will take up his new post as Director of Broadcasting in early Oct...

Lingnan University researchers on Friday called on the government to work on reopening its borders with the mainland, saying around a third of people they interviewed had lost their jobs or became temporarily unemployed due to a substantial drop in v...

Police on Friday arrested an 86-year-old man on suspicion of manslaughter, after his wife's body was found at their home in To Kwa Wan. Officers said they received a call from the couple's son on Thursday afternoon, saying his 81-year-old mother wa...

New People's Party lawmaker Eunice Yung on Friday published a newspaper statement announcing that she was cutting ties with her father-in-law, Elmer Yuen. On Wednesday, the Security Bureau denounced Yuen, along with journalist Victor Ho and disquali...

The government will start delivering another instalment of electronic spending vouchers on Sunday. Around 6.2 million people will be eligible for the HK$2,000 vouchers, according to Jessie Wong, the head of budget and tax policy for the financial se...

The head of a medical group operating two community vaccination centres says nearly 50 toddlers received Sinovac jabs at the facilities on Thursday – the first day children aged between six months and three years were able to get inoculated against...

The Hong Kong Observatory issued the Amber Rainstorm Warning Signal at 4.08am on Friday. It means that heavy rain has fallen or is expected to fall over Hong Kong, exceeding 30mm in an hour, and is likely to continue. There will be flooding in some...

The government on Thursday 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. ...

The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) on Thursday said it's investigating a cluster of imported malaria cases from Africa. The CHP said 30 people arriving in Hong Kong from July 1 to August 1 were found to have the mosquito-borne infectious diseas...

A green group has on Thursday warned that Hong Kong people have been taking fewer journeys on foot, threatening both their health and the environment. The World Green Organisation surveyed 500 residents in June and found that only 7.8 percent said ...

Hong Kong's daily Covid tally topped the 5,000 mark on Thursday and health authorities said infections haven't peaked yet. The Centre for Health for Protection reported 5,020 cases, 247 of them imported, for the day. Chuang Shuk-kwan from the centr...

Two more former childcare workers at a Prince Edward foster home have pleaded guilty to abusing youngsters there. Cheung Wai-yin, 30, and Lee Pui-ching, 32, appeared before Acting Principal Magistrate Peony Wong from the Kowloon City Court on Thurs...

The Hong Kong Observatory on Thursday cancelled the Standby Signal Number 1 at 2:40pm. It said that in the past couple of hours, the tropical depression over the South China Sea has weakened further. However, it warned that the outer rainbands as...

The government said on Thursday that almost 100 toddlers between six months and three years old have received a Sinovac jab in the first few hours of the vaccination scheme’s extension to cover this age group. Some 150 parents have also made vacc...

A doctor in charge of the Hospital Authority’s paediatric services said on Thursday that the number of young children infected with Covid-19 who have to be admitted to hospital has been increasing in recent weeks, as he urged parents to have their ...

A High Court judge on Thursday upheld a ruling of a magistrate who convicted and jailed a 21-year-old student for resisting arrest by police officers during a "shop with you" protest on Christmas Eve in 2019. The court heard that Lo Chun-sing was su...

The government's Dress Casual Friday scheme, which starts this week, has been hailed as a "great initiative" by a top recruiter. Leslie Tang is head of client solutions in Greater China for Randstad Hong Kong, a firm whose research has found Hong Ko...

The government on Wednesday 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. ...

The Hong Kong Observatory on Wednesday issued the Standby Signal Number 1 at 10.10pm. It said that at 6am on Thursday, the tropical depression over the northeastern part of the South China Sea was estimated to be about 110km east-southeast of Hong K...

A human resources consultancy on Wednesday said Hong Kong has fallen three places to eighth position in its global rankings of the costliest places to employ expatriates, despite a slight recovery in salary and benefit packages. ECA International ...