The Food Expo got underway on Thursday, with visitors expressing mixed views on the product tasting ban in force for a second year due to the pandemic. Some people queued up overnight to be among the first visitors to the five-day event at the Conv...

Chief Executive John Lee said on Thursday that Hong Kong needs to grab international talent in innovation and technology. Making a speech at an IT summit, he said this was among the views he collected in recent consultation sessions for his policy a...

The government said on Thursday that around 2,200 children aged between six months and three years have been given the Sinovac vaccine since it became available to the age group a week ago. That’s according to the Secretary for the Civil Service,...

Five people were injured in a nine-car pile-up on Tuen Mun Road on Thursday morning. At around 7:30am, seven private vehicles, a taxi and a van collided near Tsing Lung Tau San Tsuen. The accident happened on the Tsuen Wan-bound carriageway. Five ...

An aviation analyst says the reduction of hotel quarantine to three nights should boost business for Cathay Pacific, but that it could take up to two years for it to return to pre-pandemic levels. The airline on Wednesday reported a first-half loss...

A representative of local subsidised schools doesn't think the new "amber code" policy will cause much disruption in the sector when students return for the new school year next Thursday. Under the government's new code, inbound travellers who fini...

The government on Wednesday 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. ...

Three former leaders of the Liberal Party – James Tien, Selina Chow and Miriam Lau – said they have quit the party after its central committee voted to abolish the post of honorary chair that they held. The party said it had held numerous discus...

The Observatory has dropped all typhoon signals at 6:20pm on Wednesday as tropical cyclone Mulan moves further away from Hong Kong. The forecaster said Mulan will move across the vicinity of Beibu Wan, and will weaken gradually as it enters into t...

Health authorities on Wednesday reported 4,593 new Covid cases, including 4,344 local infections. There were four more Covid-related deaths, involving patients aged between 61 and 87. Officials said 23 patients are in critical condition and 25 are ...

The Observatory said it will consider issuing the Standby Signal No 1, or cancelling all tropical cyclone warning signals between 6pm and 9pm on Wednesday as tropical storm Mulan gradually moves away from Hong Kong. The forecaster said that in the ...

The government said foreign domestic helpers arriving in Hong Kong can start working and staying at their employers' homes after a three-day mandatory quarantine at a designated hotel, as a new quarantine rule takes effect on Friday. Alternatively, ...

Three workers were injured on Wednesday after they were hit by a falling metal pole at a construction site in Yau Tong as the typhoon signal number three was in force. The police said it received a report about the incident on Cha Kwo Ling Road at a...

An Eastern Court magistrate on Wednesday sentenced a former airline employee to 80 hours of community service over a prank on the son of former chief executive CY Leung at the end of 2019. Lai Siu-wang, an ex-ground staff for Hong Kong Express, earl...

A visit to Xinjiang later this month by Hong Kong members of the national legislature has been postponed due to Covid-19. Some local deputies to the National People's Congress (NPC) told RTHK that they were informed of the postponement by the releva...

The Hong Kong Institute of Human Resource Management said a survey it conducted has found that companies are investing more time and money on training their staff to retain talent amid the current brain drain. The institute surveyed more than 100 c...

The Observatory says the Strong Wind Signal No 3 will remain in force until at least 6pm on Wednesday. The forecaster said at noon, tropical storm Mulan was about 450 kilometres southwest of Hong Kong and was moving away from the SAR. It said ther...

Infectious disease expert Joseph Tsang on Wednesday urged the government to consider imposing stricter requirements for inbound travellers given an “amber health code”, but have to work at high-risk venues such as elderly homes or hospitals. Au...

Some 40 percent of students taking part in this year's Joint University Programmes Admissions System (JUPAS) on Wednesday received offers from nine local universities, with the Chinese University accepting the most top scorers. There were 39,523 st...

The Observatory says the Strong Wind Signal No 3 will remain in force until at least 3pm on Wednesday. At 10 am, Tropical Storm Mulan was about 400 kilometres southwest of Hong Kong, forecast to more northwest or west-northwest at about 18 kilometre...