The Immigration Department said it will follow up on five cases of Hong Kong residents reported missing in Southeast Asia by their families. The department said on Wednesday it had received 17 requests for assistance since January from families of H...

The Hong Kong Bird Watching Society on Wednesday said the number of sparrows in the SAR has reached the highest level in five years, though they're still struggling to work out why. The group said its surveyors found around 287,000 Eurasian Tree Sp...

RTHK has learned that the Secretary for Justice, Paul Lam, informed defendants in the case relating to the pan-democratic camp’s Legco primaries in 2020 that their upcoming trial will be conducted without a jury. Lam reportedly said in relevant do...

The government on Wednesday said it will launch a comprehensive review of the city’s hygiene laws to better keep Hong Kong clean. The territory-wide cleanup was the focus of the second round of informal "antechamber talks" at the Legislative Coun...

Chief Executive John Lee said on Wednesday that the government will ensure that it “keeps the economy going” as it continues to rein in the Covid outbreak. Giving a speech at the Hong Kong Summit, he said he understands the importance of keeping...

The operator of the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal said on Wednesday that it will take between three to six months to bring cruises back to Hong Kong, with many major operators already setting itineraries that bypassed the SAR in the months and years ahead....

A paediatric specialist has called on parents to keep a close eye on their children who are infected with Covid, saying hospitals are seeing more croup cases as well as a post-Covid condition that could put them into an intensive care unit. Children...

The government on Tuesday 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. T...

Police said on Tuesday they had arrested 19 people on suspicion of money laundering in a case involving some HK$100 million. Chief Inspector Wong Chi-tang of the Organised Crime and Triad Bureau said the suspects, aged between 28 and 67, were linked...

A parkour coach on Tuesday advised against training on rooftops, a day after a teenager was believed to have plunged to his death while doing the extreme sport atop a building in Tsim Sha Tsui. Lo Chun-chung from the Hong Kong Parkour Association h...

Cathay Pacific said on Tuesday easing quarantine arrangements for inbound travellers are expected to boost its business in the near future, but the airline also spoke about the difficulty of adding passenger capacity under current Covid rules for air...

Hong Kong on Tuesday recorded 4,890 new local Covid cases and 11 new deaths. There were also 272 imported infections. Health officials said 1,813 patients were being treated at hospital, including nine under intensive care. A chief manager at the...

Tourism sector representatives on Tuesday urged the authorities to resume the “cruises to nowhere” tours and review the suspension mechanism imposed on cruises. These tours have been put on hold since early this year, forcing some cruise lines ...

The former head of the national security police, Frederic Choi, testified in court on Tuesday that he had never received any sexual services in a massage parlour raided by officers in an anti-vice operation last year. Choi, the first director of the...

A man was jailed for five months on Tuesday for selling fake MIRROR concert tickets. So Lok-lam, 20, earlier pleaded guilty to obtaining property by deception and possessing a false instrument. The West Kowloon Court heard that a buyer planned in...

Fund management representatives on Tuesday called on the government to lift all quarantine measures by November, saying it is crucial for the SAR to reconnect with the world. The Hong Kong Investment Funds Association (HKIFA) said it surveyed 36 fu...

The government said it will take more resolute action against misbehaving civil servants, after 51 of them were dismissed in the previous financial year. That accounts for around a third of more than 150 government staff sacked in the past five yea...

The Commissioner for Transport, Rosanna Law, said on Tuesday that the government is planning to introduce new legislation to hold vehicle owners criminally liable if they fail to dispose of their cars or motorcycles properly. Speaking on an RTHK pro...

Concertgoers have mostly reacted positively to the refund options offered by the MIRROR concert organisers. The shows were halted after two dancers were injured by a falling giant video panel during a performance at the Hong Kong Coliseum on July 28...

A security guard has died after she was struck by a falling car park gate at the Yaumatei Maternal and Child Health Centre. The industrial accident happened at around 6pm on Monday when the metal gate measuring 4.7 metres wide and 2.5 metres tall h...