The Consumer Council on Thursday urged the government to introduce laws on the use of artificial intelligence (AI), after its survey found a majority of respondents were concerned about digital data privacy. Currently, there is no specific legislat...

The Foreign Ministry on Thursday accused the Foreign Correspondents' Club (FCC) in Hong Kong of making use of every opportunity it gets to attack the government and support anti-China forces, after it expressed concern over the arrest of the head of ...

Police said they will dispose of a naval mine from World War II in the eastern waters of Hong Kong Island on Friday. Officers said they found the mine 1.4 kilometres off Cape D'Aguilar near Shek O after receiving a report from a diver last month, ad...

The head of Beijing's liaison office in Hong Kong, Luo Huining, said on Thursday that he believes the commercial and industrial sectors will seize Hong Kong's development opportunities as the SAR faces a key new chapter in the coming five years. At...

An engineer on Thursday called the collapse of the tower crane on Anderson Road in Sau Mau Ping “a mystery”, noting it had been in use for a month and was not bearing any weight when it tipped over. The accident killed three workers on the cons...

Chief Executive John Lee said on Thursday that two inquiries have been launched into Wednesday's deadly industrial accident on Anderson Road in Sau Mau Ping, where a tower crane collapsed and killed three workers. Lee said he was "very concerned" a...

A No. 3 alarm fire broke out at Container Terminal 1 in Kwai Chung in the early hours of Thursday morning, leaving one person injured. He refused to go to hospital and was treated at the scene. The Fire Services Department said the fire broke out a...

The government on Wednesday issued compulsory testing notices for 75 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. ...

Five people who pleaded guilty to or were convicted of rioting in Tsim Sha Tsui amid clashes at Polytechnic University in November 2019 have been jailed for 37 to 48 months each. Handing down the sentences on Wednesday, District Court judge Anthony ...

The District Court on Wednesday found five speech therapists guilty of conspiring to publish seditious children's books. The court ruled that the three picture books concerned – said to have described Hong Kong as the sheep village and the mainlan...

Health officials on Wednesday reported 10,194 new Covid infections, including 164 imported cases. The Hospital Authority said 2,870 patients were being treated in public hospitals, 15 of them in intensive care. Another 16 patients with Covid, age...

A member of the Commission on Children, Priscilla Lui, said on Wednesday that a proposal on imposing a mandatory reporting requirement for suspected child abuse should not only cover serious cases. The government has proposed to categorise child ab...

Firefighters on Wednesday afternoon recovered the body of a worker trapped under a crane that collapsed hours earlier in Sau Mau Ping, raising the number of dead in the disaster to three. Six others were injured. The crane came down on top of sever...

The Baptist University on Wednesday launched a programme to provide free Chinese medicine consultations and treatment for elderly patients suffering from long Covid. The university said people aged 65 or above, who’ve recovered from the coronavir...

Two people have died and six others have been injured after a crane collapsed at a construction site in Sau Mau Ping. The structure came down on top of several containers at the site on Anderson Road. One person died at the scene and another after ...

The High Court has put a retired electrician on probation for a year after he admitted killing his terminally ill wife to end her suffering. The prosecution had originally charged Kwok Wai-yin, 59, with murdering his wife, Chan Sau-wan, who was 54 ...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan said on Wednesday that the Greater Bay Area is developing into one of the top megalopolis and bay areas in the world, and Hong Kong should take a leading role in its development. At a seminar on the area hosted by the ...

The government on Tuesday issued compulsory testing notices for 73 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...

Health authorities on Tuesday reported 9,373 new Covid infections, 186 of which were imported. The Hospital Authority said it was caring for nearly 3,000 infected people at its facilities, with 14 patients in intensive care. Nine more Covid patient...

The government announced on Tuesday that it is cancelling the National Day fireworks display, citing the coronavirus pandemic. It is the fourth year in a row that the annual October 1 event has been scrapped. The authorities first suspended the d...