School closures earlier in the pandemic harmed children's quality of sleep even though many spent longer in bed, Hong Kong researchers said on Monday. A team from the University of Hong Kong looked at the sleep patterns of 759 primary school student...

The High Court on Monday issued an order for police to confiscate around HK$70 million of assets from a fund-raising platform linked to the protests in 2019 against the now-shelved extradition bill. Superintendent Chow Cheung-yau, from the force’...

Travellers arriving in Hong Kong on Monday were heading straight to their homes or hotels, instead of a designated quarantine hotel, as a new "0+3" arrangement takes effect. The new measure only requires new arrivals to undergo three days of “med...

Cardinal Joseph Zen and five other people went on trial on Monday over their alleged roles in a now-defunct fund set up to pay the legal and medical fees of anti-government protesters. Zen, former legislators Margaret Ng and Cyd Ho, Cantopop singer ...

The Travel Industry Council (TIC) on Monday said it expects outbound travel to surge by as much as 50 percent for the next few months as HongKongers take advantage of newly-relaxed Covid restrictions. However, the council’s executive director Fann...

A 65-year-old man has died after falling off a cliff on Lantau Island. Police say they received a call that he'd slipped and fallen at around noon on Sunday. The man was unconscious when rescuers arrived. He was flown to Eastern Hospital, where...

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...

Health authorities on Sunday reported that Hong Kong has added 3,897 Covid-19 infections. Of the newly logged cases, 117 were imported. The newly reported daily infection figure was down by about 25 percent from the 5,190 recorded the day before....

Hong Kong's only delegate to the country's top legislature, Tam Yiu-chung, said on Sunday he does not see any conflict between the SAR's external border relaxation and reopening borders with the mainland. The National People's Congress Standing Comm...

Five groups representing the catering industry have demanded that the government ease its Covid restrictions on restaurants, warning that more eateries could be forced to close as residents opt to travel instead of spending domestically. They called...

The chairwoman of the Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority (MPFA), Ayesha Macpherson Lau, said on Sunday that her team is working to reduce administrative fees for MPF schemes by 55 percent. Writing on her blog, Lau said the authority is maki...

Health minister Lo Chung-mau said on Sunday that it's currently not appropriate to scrap inbound travel restrictions, because Hong Kong needs to stay vigilant against new Covid variants emerging overseas. In the latest round of border relaxation me...

A non-governmental organisation has suggested that professional help should be offered to families involved in suspected child abuse cases, after official figures showed there was a jump in such cases during the Covid pandemic. The Social Welfare De...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan warned on Sunday that local exports will continue to be under pressure because of what he described as a precarious external economic situation. He said soon-to-be-announced export figures for the previous month have f...

University of Hong Kong expert Ivan Hung on Sunday expressed concern that serious influenza outbreaks may pose a bigger threat to the SAR this winter than Covid-19. He noted that the local vaccination rate for Covid is high and a high proportion of...

The government on Saturday issued compulsory testing notices for 80 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. ...

Health authorities on Saturday said that it would be very unlikely for Hong Kong to achieve zero Covid infections again as the SAR reported 5,190 new infections. Chuang Shuk-kwan from the Centre for Health Protection made the comment at a regular p...

Police commissioner Raymond Siu on Saturday said the force will beef up patrols on National Day, although he stayed mum on the exact number of officers expected to be mobilised. Speaking on a television programme, the police chief noted the threat o...

The Secretary for the Civil Service, Ingrid Yeung, said on Saturday that about 16 percent of children aged between six months and three years, have been inoculated against Covid-19 since the Sinovac vaccine became available for them some seven weeks ...

A medical expert advising the government on the Covid-19 pandemic on Saturday said that Hong Kong may be able to scrap the health monitoring requirement altogether for inbound travellers in weeks if local infections continue to drop. Ivan Hung from...