A group of Hong Kong tourists headed to Taiwan on Friday for the first time since the start of the pandemic, after the island eased Covid restrictions for travellers from the SAR. Taiwan authorities announced earlier this month that Hong Kong peopl...

Hong Kong on Friday reported 8,008 new Covid-19 infections, of which 507 were imported. The daily caseload dropped slightly from the 8,052 announced the day before. Eight more patients with Covid have died. _____________________________ USEFUL LI...

Chief Executive John Lee on Friday had a bilateral meeting with the Indonesian president Joko Widodo during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Bangkok, with both parties expressing a desire to foster relations between the two plac...

The Hong Kong Toilet Association on Friday said while the overall hygiene of the city’s public washrooms has “definitely improved” after the government stepped up refurbishment efforts, more could be done to keep them clean. The group invited...

Lawmakers on Friday passed a motion of thanks for Chief Executive John Lee's maiden policy address, following a three-day debate on the blueprint. The passage came in the form of a show of hands as no councillor called for a vote by open ballot. Wh...

Police say they have arrested three more people in connection with a hit-and-run in Yuen Long last week that left a teenager seriously injured. A 14-year-old suffered multiple injuries when he was hit by a car near Castle Peak Road on November 7. ...

Former RTHK producer Bao Choy was on Friday told she can take her unlawful car licence plate search case to Hong Kong's top court. Earlier this month, the Court of Appeal upheld Choy's conviction for making false statements when accessing the gover...

Infectious disease specialist Leung Chi-chiu on Friday backed the government’s decision to halve the number of compulsory PCR tests for airport arrivals to two, saying he does not see the move affecting the local epidemic. "Imported infections, w...

Operation Santa Claus (OSC), an annual charity campaign jointly run by Radio Television Hong Kong and South China Morning Post, is raising funds for 15 charitable projects to help the needy. Marking its 35th anniversary, the annual campaign has rais...

A child welfare organisation on Thursday called on the government to beef up measures to tackle child abuse, such as reviewing penalties for abusers and speeding up legislation work to make reporting child abuse mandatory. Against Child Abuse said ...

Chief Executive John Lee has arrived in Bangkok for a summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum that begins on Friday. Lee told reporters that he greeted President Xi Jinping at the airport there. "I believe we'll have the chance...

Health authorities have warned that the number of local Covid-19 infections has risen significantly over the past week, adding that the first batch of BioNTech bivalent booster vaccine is expected to arrive at the end of the month. Officials also a...

A light goods vehicle managed to leave a tiny fenced road on The Peak on Thursday afternoon after being trapped there overnight. Police said they received a call for help from the driver just before 3pm on Wednesday. Online videos showed the van ...

Customs officers on Thursday said they recently seized around 100,000 counterfeit football jerseys and sports shoes with an estimated market value of more than $50 million. Fifteen people were arrested and released on bail. Officers said they foun...

Two former Cathay Pacific flight attendants who are believed to have brought the Omicron variant into the community last December were on Thursday convicted of violating quarantine rules. Eastern magistracy heard that Wong Yoon-loong, 46, was subje...

High Court judge Audrey Campbell-Moffat has informed the judiciary that she will take early retirement in August next year. According to the judiciary, Campbell-Moffat had originally opted to extend her retirement age to 70. But in August this ye...

A lawmaker and former MTR engineer, Gary Zhang, has called on the MTR Corporation to thoroughly review its maintenance procedures, to check if Sunday's partial train derailment at Yau Ma Tei station was caused by insufficient checking of barriers and...

Tributes have been pouring in for Hong Kong DJ and music producer Janette Slack, who died at the age of 42. In a social media post, her brother, Trevor Slack, announced the death of his sister. "She was the light and soul of the room," he wrote. ...

A dislodged metal barrier by the side of the tracks caused a partial train derailment over the weekend, the MTR Corporation said on Wednesday. The railway company also said confusion over a public announcement on the evacuation of the train in ques...

The government said on Wednesday that it's looking to table a bill to the Legislative Council in the latter half of next year to lower the triggering threshold for compulsory land sales for redevelopment. In the Chief Executive’s policy address l...