Hong Kong on Saturday reported 8,874 new coronavirus infections, including 509 imported cases. Nine more patients with Covid have died. The government has rejected calls to further relax social distancing measures and restrictions on people flyin...

The Under Secretary for Health, Libby Lee, on Saturday said Covid restrictions should not be further eased as case numbers were rising. She told a TV programme that the daily tally - which has doubled from earlier this month - had not peaked, and re...

The Commissioner of Police, Raymond Siu, on Saturday said officers had met staff members of the Hong Kong Rugby Union and collected their communication records as part of their investigation into the use of a wrong song in place of the national anthe...

Booster shots that protect against both the highly-infectious Omicron variant, and the original Covid strain, will be available to the public from next month. The government made the announcement after around 770,000 doses of the so-called bivalent...

Doctors and parents of a four-month-old girl who's in desperate need of a heart transplant on Friday made an urgent appeal for a heart donation. The Hong Kong Children’s Hospital said the girl is suffering from dilated cardiomyopathy – a condit...

The Airport Authority said on Friday that around 140 flights a day use the new third runway at the airport in November. It said some 11,000 flights have used it since operations began in early July, adding that other related works such as the expan...

Health authorities reported 8,878 Covid infections on Friday, of which 562 were imported. Sixteen more patients with Covid have died. ______________________________ USEFUL LINKS General Covid-19 situation: https://www.coronavirus.gov.hk/eng/ Commu...

The Court of Final Appeal said it will hand down a decision on Monday on whether to grant leave for an appeal that seeks to ban an overseas lawyer from representing former media tycoon Jimmy Lai in his upcoming national security trial. The Departmen...

Cardinal Joseph Zen and five others were on Friday found guilty of failing to register their fund for protesters as a society. The now-defunct 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund raised money to pay the legal and medical fees of protesters between July 201...

The Hong Kong Taxi and Public Light Bus Association on Friday submitted an application to the Transport Department for a HK$6 increase in the flag fall for urban taxis, to HK$33. The head of the association, Chow Kwok-keung, said he hopes the increa...

RTHK on Thursday won two prizes at the Consumer Rights Reporting Awards for features on orthodontics and nano flats in Hong Kong. The public affairs unit won the gold award in audio reporting for its piece on the risks of conducting online orthodont...

The head of the Hong Kong Rugby Union, Robbie McRobbie, said on Thursday that he doesn't think athletes will feel pressure about new rules on how to react when the national anthem isn't played correctly at events. The new guidelines from the Hong K...

Health officials have urged people not to panic as the daily number of Covid infections rises, saying social distancing measures will be tightened if necessary. They said the number of infections has jumped by more than 20 percent compared to last w...

The High Court on Thursday turned down a request by relatives of some of the victims of the Lamma ferry collision 10 years ago for a coroner’s inquest to be held. On the night of October 1, 2012, the Lamma IV ferry collided head-on with another v...

A taxi trade representative revealed on Thursday that the sector is planning to apply for a fare increase soon. The president of the Taxi Dealers and Owners Association’s, Ng Kwan-sing, said the trade is considering asking for a HK$6 increase at ...

Some members of Legco's transport panel on Thursday urged the government to relax various restrictions on bus firms, to allow them to bring in other sources of revenue and reduce the need to raise fares. They were speaking on RTHK, a day after the ...

The government has been urged to rethink the way its District Health Centre scheme is run, after the first such centre, in Kwai Tsing, was found to have failed to achieve most of its targets since opening in 2019. Auditors found low enrolment rates...

Police are investigating a fatal traffic accident in which a 52-year-old woman died in Wong Tai Sin on Wednesday evening. According to the force, the incident took place at 9:20pm when a light goods vehicle, driven by a 29-year-old man, collided wit...

The Housing Authority said on Wednesday that the average wait for a public housing flat as of the end of September had been shortened from six to 5.6 years. The average waiting time for elderly individual applicants, meanwhile, dropped from 4.1 to 3...

Two Chinese medicine practitioners from Guangdong have arrived in Hong Kong to help ease the territory's healthcare manpower shortage, the Hospital Authority (HA) said on Wednesday. Xie Dongping and Wu Guangping are working at Queen Elizabeth Hospit...