Hong Kong's minimum wage has been frozen for the first time since its implementation in 2011, and the welfare minister denied it's unfair to grassroots workers. Secretary for Labour and Welfare Law Chi-kwong announced on Tuesday that the city's mini...

A Democratic Party district councillor was on Tuesday disqualified after the High Court ruled that he was unduly elected. Hung Chun-hin was representing the Tsui Ping constituency of Kwun Tong District Council, after beating the then incumbent, Che...

Police Commissioner Chris Tang on Tuesday dismissed a pro-establishment lawmaker's suggestion that anti-government protesters were drugged by criminals to get them to take part in the social unrest of 2019, but agreed that some of them acted like the...

A temporary hospital on Lantau for Covid-19 patients will open on the 26th of this month. Members of the media were on Tuesday given a tour of the North Lantau Hospital Hong Kong Infection Control Centre, near the AsiaWorld-Expo, prior to its offici...

Sources said on Tuesday that pro-establishment lawmakers are planning to further limit the room for any form of filibusters in the Legislative Council. Although the chamber is now left with no opposition after the pan-democrats resigned en masse in...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Tuesday assured the people of Hong Kong that coronavirus vaccines would only be administered after they're vetted by medical experts. This comes amid growing calls for the government to procure a vaccine which has been ...

The government warned on Tuesday that the authorities could break into people's homes and forcibly remove them if they don't answer the door during ambush lockdowns. In a statement, the administration complained that during recent lockdown operation...

Infectious disease experts are urging the government to lock down construction sites for mass coronavirus tests if there are any outbreaks. Speaking on a Commercial Radio programme on Tuesday, Dr Joseph Tsang with the Medical Association said constr...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Tuesday reiterated the government's claim that its "ambush-style" coronavirus lockdowns are useful even when no infections are found, insisting that residents confined to their homes welcome the moves. Critics say with ...

Carrie Lam said on Tuesday that it is her duty to meet the head of the judiciary but they never discuss any cases, so such meetings should not be construed as her intervening in judicial independence. The chief executive's comments followed reports ...

The government on Tuesday ordered everyone who works at the Hong Kong airport to undergo a mandatory coronavirus test to minimise the risk of imported infections from spreading into the SAR. Authorities said 70,000 workers will have three weeks fro...

Hong Kong's restaurant industry will miss out on HK$7 billion in February after the government extended social distancing measures to cover the lucrative Lunar New Year holiday, the president of the Federation of Restaurants and Related Trades said o...

The SAR's first overnight lockdown covering multiple sites came to an end on Tuesday morning with more than 1,700 people tested but no new cases of Covid-19 found. Health officials and police moved in on Monday evening, sealing off blocks in Yuen Lo...

The government on Monday announced a series of coronavirus lockdowns, shortly after Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung announced that the authorities would ramp up mandatory testing requirements ahead of the Lunar New Year holidays. The affected areas a...

Infectious disease expert Leung Chi-chiu said he agrees with the government decision to ramp up Covid testing even if there's only one untraceable infection in a building. That, along with the mandatory testing of workplaces with two or more cases, ...

Advisers to the Independent Commission Against Corruption say the watchdog received fewer than 2,000 corruption complaints in 2020, the lowest number in 40 years. The number of reports of corruption received by the body has been declining since 2016...

All residents of seven buildings in various parts of the territory are being ordered to take Covid-19 tests after new untraceable infections were found in their blocks. Under tighter testing requirements, mandatory orders are now being issued for re...

An investigation panel appointed by the MTR Corporation says the railway company underestimated glitches in a new signalling system which eventually led to the delay of a major upgrade. The probe showed the corporation first learned about the issue...

The government on Monday announced that it will further boost coronavirus testing in the city, with all residents required to get tested if a single untraceable infection is found in their buildings. Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung said that workplac...

Health authorities have ordered the partial evacuation of residents of a housing block in Tsuen Wan after a dozen coronavirus cases were reported there. People who live in units 04 and 05 on or above the 18th floor of Block R of Luk Yeung Sun Chuen ...