The government may be trumpeting the imminent reopening of borders through ‘travel bubbles’ and other quarantine-free travel schemes, but Ocean Park chairman Lau Ming-wai said on Sunday that the cash-strapped attraction will keep its focus on loc...

Health authorities on Sunday confirmed two new local Covid-19 infections – both connected to a previous infection at a Tseung Kwan O apartment block. Officials also confirmed four imported cases and fewer than 10 preliminary positives. The two loc...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan on Sunday said he expects a ‘significant’ turnaround for Hong Kong’s economy, which contracted by an unprecedented 6.1 percent last year – even as he warned that low vaccination rates here may put this recovery a...

Labour minister Law Chi-kwong on Sunday played down the impact of a two-week travel ban from the Philippines, on local families who have been waiting for foreign domestic helpers from the country, saying the move is holding up far fewer workers than ...

Police are investigating the death of an elderly couple who were found unconscious in a North Point flat on Saturday as a possible murder-suicide. An 83-year-old man was found hanging inside the flat, as his wife, 85, lay passed out in the same room...

An economist has cautioned parents that their unhappy children may not be any better off if the family decides to move to the United Kingdom. Lingnan University's Professor Ho Lok-sang made the comments after reports emerged that as many as three t...

Police say they've arrested an elderly man living in a Tuen Mun care home in connection with the suspected murder of another man in the same facility. They said an 85-year-old man was found unconscious with facial injuries on Friday night, while a ...

The convenor of the Executive Council, Bernard Chan, has dismissed rumours that the government will soon impose further social distancing restrictions on people who have not been vaccinated. He also said it's impossible to carry out drastic measure...

Health officials on Saturday confirmed three new local coronavirus infections, and one of them is a Filipino helper who was found to be carrying a highly infectious variant of Covid-19 after she completed her quarantine. The helper, 38, was one of ...

The government said on Saturday that it found no coronavirus cases after testing around 950 residents in a building in South Horizons in Ap Lei Chau during an overnight ambush-style lockdown. Authorities sealed off Yee Lai Court, or Block 10 of Sou...

Lawmaker Priscilla Leung on Saturday urged the government to set up a centre to train specialists in child psychology, saying social workers may not be best suited to handle suspected child abuse cases. She was commenting after a couple was recently...

Health experts have called on authorities to step up infection control measures to prevent the mutated Covid strains from spreading in the SAR, after the third N501Y infection in the community was recorded on Friday. Professor Ivan Hung, co-convenor...

Health authorities said on Friday they were looking into two cases of death after receiving the BioNTech coronavirus vaccine. The first case involved a man, 43, with a history of hyperlipidaemia and obesity. He received a dose of the vaccine on Ap...

The government on Friday evening put a building in South Horizons in Ap Lei Chau on lockdown after a resident there came down with Covid-19 and the source of infection was not known. Residents of Yee Lai Court, or Block 10 of South Horizons, will un...

The legislator representing the catering sector, Tommy Cheung, said on Friday the government appears to be backing down on its decision to force all diners to use its LeaveHomeSafe app. The government has proposed once restaurant staff received thei...

The Foreign Ministry’s representative in Hong Kong has condemned the city's Foreign Correspondents' Club, as well as "external forces", for their "unwarranted" remarks about the conviction of investigative journalist Bao Choy. In a statement, the ...

A banker has pleaded not guilty to assaulting an off-duty police officer in December 2019, with his lawyer on Friday accusing the policeman of unnecessarily brandishing his baton before the alleged assault. Yu Shu-sang, the police officer who was al...

Beijing's national security agents are being given an 11,500 square metre harbourfront site for their first permanent base in Hong Kong. Since July last year, the Office for Safeguarding National Security (OSNS) has been operating out of the Metropa...

Health officials said on Friday that they may have found another person carrying a highly infectious coronavirus variant in the community. The patient was a domestic helper who arrived from the Philippines on March 27. Since moving into her emplo...

Four Central and Western district councillors were each fined HK$7,000 by Eastern Court on Friday, after they admitted to violating social distancing rules in Sai Ying Pun in August last year. Fergus Leung, Sam Yip, Jordan Pang and Napo Wong had bee...