About a dozen residents of a Yuen Long village were in a brief standoff with authorities on Wednesday before officers evicted all of them to make way for a public housing development. The residents were those who remained at Fung Chi Tsuen in Wang ...

A woman who admits assaulting her children by pouring boiling water over them has pleaded for leniency in court, saying she had been under enormous stress as her husband never helped look after the youngsters. The woman, 37, was not named in the Dis...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan said on Wednesday that the GDP for the first quarter in the year will show "pretty strong growth", but warned that unemployment rate will probably remain high until cross-border travel resumes. A formal announcement on...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Wednesday that the government is determined to improve national education in Hong Kong, in part to make sure that Beijing's beneficial policies towards the SAR don't go to waste. At a question and answer session in...

The Legislative Council is set to discuss a controversial immigration bill, which lawyers, diplomats and right groups fear will give authorities unlimited powers to prevent residents and others from entering or leaving the city. The government has d...

The Audit Commission on Wednesday called on the Immigration Department to clear a backlog of bogus marriage cases in Hong Kong. A report by the public spending watchdog said as of December 2020, there were 2,237 outstanding suspected bogus marriage ...

Infectious disease expert Leung Chi-chiu warned on Wednesday that the government's "vaccine bubble" plans for restaurants and bars are not backed up by science, and can't be relied upon to prevent coronavirus transmissions. From Thursday, bars will ...

The government is trying to work out how Hong Kong can form a "travel bubble" with Macau, Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Wednesday, but there are "problems" to be ironed out. At a brief question and answer session in the pro-government Legislati...

A bus driver was on Wednesday sentenced to four years in jail over a traffic accident that killed six people in December 2019. Man Chi-kwong, 57, had earlier pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, after the KMB bus he drove crashed into a tree on th...

Hong Kong’s flag carrier, Cathay Pacific, is offering its local-based pilots and cabin crew voluntary redundancy, as part of efforts to further slash costs to stay afloat amid the ongoing pandemic. In an internal memo sent to staff on Wednesday, ...

Catering sector leaders say they have been blindsided by the requirement for staff to produce a doctor's note if they refuse their employers' request for them to get a Covid-19 jab. While the vaccines are not mandatory for anyone in Hong Kong, havin...

An epidemiologist says the government should relax quarantine requirements for people who've been vaccinated against Covid-19 as this would boost vaccination rates. Official figures show almost seven percent of the population is fully vaccinated with...

The government said on Tuesday that it has told organisers of the June 4 candlelight vigil that their application to use Victoria Park to mark the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre won't be processed "in view of the latest coronavirus situation". A Lei...

The Health Department said on Tuesday that two elderly people have died weeks after receiving Covid vaccines, but stressed that no evidence shows that the deaths were caused by the jabs. In a statement, it said a man, 76, who had taken both Sinovac ...

The president of the Hong Kong Federation of Restaurants and Related Trades, Simon Wong, says he believes big restaurants will benefit the most from the government's latest measures to ease social distancing rules for the catering sector, while small...

Diners will be asked to prove that they have been vaccinated when entering restaurants that have been allowed to stay open until 2am, the government said on Tuesday, as it announced the reopening of pubs and clubs as part of relaxed social distancing...

A legal challenge to the tabling of a bill in Legco that will set down Beijing’s changes to the SAR’s electoral system has been thrown out by a High Court judge, who held that it has little prospect of success as local courts have no jurisdiction...

Political commentator Chung Kim-wah said on Tuesday that it should not be a crime for people to call on the authorities to respect human rights, but unfortunately nobody knows where the red lines are these days. Chung's comment comes after the polic...

Yet another change to RTHK's television offerings is in the works, the latest schedules reveal – but rather than a programme being dropped this time, new talent has been signed up in the form of Chief Executive Carrie Lam. Lam will present her own...

Commerce secretary Edward Yau said on Tuesday that future travel bubbles will only be open to Hong Kong residents who have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19, or those who – due to their age or health reasons – are unable to get inoculated lo...