The government’s been urged to facilitate the Gay Games (GGHK), to be held in Hong Kong next year, after it's said that organisers are finding it difficult to book venues. New People’s Party chairwoman Regina Ip made the call on Wednesday, sayin...

The Society for Community Organisation on Wednesday said it hopes new research showing that relatively few new arrivals from the mainland rely on government benefits will change people's perception of migrants. Baptist University economists looked a...

Health authorities on Wednesday reported four new imported Covid-19 cases. One of the them – a 32-year-old man from Lebanon who was undergoing quarantine at a hotel in Sai Ying Pun – started displaying symptoms on Sunday. The other three import...

Secretary for Justice Teresa Cheng on Wednesday dismissed concerns that her proposal to allow legal officers in her department to attain the title of senior counsel will blur the distinction between solicitors and barristers – adding that some of h...

The International Monetary Fund said Hong Kong's financial system remains resilient to financial shocks despite the challenges that the city had faced over the past two years. In its latest financial system stability assessment published on Wednesd...

The Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, Christopher Hui, on Wednesday played down concerns that the government is weakening Hong Kong’s professional accounting body by reassigning many of its regulatory powers. The Hong Kong Institu...

Former pro-Beijing lawmaker Philip Wong has died at the age of 82. It is understood that he was suffering from brain cancer, and had been in a coma in a hospital in the United States over the past two months. Born in Fujian in 1938, Wong was a ve...

Billionaire businessman Ronnie Chan said on Wednesday that he hopes all schools in Hong Kong will primarily use Mandarin for teaching, adding that the SAR’s next generation should dream the "Chinese Dream" in the language. Speaking at a forum to d...

A pro-democracy district councillor on Wednesday demanded that authorities explain why they removed a banner he put up in his district last week that had asked people to “remember June 4” without notifying him first. Tsuen Wan district councillo...

The Chinese Civil Servants' Association has welcomed a proposal to freeze the salaries of government staff for a second consecutive year, after an annual pay survey suggested cutting government salaries. Speaking on RTHK's Hong Kong today programme...

A woman and a boy were remanded in custody on Tuesday after appearing in West Kowloon Court accused of handling out leaflets promoting Hong Kong independence. Chloe Cho, a 45-year-old clerk, and student Wong Chun-wai, 17, are charged with conspiring...

Lawyers representing the Communications Authority said on Tuesday that a warning the body issued to RTHK over an episode of its now-suspended Headliner show did not undermine freedom of speech. Senior counsel Abraham Chan told the High Court during ...

Hong Kong paediatricians have sought to quell the misconception that children can only have mild symptoms if they contract Covid-19, appealing to parents to let their kids get vaccinated when the age limit for jabs is lowered from 16 to 12. Public h...

Health authorities on Tuesday reported three new imported Covid-19 cases, including two arrivals from Colombia who were detected with the more infectious N501Y mutation. One of the arrivals from Colombia – a 19-year-old man – started displaying ...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday that the government will take appropriate action to monitor the behaviour of the current crop of district councillors, saying they have been a major headache for the government because of their “unpreceden...

The government on Tuesday proposed freezing the salaries of more than 170,000 civil servants for a second year. The Executive Council made the suggestion after taking into account a number of factors such as the pay trend survey, the economic situa...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Tuesday welcomed Beijing's plan to introduce a law countering foreign sanctions, saying China is only engaging in "tit for tat". At her media briefing before this week's Executive Council meeting, Lam was asked about re...

Universities in Hong Kong need to beware of "external forces with ulterior motives", Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday, warning that students could be indoctrinated into taking part in illegal activities. Ahead of her weekly Executive Counc...

Hong Kong Airlines is set to announce another round of mass layoffs as the airline industry continues to bear the brunt of the Covid-19 pandemic. The cash-strapped carrier slashed around 650 jobs last year, while remaining staff had been asked to t...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Tuesday said the only way to guard against any missed imported Covid-19 cases is to have the community vaccinated against the disease, but she doesn't think there is a "big loophole" in the current quarantine arrangement...