State media has renewed its attack on the largest teacher's union in Hong Kong – a day after it announced it was disbanding following accusations that it had “poisoned” children and incited them to violence. Xinhua News Agency said in a comme...

The police on Wednesday confirmed they had arrested a former employee of a school in Tsim Sha Tsui suspected of embezzling almost HK$600,000 in school funds. The force said it received a report from the school on July 15 about HK$599,000 being stole...

Health officials on Wednesday reported one new imported Covid-19 case. The 27-year-old woman flew in from Bangladesh, and authorities said she did not display any symptoms. There were no new local cases for the day. The Centre for Health Protec...

More public hospitals are pitching in to help assess if people with allergies can get Covid-19 vaccines, after a clinic run by the Hospital Authority's Hong Kong West Cluster was swamped with cases. The Vaccine Allergy Safety Clinic at Grantham Hosp...

A veteran pro-Beijing educator says he believes the demise of the Professional Teachers’ Union (PTU) will do more good than harm to the education sector. Wong Kwan-yu, head of the Federation of Education Workers, said the PTU had in the past done...

The chairman of the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA), Ronson Chan, said on Wednesday he's concerned that his group could be next after the pro-democracy Professional Teachers' Union decided to disband a day earlier. But both the HKJA and the...

Commerce chief Edward Yau on Wednesday said the mainland's anti-sanctions law, when adopted by the SAR, can help safeguard the interests of companies operating in Hong Kong. The secretary for commerce and economic development was speaking a day afte...

Some elderly people who lined up for a same-day ticket to get vaccinated said they were happy to be included in the expanded government walk-in programme. Queues were seen outside some centres on Wednesday morning as people who are 60 or older – i...

The chairman of the Sports Institute, Lam Tai-fai, has expressed reservations about expanding the elite training system to cover more sports, saying this could affect the quality of top-notch athletes. Following Hong Kong’s best ever performance ...

Members of the education profession expressed shock over the disbandment of the Professional Teachers' Union on Tuesday, with some saying they're worried no unions would voice out for them anymore. After the union's announcement, crowds flocked to t...

An ecology expert is urging people not to touch black sand on Lung Mei Beach in Tai Po, saying it could contain harmful bacteria. Billy Hau, a principal lecturer from Hong Kong University's school of biological sciences, made the call after environ...

The Professional Teachers’ Union (PTU) announced on Tuesday that it is disbanding, around a week after the government severed ties with the body as it came under attack by state media. In a letter to its members, the union described the decision ...

Health authorities reported four new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, all of which were imported infections. Three of the new patients received coronavirus vaccines in Hong Kong several months ago. One of them, a 54-year-old man who arrived from France o...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam says she’s quite certain that “external forces, foreign governments and western media” will use the introduction of the mainland’s anti-sanctions law in Hong Kong to weaken people’s confidence in the SAR. She sa...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam has announced a raft of measures to boost sports development, as she dismissed suggestions that the government’s support for local athletes is just a fleeting phase following Hong Kong's outstanding performance at the Tok...

The operator of one of Hong Kong’s Covid-19 vaccination centres on Tuesday revealed that only half the walk-in slots reserved for seniors without a booking have been taken up at his facility so far, while expressing hope that the expansion of the s...

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) said on Monday that students, staff and visitors who fail to comply with their Covid-19 vaccination and testing requirements will be barred from entering the campus from September 1. In an e...

The High Court on Monday rejected a man's appeal against his conviction for assaulting a police officer by sticking a poster of Chief Executive Carrie Lam's husband on his back. Ho Hiu-long, 26, was last month sentenced to three weeks in prison by K...

Ocean Park on Monday announced that its all-weather Water World will open its doors on September 21, and urged visitors to put on a mask whenever they leave the water and move around within the facility. "What we are asking guests to do is come wit...

Ten headteacher associations and school councils on Monday urged Legco to pass a bill that has been in the pipeline for two years to ban e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products. Government figures last year showed less than one percent of primary ...