A government adviser on Covid-19 vaccines, Ben Cowling, said on Tuesday that he has reservations about letting young children take Sinovac jabs, hours after the chair of the Scientific Committee on Vaccine Preventable Diseases called for such a move....

Health officials on Tuesday reported six imported Covid-19 cases. The four women and two men, aged between 37 and 50, arrived from the United States, Britain, the Philippines and Tanzania. All of them were vaccinated earlier and tested positive fo...

Any organisation that doesn't abide by the law or obey a lawful demand for information by national security police can't claim to be a member of civil society, Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday. Lam was referring to June 4 vigil organisers,...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday that mainlanders and Macau residents will be able to enter Hong Kong without undergoing quarantine from September 15. At her weekly press briefing, Lam said a maximum of 2,000 non-Hong Kong residents from t...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam says the government will soon begin sending out invitations for district councillors to swear allegiance to the Basic Law and the SAR, and anyone who refuses to pledge their loyalty will lose their seats. Lam said on Tues...

The head of a government advisory body on Covid-19 vaccines has proposed allowing children as young as six to take Sinovac jabs. Lau Yu-lung said on Tuesday that this would be among ideas for discussion at a meeting of the Scientific Committee on V...

Health authorities on Tuesday morning completed their compulsory Covid testing exercise at a residential block in Lohas Park in Tseung Kwan O. In a statement, the government said, as of 1 am, around 1,340 residents had been tested and no confirmed ca...

The Security Bureau on Monday accused Next Digital – the parent company of the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper – of making “misleading remarks” in a company announcement. In a stock exchange filing on Sunday, Next Digital said the four me...

Beijing said a special economic zone in Shenzhen, created to boost cooperation with Hong Kong, will see its size increase severalfolds as part of a plan to foster closer business and technological ties between the two places. In an announcement, the...

Health authorities sealed off a block in Lohas Park in Tseung Kwan O and ordered its residents to undergo compulsory coronavirus tests on Monday evening, after a woman living there gave a preliminary positive sample for the L452R mutant strain. The...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam has thanked Shenzhen authorities for helping Hong Kong combat the Covid-19 pandemic, saying officials there have done a lot to help SAR residents. Speaking at the ‘High-level Meeting cum Hong Kong/Shenzhen Co-operation M...

DAB lawmaker Elizabeth Quat said on Monday that she had received more than 250 complaints about the sudden closure of two beauty salons and a massage parlour, adding she believed the victims had lost HK$10 million between them. The three companies ...

Elderly people say they've had a much smoother time resubmitting their applications for the government's consumption vouchers after three additional centres came into operation on Monday. There were chaotic scenes in Mong Kok last week as scores of...

University of Hong Kong researchers say they've found that the territory's low smoking rate is the most important reason why Hongkongers typically live longer than people from other high-income places. Since 2013, Hong Kong has had the longest life ...

A fund that raises money to help people arrested during the 2019 social unrest on Monday said it's immediately halting the collection of donations. The 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund said it made the decision because the Alliance for True Democracy, t...

The Centre for Health Protection on Monday reported two new imported Covid-19 cases. One of the patients was a 20-year-old man who flew in from the US, while the other was a 23-year-old woman who arrived from Indonesia. The woman was asymptomatic,...

Police on Monday said they had arrested more than 2,300 people in an annual anti-triad joint operation with their Macau and Guangdong counterparts. During the campaign, code-named "Thunderbolt 21," officers raided about 2,000 venues, including illeg...

More than 100 travel agencies and coach operators on Monday warned that the industry won't survive much longer without further support from the authorities. In an open letter to Chief Executive Carrie Lam, they asked for an extension to a loan guara...

Government pandemic adviser David Hui said on Monday that it appears the Mu variant is less infectious than Delta – but he stressed there's not enough data to draw a conclusion at this stage. The World Health Organisation recently listed the Mu C...

Defunct newspaper Apple Daily's parent company announced on Sunday that all of its directors had resigned. In a stock exchange filing, Next Digital said the four members of its board of directors, including chairman Ip Yut Kin, were stepping down t...