Security Secretary Chris Tang says officials aim to start consultation and legislative work on new national security legislation, under Article 23 of the Basic Law, in the next Legco term. The security chief made the remarks in a blog post supporti...

The student union of the Chinese University (CUSU) announced its disbandment on Thursday. In February, the university cut ties with the student group, asking it to register as an independent society or company to assume its own legal responsibility....

Health authorities on Thursday recorded eight new imported Covid cases, involving people who flew in from Pakistan, Nepal and the Philippines. Officials said Nepal Airlines flights from Kathmandu were temporarily banned from Thursday, after one of i...

Customs officers said on Thursday that an anti-smuggling operation in Lung Kwu Tan last month netted the most valuable haul of goods ever found in Hong Kong, with the find including luxury foodstuffs, handbags and endangered plants Officials said c...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Thursday it'll be "a rather lengthy process" for quarantine-free travel to happen between the SAR and the mainland. At a Legislative Council question-and-answer session on the policy address, she said the issue is ...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Thursday that the government will issue bonds, especially green bonds, to raise funds for her Northern Metropolis project. A price tag hasn't been revealed for the plan to develop the northern New Territories into...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Thursday that changes to the Legislative Council under new electoral arrangements mean now is the right time to put forward her plan to develop the northern part of Hong Kong into a new metropolis. Appearing on a r...

A political commentator says the proposed Northern Metropolis announced by Chief Executive Carrie Lam in Wednesday's Policy Address is an aggressive project that could take up to twenty years to come to fruition. Lam's vision is for a 300 square kil...

The government on Wednesday revealed plans to suspend district councils' power to examine funding requests for community activities and minor works projects, after some local councils were paralysed by mass resignations or the disqualifications of th...

Legislators hailed Chief Executive Carrie Lam's policy address on Wednesday, with New People's Party chairwoman Regina Ip describing it as far-sighted and high quality. Ip said the proposal to create a Northern Metropolis is a "grand vision" which w...

The Democratic Party said on Wednesday that Chief Executive Carrie Lam had failed to deal with Hong Kong's problems in Wednesday's policy address, and it appeared to be aimed solely at pleasing Beijing. The party's chairman, Lo Kin-hei, said a large...

Hong Kong recorded six new imported Covid-19 cases on Wednesday. Health officials said they were particularly concerned about one case, involving a 43-year-old domestic helper who arrived from Indonesia at the beginning of last month. The woman re...

This year's policy address includes a boost for many recipients of the government's Old Age Living Allowance (OALA), with those currently missing out on a higher rate to get an extra HK$1,000 a month from the second half of next year. Chief Executiv...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Wednesday proposed building a new cross-border rail to Shenzhen in her policy address and extending the Northern Link that's under planning to cover more areas in the New Territories. Lam said railways will be backbone ...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Wednesday that the government will adopt various measures to free up more land for development, such as unlocking ancestral sites in the New Territories and making it easier to trigger the redevelopment of old build...

The chief executive said on Wednesday there's still a lot of work to be done to protect national security, but Carrie Lam didn't offer concrete timetables as to when local laws on national security and cyber security, including a ban on fake news, wo...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Wednesday set out her ideas on how the government could be restructured in order to complement policy focuses and "meet social expectations". One of the key suggestions made in her policy address was setting up a cultur...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam has proposed developing a metropolis in northern New Territories in her policy address on Wednesday to provide more land for housing and business development. With an area of some 300 square kilometres, the proposed Northe...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam delivered the fifth policy address of her term on Wednesday, with the focus on housing and economic development. Lam began by explaining how Hong Kong has entered "a new era", saying this is thanks to the introduction of t...

Measures on housing and land are expected to feature prominently in the Chief Executive Carrie Lam's fifth Policy Address. Lam's blueprint later this morning could include ways to free up more land in the New Territories. Mainland officials have spo...