Labour and Welfare Secretary Law Chi-kwong said the government may make available more quarantine facilities for newly arrived foreign domestic helpers when the time is ripe. Employers and agencies have complained that they've been struggling to fin...

The Department of Health on Friday banned all direct flights from Vancouver operated by Air Canada between October 16 and 29. The authority said the move was taken because a passenger tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday, and another passenger ...

Security Secretary Chris Tang said on Friday that the government will need to consult the public well on planned national security legislation under Article 23 of the Basic Law, and watch out for people "demonising" the law. Tang said his bureau is ...

Hospital Authority chief executive Tony Ko has played down the impact of subsidence that has forced the suspension of construction work at the site of the future acute hospital in Kai Tak, blaming bad weather for what he says is a common phenomenon. ...

Education professionals have urged the government to take a cautious approach and assess the situation on the ground before moving to close or relocate schools amid an expected decrease in the number of pupils. In a paper submitted to the Legislativ...

Education Secretary Kevin Yeung says teachers may in future have to take a test on the Basic Law and the national security law before they could take up a job. Speaking on an RTHK programme on Friday, Yeung said teachers at government schools alread...

The Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood on Thursday said it will start accepting applications from members to run for December’s Legislative Council elections. The association said those who want to participate in the race ...

Labour and Welfare Secretary Law Chi-kwong on Thursday said it would be absurd to force retirees to transfer their savings under the mandatory provident fund into an annuity plan, stressing that people will be given a choice. The official had first ...

Hong Kong health authorities reported one imported Covid infection on Thursday, involving a 30-year-old woman who had already completed 21 days of quarantine. The woman, who works as a domestic helper, flew in from Indonesia on September 17 aboard f...

Development Secretary Michael Wong on Thursday said it was unrealistic to presume the city’s green belts and country parks, which make up more than half of the land in Hong Kong, will remain untouched as authorities seek to boost land supply. Plan...

The Observatory on Thursday cancelled all typhoon signals as tropical cyclone Kompasu passed over Hainan island and headed towards the coast of Vietnam. All signals came down at 6.20 am. The number 1 signal had replaced the number 3 two hours earli...

The Observatory issued the Standby Signal Number 1 at 4.40am on Thursday to replace the Strong Wing Signal Number 3. The weather bureau dropped signal eight at 4.40pm yesterday after Kompasu made landfall over Hainan. The higher signal had been u...

Police on Thursday said they arrested a man over the death of a taxi driver in Sai Ying Pun, a day after they initiated a manhunt for the killer. Hong Kong Island Regional Crime Unit Chief Inspector, Tse Tsz-kwan, said officers went to Lamma Island ...

The pastor helping murder suspect Chan Tong-kai said on Wednesday that he had left a police safe house since June. Responding to media enquiries, Reverend Peter Koon didn’t say where Chan lives now, but described it as a place where people won't e...

While Typhoon Kompasu disrupted life in Hong Kong on Wednesday, some people still went about their business as usual. The Strong Wind Signal No. 3 took effect at 4:40pm, replacing the No. 8 signal that had been in force for almost 24 hours as the st...

The liquidator of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, Richard Tsoi, said he has told the University of Hong Kong to contact the creator of "Pillar of Shame" over its plan to remove the statute from the campus...

The government says newly recruited civil servants will in future have to take a test on the national security law. In papers submitted to the legislature, the Civil Service Bureau says the tests, in addition to those already given on the Basic Law,...

The Centre for Health Protection on Wednesday reported three imported Covid-19 infections. The two women and a man, aged between 28 and 34, arrived from Indonesia, the Philippines and Pakistan. All patients were vaccinated against the coronavirus ...

The observatory says it will consider lowering the number eight typhoon signal between 4pm and 7pm on Wednesday, as Kompasu moves away from Hong Kong. At 2pm, the typhoon was centred about 490 kilometres southwest of Hong Kong and was forecast to m...

The police say a new weapon they are introducing in the wake of the social unrest of 2019 will help officers fire pepper spray at suspects more accurately. The pistol-like launcher can fire four rounds of pepper solution from up to seven metres away...