Innovation and technology secretary Alfred Sit said the government had submitted a number of proposals to mainland authorities on how a Hong Kong health code should work, in order for people to be able to travel quarantine-free to the mainland. He ...

Health officials on Sunday reported three new Covid-19 infections, all of them were imported. Two of the patients, aged 47 and 63, flew in from the Philippines via flight CX906. They tested positive during their quarantine period. The two male have...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan says Hong Kong needs to work with "brother cities" in the Greater Bay Area to make it a "world-class city cluster", and to ensure the SAR's economy is sustainably developed. Writing on his blog on Sunday, the minister ...

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority said on Sunday that its Faster Payment System (FPS) has been down after it encountered “unforeseen circumstances” during a planned maintenance. The authority said the system maintenance period was originally sch...

The Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, Christopher Hui, says there will be enough funds to develop a metropolis in northern New Territories, as long as the government can find the most efficient plan to utilise both public money and p...

Hong Kong's sole delegate to the nation's top legislative body, Tam Yiu-chung, says he has been barred from attending the committee's meeting in Beijing next week – due to the recent discovery of an untraceable Covid-19 case in Hong Kong. In a vi...

Health officials on Saturday reported six imported Covid infections, including a Russian consulate worker who had been exempted from hotel quarantine and tested preliminary positive earlier. The fully-vaccinated 55-year-old was self-isolating at his...

A 31-year-old man appeared before Kwun Tong Court on Saturday to face a charge of murdering a taxi driver in Sai Ying Pun. The prosecution requested psychological reports on the accused, Matthew Choi, before proceeding with the case. Magistrate May...

The District Court on Saturday sentenced seven activists to between six and twelve months behind bars for their roles in a protest on July 1 last year. The seven are former lawmakers Wu Chi-wai, Leung Kwok-hung and Chu Hoi-dick, former district coun...

Secretary for the Civil Service Patrick Nip admitted on Saturday that a new test on the national security law for would-be government workers will reduce the number of people seeking such roles, but he said he was confident the administration would ...

The government has ended its lockdown of a residential building in Sai Wan Ho, with no new cases of Covid-19 being being found. Around 830 people were tested. Compulsory testing was ordered after a resident, who had been exempted from hotel quaranti...

The government on Friday ordered an overnight lockdown at a building in Sai Wan Ho after a resident who was exempted from hotel quarantine tested preliminary positive for Covid-19. The resident, 55, works for the Russian consulate and was allowed to...

Readers took a last opportunity to browse the shelves of Bleak House Books before one of the city's few independent English-language bookshops closed its doors on Friday. The bookstore in San Po Kong that sells both new and old books was closing aft...

A scientist who told a court he tried to help a protester shot and injured by the police in 2019 has been jailed for a year. Yau Wang-tat had pleaded guilty to unlawful assembly, having initially been charged with the more serious offence of rioting...

Customs officials said on Friday that they had seized more than 3,000 kilogrammes of Australian lobster that they believed was to be smuggled to the mainland by sea. Thirteen people were arrested, some on suspicion of making inadequate import declar...

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...