Some smartphone retailers said on Monday they had sold out of cheaper models as customers rushed to buy mobiles to comply with a new rule making use of the LeaveHomeSafe app compulsory at government buildings. A shopkeeper surnamed Chan in Mong Kok'...

Health officials on Monday reported one new imported Covid-19 case. The patient is a 56-year-old airline worker who recently flew in from Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, the Centre for Health Protection reminded people who had stayed at Block H2 of Gracef...

Two people who staged a fake jewellery heist were on Monday jailed for conspiring to defraud an insurer out of about HK$2.5 million. The District Court heard that jewellery shop owner Leung Yim-kwan, 41, recruited Tang Ka-kui, 31, to stage the fake...

Police said five people were arrested on Monday morning for allegedly flouting a new rule that requires the mandatory use of the LeaveHomeSafe Covid-19 app when entering government premises. The five were suspected of using a fake app at Immigratio...

Five people pleaded guilty on Monday to organising, joining, or inciting others to join a banned June 4 vigil in Victoria Park last year, while three other defendants denied the charges. Just before their trial was to begin at the District Court, Le...

Civil Service Secretary Patrick Nip said on Monday that the government hopes to begin offering Covid-19 booster shots to vulnerable groups in about two weeks’ time. Nip’s remarks came a few days after an expert panel advising the government rec...

Police say two people have died in an accident involving three private cars on Bride's Pool Road in Tai Po at about 10.15 pm on Sunday. A motorcyclist also crashed nearby, and it is not yet known whether this is linked to the car accident. The two d...

A 57-year-old man died on Sunday, after falling from his bicycle and hitting his head. He had been riding the bicycle along a cycling track on Ting Kok Road towards Tai Po. When he was near 68 Ting Kok Road, he reportedly lost control and fell to th...

A woman has died after being knocked over by a private car, while crossing Shek O Road in Chai Wan. Police say the 51-year-old suffered serious head injuries in the incident, which happened near To Tei Wan at about 1.30pm on Sunday. She was rushed ...

A coach driver has been arrested for dangerous driving, causing death, after a 60-year-old man was knocked off his bicycle by a coach and died. The incident happened at about 11.30 am on Sunday near Yam O Wan on the North Lantau highway. The man ...

Health officials on Sunday ordered all residents of a building in Tsz Wan Shan to take a Covid-19 test, after an 18-year-old resident tested positive on arrival in Singapore on October 24. Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection, under the Departm...

Partygoers flocked to bars and clubs in Lan Kwai Fong over the weekend, donning their spookiest costumes to mark Halloween. Social distancing measures were still in effect though, and crowds had to adhere to strict requirements to mask up and sign i...

Health authorities recorded one imported Covid-19 case on Sunday, involving a woman who had flown into Hong Kong from the United Kingdom. The 37-year-old tested positive for Covid upon her arrival at the airport on October 29. Health officials say s...

Police said on Sunday they had arrested two men on suspicion of stealing the deed to an elderly woman's flat in Tai Kok Tsui and using it as collateral for a HK$6 million loan. The force said that one of the suspects, aged 59, recently became friend...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan said on Sunday that he expected positive news when advance estimates for third-quarter GDP are released on Monday, albeit with headline growth rates likely to be lower than in the first quarter. Writing on his official ...

The Hong Kong Council of Social Service on Sunday urged officials to take a lenient approach and be empathetic when the use of the ‘LeaveHomeSafe’ app at government premises becomes mandatory. The government said the requirement, which takes eff...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Saturday said one reason the government brought in new legislation, that allows eligible non-locally trained doctors to practise here, is that it wanted to slash the long waiting times faced by special needs children. T...

The ICAC on Saturday warned against calls for people to cast blank ballots, as the nomination period for the December Legco election began. The anti-graft commission said it had noticed such appeals online. It said anyone who incites another not to ...

Health authorities on Saturday reported three imported Covid-19 cases. They include a 35-year-old foreign domestic helper, who tested positive for the virus when she arrived at the airport from the Philippines on Thursday; a 23-year-old foreign dome...

The director of legal aid, Thomas Kwong, on Saturday brushed aside concerns over the government's proposal to reform the legal aid system, stressing that it would not violate the Basic Law or affect aid recipients' interests. Under the proposal, le...