Hong Kong health authorities on Wednesday reported three more imported Covid-19 cases, involving people who flew in from the United States and the United Kingdom. One of the patients is a 62-year-old man who worked at the Hong Kong Football Club in ...

The government says it is studying various ways to enhance its LeaveHomeSafe Covid app, including alternatives to users scanning QR codes to record their entry into various buildings. Deputy Government Chief Information Officer Tony Wong said on Wed...

The Hospital Authority on Wednesday announced that it performed the first paired kidney donation transplants in Hong Kong over the summer, with two patients with end-stage renal failure receiving kidneys from each other's families. At a press confer...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Wednesday that she hopes her planned Northern Metropolis will give residents more time to spend with their families and more quality sleep. In a speech to the Global Conference of the Alliance for Healthy Cities, L...

Former student activist Tony Chung on Wednesday pleaded guilty to the national security offence of secession and one count of money laundering, with the District Court ordering that another count of money laundering and a charge of conspiracy to publ...

The convenor of the Small and Medium Restaurant Federation Gordon Lam on Wednesday urged authorities not to punish eateries if customers are found to be using a fake LeaveHomeSafe app. Lam was speaking on a RTHK programme after Roundtable legislator...

Organisers of what’s being described as Hong Kong’s first trail discovery contest said on Tuesday they are hoping to make it safer and easier for people to walk between the city’s urban centres and nature trails. The City2Trail contest encoura...

A Tuen Mun magistrate on Tuesday halved an eight-month jail sentence handed down to a deliveryman for assaulting a police officer, after he made a mistake during sentencing. Magistrate Jeffrey Sze had convicted 21-year-old Zhao Hong-shing of assault...

Police say they are trying to find those behind a fake LeaveHomeSafe app, as they warned that anyone urging people to use it could find themselves in trouble. On Monday, police arrested five people on suspicion of trying to enter Immigration Tower u...

An inquest into the death of a man two days after he received a Sinovac coronavirus jab has heard that he suffered from chronic illnesses including hypertension and heart problems, but he had not been classified as unsuitable for vaccination. Timble...

The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups said on Tuesday that a survey it carried out suggests one in two secondary school pupils feel stressed out, and around the same proportion report having symptoms of depression. The federation said the finding...

The Consumer Council said on Tuesday that it has suspended the Consumer Rights Reporting Awards that it had co-organised with the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) and Hong Kong Press Photographers Association for two decades. In a statement...

Health officials on Tuesday reported two imported Covid-19 cases. The patients, who arrived from the Philippines and Turkey, had been double jabbed against the coronavirus. Meanwhile, the Centre for Health Protection ordered residents at Tower 1 of...

Roundtable legislator Michael Tien says he has learnt that authorities plan to make it compulsory for people to use the government's LeaveHomeSafe Covid app when going to any kind of restaurant, as part of efforts to persuade the mainland to scrap qu...

Large crowds of well-wishers gathered outside a funeral parlour in Hung Hom on Tuesday to pay their respects to late police chief inspector Lam Yuen-yee, who died at sea during an anti-smuggling operation. The service with full honours was attended...

The District Court on Tuesday heard that former student activist Tony Chung may plead guilty to secession and one count of money laundering. The former convenor of the now-disbanded pro-independence group Studentlocalism is accused of secession, co...

An NGO said on Tuesday that frontline officers at different government premises were apparently adopting very different standards over the mandatory use of the LeaveHomeSafe Covid-19 app, even though the government said things ran “rather smoothlyâ...

Legislator Frankie Yick on Tuesday urged the government to regulate fuel prices or subsidise the transport sector to help it deal with the rise in costs, saying fuel costs represent about 30-40 percent of operating costs. Data from the Consumer Cou...

The Department of Health on Monday warned the public not to take an oral product called Hemohim, saying it can cause liver damage. The department said the Hospital Authority had notified it on Friday of suspected poisoning cases, involving acute li...

Police on Monday said officers had arrested four people in Mong Kok over the weekend for alleged seditious intention over the display of a banner and other items. Officers did not specify what the items in question were but media reports say they in...