Sports Commissioner Yeung Tak-keung said Hong Kong people can "rest assured" that they will be able to watch next year's Asian Games in Hangzhou on television. In an athletes’ sharing session organised by Hong Kong News-Expo on Sunday, Yeung said ...

The government announced on Sunday that frontline staff of the Kwai Tsing Container Terminals and the ship services sector will be required to get tested for Covid-19 more frequently. From Monday, frontline terminal employees will be tested every th...

Lau Siu-kai, a vice-president of the Chinese Association of Hong Kong and Macau Studies, said on Sunday all politicians would have to face competition to stay in office in future. Speaking on a TV programme, Lau said he believes many more patriots w...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan said Hong Kong people must study the historic resolution adopted at the recent Communist Party plenum, saying it is vital to the country and Hong Kong's future. Writing on his blog, he said a "strong leadership core" ha...

The Secretary for Labour and Welfare, Law Chi-kwong, said on Sunday that a new quarantine hotel for foreign domestic helpers will be made available from next month. Writing on his blog, Law said from December 8, the Courtyard by Marriott in Sha Tin ...

The government says the compulsory testing exercise at Hampton Place in Tai Kok Tsui was completed at 7 am on Sunday with health officials reporting no Covid cases after testing around 1,400 residents. Towers 1, 2 and 3 were sealed off on Saturday ...

The Chief Executive, Carrie Lam, on Saturday hailed the landmark resolution of the sixth plenary session of the Communist Party's central committee, and stressed the importance of the central government's support for the SAR in recent years. In a s...

Cathay Pacific said on Saturday that it plans to suspend Frankfurt layovers for cargo crews and tightening checks on overseas stations after a pilot who worked on a Frankfurt cargo flight tested preliminary positive for Covid. The positive test resu...

Health officials on Saturday ordered compulsory Covid tests for residents of Towers 1, 2 and 3 of Hampton Place in Tai Kok Tsui, and predicted that the testing would be finished by 8am on Sunday. In a statement, a government spokesman said a prelimi...

A concern group has on Saturday urged the government to reverse a decision to capture wild boars in urban areas for humane dispatch. On Friday night, the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department said the measure aims to reduce the number ...

The Centre for Health Protection reported two new imported coronavirus cases on Saturday. Both patients, a 49-year-old woman and a 65-year-old woman, have received two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine. The 49-year-old is infected with the mutant L452R s...

The Economist magazine on Friday said authorities in Hong Kong have refused to renew the employment visa of its China correspondent, Wong Sue-lin. "We regret their decision, which was given without explanation," the Economist's editor-in-chief Zanny...

The District Court on Saturday found 20 people guilty of rioting during a 2019 protest in Sheung Wan, while three others were acquitted as the judge said he could not be certain they personally took part in the riot. Judge Johnny Chan ruled that a r...

The Commissioner of Customs and Excise Louise Ho on Saturday dismissed censorship claims after she said her department would be on alert for people using everyday items to spread messages that could endanger national security. Speaking on a radio s...

Health Secretary Sophia Chan on Saturday said introducing a vaccine passport is something Hong Kong could do after a certain proportion of the population has been inoculated against Covid-19. She was commenting on the idea after it was proposed by p...

Over 50 people who have quarantined or are currently in isolation at a Tung Chung hotel have to be sent into the government’s quarantine camps, after authorities suspect that a patient who lived there had spread the coronavirus to another man in th...

The Danish sculptor of a statue that commemorates those who died on June 4, 1989 in Beijing, has asked SAR authorities for immunity from the national security law so that he can come and take it back to Denmark. The University of Hong Kong (HKU) ha...

The government said on Friday it would tighten infection-control measures for flight crew members, after two of them were among the city's recent imported Covid-19 patients. Under the changes, all local air crew staff are required to get their thir...

The 2021 Legislative Council elections will have as many as 154 candidates vying for 90 seats in December's polls – the first to be held following an electoral overhaul. The 154 nominations submitted by the end of the nomination period on Friday ...

An inquest jury on Friday unanimously returned an open verdict on the death of a man two days after he received a coronavirus jab. Timble Li, 63, got the Sinovac vaccine at a community centre at Kwun Chung Sports Centre on February 26 - the day Hong...