A team of medical experts from the mainland on Sunday continued their inspection of anti-epidemic work in Hong Kong, visiting the airport, North Lantau Hospital and the border control point of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge. The delegation arriv...

The University of Hong Kong's dean of of medicine, Gabriel Leung, has resigned. He will join the Hong Kong Jockey Club as its executive director for charities and community, in July 2022. In an email to HKU staff and students, the university's pres...

Health authorities on Sunday reported two new imported Covid-19 infections. The patients were a 35-year-old woman who arrived from the Philippines on November 17 and a 75-year-old man who flew into the SAR from the United Kingdom on November 19. Ne...

Two police officers have been arrested on suspicion of using a false instrument to obtain information, RTHK understands. The sergeant and an officer were still in detention on Sunday following their arrest on Saturday night. Sources said the inform...

The government has stressed that it doesn't plan to kill all of Hong Kong's wild boars, saying only those who turn up at "black spots" and pose a threat to the public will be targeted. Animal welfare groups have been urging the administration to ab...

Hong Kong's member of the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC), Tam Yiu-chung, on Sunday urged the government to quickly implement suggestions made by a team of mainland experts on epidemics, to facilitate the reopening of the border...

Labour and Welfare Secretary Law Chi-kwong said on Sunday that the government might amend the law and make it a requirement for members of the Social Workers Registration Board to pledge allegiance to the SAR. The body is tasked with handling the r...

The Hong Kong Observatory is warning that temperatures are set to tumble on Monday and people will need to take care to keep warm. Temperatures of around 15 degrees are forecast for urban areas by nighttime, while it will be a couple of degrees col...

A team of mainland experts on epidemics arrived in Hong Kong on Saturday for a four-day visit to study the SAR's measures to tackle the pandemic. The visit was organised by the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council and the Nationa...

Police on Saturday said they had arrested 27 people on suspicion of cheating the government out of grants and services. Officers say the arrestees are among 48 Hong Kong residents who allegedly filed fake applications for the HK$5,000 consumption v...

Health authorities on Saturday released more than 100 aircrew from mandatory quarantine, after determining that they had had no contact with three former Cathay Pacific cargo pilots who returned from Germany infected with Covid-19. In a statement, ...

Police on Friday night raided two barbecue sites at Kau Wah Keng in Mei Foo together with officers from the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department. Seventeen owners and staff of the barbecue sites were arrested on suspicion of fraud and possessi...

Health officials reported three new imported Covid-19 cases on Saturday, all of which involved mutant virus strains. One of the patients is a 31-year-old domestic helper from the Philippines, whose infection triggered the overnight lockdown of a bu...

Chief Secretary John Lee on Saturday said the revamped electoral system has attracted many new faces and candidates from across the political spectrum to run for December’s Legislative Council elections, dismissing concerns that the future Legco wi...

Sports Commissioner Yeung Tak-keung said on Saturday that people should not bring political messages into sports events, but added that the definition of political messages depends on the context. Yeung made the comment on an RTHK programme after o...

Former Secretary for Financial Services, Chan Ka-keung, has expressed confidence that Hong Kong's status as an international financial centre will not be harmed by the city's tight Covid-19 policies. The international business community has been as...

The government has approved the use of the Sinovac vaccine for children as young as three years old, but agreed with its advisers that adolescents aged 12 to 17 will first be allowed to get the jab. A government statement said the health secretary c...

Authorities found no positive Covid-19 cases after testing about 130 residents of a building in Happy Valley. Way Man Court on 50-52 Village Road was on Friday evening locked down after a foreign domestic helper who was recently released from quaran...

Authorities placed a building in Happy Valley into lockdown on Friday evening after a foreign domestic helper who was recently released from quarantine tested preliminary positive for Covid-19. Health officials said the 31-year-old woman from the Ph...

Counter-terrorism authorities on Friday held a drill at the West Kowloon high speed rail terminus to simulate various terrorist attacks, including one that involved biochemical weapons. The drill, code-named "Tigerpace", involved about 300 officers ...