Adolescents aged 12 to 17 will be able to choose the Sinovac vaccine for their Covid-19 jab from December 2, officials announced on Monday. Those in this age group can already receive the BioNTech vaccine, while Sinovac is currently only available t...

One man died and two others were injured on Monday after a fire broke out at a cold storage unit in Yau Tong. The fire started at around 1pm at the Yue Xiu Cold Storage and Warehousing building in Tung Yuen Street. Two people were unconscious when ...

More hotel rooms are being made available for low-income couples waiting for public flats, as part of the government's initiative to provide 20,000 transitional housing units in the coming few years. The Concordia project run by the Lutheran Church ...

Health authorities on Monday reported three new imported Covid-19 cases, with all of the patients fully vaccinated. The new patients include two foreign domestic helpers: one arrived from Indonesia on Saturday, and the other, from the Philippines, ...

A man has been jailed for two years and four months for rioting after he threw a plastic water bottle in the direction of the police during protests in 2019 that the judge described as an "unequal civil war". The District Court had heard how Lai Chu...

Parents found out on Monday whether their child's application for a discretionary place under the Primary One Admission System was successful or not. The Education Bureau said nearly half of more than 48,000 children applying for discretionary plac...

A corporate lawyer has warned that last week’s strike by Foodpanda delivery workers has exposed a lack of labour protections for gig economy workers in Hong Kong. Daniel Tang, a partner at the law firm Withers, said delivery staff for the app are ...

A team of medical experts from the mainland inspected a quarantine hotel in Wan Chai on Monday as they continued their visit to Hong Kong to learn more about the city's anti-epidemic work. Accompanied by health officials, they were briefed about th...

Around 350 people from the veterinary sector have signed a petition urging the government to pull a new capture-and-kill strategy for wild boars. Those who signed include practising vets, nurses and veterinary students. One of the students who la...

Health officials said on Monday that no confirmed Covid-19 cases were found after a lockdown in Discovery Bay. It said about 270 residents of Jovial Court in Peninsula Village had been tested as of midnight. The lockdown was triggered on Sunday, af...

Executive councillor Lam Ching-choi says officials are making efforts to explain to mainland medical experts that even though some of Hong Kong's anti-epidemic measures are different to those across the border, this doesn't mean they're not effective...

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 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 preside...

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...

Police on Sunday said two male colleagues have been arrested on suspicion of using a false instrument to obtain information. They said the information allegedly obtained was not relevant to the pair's duties. They said the pair - aged 40 and 34 - ...

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...