Health authorities on Tuesday reported six new imported Covid-19 cases. Four of the patients arrived from Pakistan, one from the United States and one from the United Kingdom. The infected traveller from the UK is a 27-year-old woman who lives in W...

Former student activist Tony Chung was on Tuesday jailed for three years and seven months for secession and money laundering. He had earlier pleaded guilty to the charges under the national security law. The District Court heard how Chung, 20, use...

The Education Bureau (EDB) announced on Tuesday that it is merging two secondary schools in light of what it described as a projected structural decline in the secondary school population. Kowloon Technical School will merge with Lung Cheung Govern...

A medical expert advising the government on the city’s coronavirus vaccination programme on Tuesday urged people who are eligible for a booster to get the jab, warning that Hong Kong might see another wave of infections after the resumption of quar...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Tuesday said polling stations will be set up at several border control points that are currently closed, to help Hong Kong residents living on the mainland cast their ballots in Legco elections next month. But Lam told ...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam says Hong Kong officials will meet mainland counterparts in Shenzhen on Thursday to discuss anti-epidemic work in the SAR in preparation for quarantine-free travel across the border. Speaking to reporters ahead of the Exe...

A representative of the catering sector says most restaurants agree that it should be made mandatory for customers to use the LeaveHomeSafe app if that means social-distancing rules could be relaxed further. Most restaurants are now allowed to let ...

Police are investigating a fatal traffic accident in Tseung Kwan O on Monday afternoon in which a 71-year-old woman died. At about 6 pm, a light goods vehicle driven by a 46-year-old man was travelling along Po Lam Road North towards Lohas Park when...

One of the government's advisers on Covid-19, microbiologist Yuen Kwok-yung, has warned against the use of valve masks, after a patient wearing one is suspected to have passed on the virus to another man living next door to him at a quarantine hotel....

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 building under demolition in Yau Tong. The fire started at around 1pm at the Yue Xiu Cold Storage and Warehousing building in Tung Yuen Street. Firefighters...

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...