The government on Thursday evacuated a group of residents of a Wong Tai Sin public housing block and extended its lockdown after the emergence of more than 20 Covid cases there. Officials suspected the source of the outbreak at Cheung Bor House of C...

Chief executive hopefuls can officially submit their bids for two weeks starting February 20, five days later than originally planned. According to polling guidelines unveiled by the Electoral Affairs Commission on Thursday, the nomination period of...

The government has been advised to ban elderly residents of care homes who haven't been vaccinated from receiving visitors, taking part in group activities or watching television in common rooms. Grace Li, an executive committee member of the Elder...

A Kowloon Motor Bus Company bus plunged into a hole that opened up at a depot in Tseung Kwan O early on Thursday morning. The rear of the double decker plunged into the five-metre-deep hole, while the front was lifted above the ground. Another bus n...

An environmentalist said on Thursday that Hong Kong cannot continue to rely on its landfill sites to handle waste after the government confirmed it was studying the building of a second incinerator in the SAR. William Yu, CEO of the World Green Org...

A member of the Commission on Children said on Thursday that the government must investigate its own monitoring of care towards foster children, following a report into alleged abuse at a children's home in Prince Edward. Speaking on RTHK's Hong Kon...

The government said no Covid-19 cases were found after a lockdown operation at a residential block in Tung Chung wrapped up on Thursday morning. La Rossa A (Block 7) of Coastal Skyline Phase 3 was cordoned off at 8pm, after authorities detected some...

The government on Wednesday evening put a residential block in Tung Chung under overnight lockdown in light of Covid-19 infections linked to the building. La Rossa A (Block 7) of Coastal Skyline Phase 3 was cordoned off at 8pm and residents are req...

The head of Beijing’s liaison office, Luo Huining, said on Wednesday that leaders of Hong Kong cannot be complacent or dodge responsibility if they want to achieve good governance. In a Lunar New Year speech, Luo said Hong Kong has entered a new ...

Health officials say there’s a downward trend in the number of newly infected households at the Kwai Chung Estate block where an Omicron cluster started, as they express hope that the peak of the outbreak might be over. The Centre for Health Prot...

Preliminary findings from an investigation into alleged abuse at a foster home in Prince Edward suggested that management must have been aware of the problem but did little to stop it. The director of the Society for the Protection of Children and s...

Former lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting was on Wednesday jailed for four months for revealing that a senior police officer was being probed by the ICAC over the force’s handling of the 2019 Yuen Long attacks. The Eastern Magistrate's Court heard that Lam h...

Security Secretary Chris Tang on Wednesday said the Official Secrets Ordinance will be amended to better tackle espionage in Hong Kong. Speaking at a Legislative Council meeting, he said certain countries have been attempting to engage in activities...

Researchers from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University say they have found a substantial increase in the number of primary school pupils developing astigmatism after face-to-face classes were suspended for a considerable period of time last year. The...

An infectious diseases specialist on Wednesday urged the government to be more pragmatic and slightly relax its Covid restrictions, saying Hong Kong will have to endure the current wave of Omicron infections for months. Dr Wilson Lam said the ban o...

Health authorities say they found two preliminary positive cases after an overnight lockdown at numbers 21 to 35 Hung Kwong Street in To Kwa Wan, where they tested about 190 people. No new Covid-19 cases were found during an overnight lockdown at W...

The Social Welfare Department on Tuesday said it'd received a report from the Society for the Protection of Children over alleged child abuse cases at a foster home it runs. The department said it's studying the report which includes a review of the...

Authorities on Tuesday evening locked down two blocks in Sham Shui Po and To Kwa Wan, after residents there tested positive for Covid-19. Those who live in Wai Chun House on Un Chau Street, as well as number 21 to 35 of Hung Kwong Street are require...

Health authorities decided to evacuate more than a dozen households from a residential block in Tsuen Wan Garden on Tuesday evening after identifying possible vertical transmission of the Covid virus there. Two residents of Glory Court, who live in ...

Health authorities have reported 124 new Covid-19 cases, 93 of which are locally transmitted infections. It’s the third day running that Hong Kong has seen a daily caseload of over 100. Fifty-three of Tuesday's local cases are linked to previous ...