Aspiring homeowners have rushed to submit last-minute applications for subsidised Home Ownership Scheme flats, with Thursday the deadline for the latest batch of units up for grabs. Nearly nine thousand flats are up for sale at seven projects in Nor...

The government’s been urged to provide rent and wage subsidies specially for social enterprises that employ the disabled and other disadvantaged groups so they could stay afloat amid this wave of Covid-19 outbreak. A group representing such enter...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Thursday that she had asked the central government to send a delegation of Chinese medicine experts to Hong Kong to help fight the Covid-19 outbreak. She told a daily press briefing that Hong Kong should learn fr...

The government on Thursday said almost 100,000 people have signed up for its unemployment subsidy, just one day after applications opened. Speaking on a radio show, Doris Ho from the Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office said the figure shows...

Education Secretary Kevin Yeung said on Thursday that officials are trying to work out a set of special arrangements for students who are close contacts of Covid patients, so that they can take next month's Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) exams ...

A paediatrician warned on Thursday that a government target of having 90 percent of pupils double-jabbed before a school can resume full-day classes would be challenging, given the slow progress in inoculating children against Covid-19 so far. Speak...

The government on Wednesday issued a compulsory testing notice for 10 locations across the territory. People who stayed at these places for more than two hours from March 10 to 23 are required to undergo a Covid-19 nucleic acid test by Friday. The ...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan said the government plans to hold an international financial forum during the Hong Kong Rugby Sevens tournament in November. Speaking on the RTHK programme Overview Policy, he said he expects to invite up to 200 top ex...

Educators on Wednesday expressed reservations about resuming full-day, in-person classes after the Easter break, due to Hong Kong's Covid-19 situation. Dion Chen, a high school principal and chairman of the Direct Subsidy Scheme Schools Council, sai...

Authorities on Wednesday sealed off a number of buildings in Kwun Tong, Wong Tai Sin and Tin Shui Wai for overnight testing, after sewage samples from the blocks tested positive for Covid-19. Officials said they suspect there are asymptomatic patie...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Wednesday that work is underway to convert some hotels currently used for isolation purposes into designated hotels for inbound arrivals to undergo quarantine. Since February, the government enlisted more than 20 h...

The number of new coronavirus cases reported in Hong Kong dropped further on Wednesday, to 12,240. Among them, 4,250 were confirmed by PCR tests in laboratories, while 7,990 people reported their positive rapid test results via an online platform. ...

Health authorities found a total of 143 Covid cases after a number of building lockdowns in Wong Tai Sin, Sham Shui Po, Kwun Tong and Tsuen Wan on Tuesday night. Around 1,100 people at Tan Fung House of Choi Hung Estate were tested and 52 of them w...

People who applied for the government’s unemployment subsidy on Wednesday said they hope the coronavirus outbreak can be brought to an end quickly so that they can get back on their feet. Many of them headed to five government centres to sign u...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Wednesday that resuming quarantine-free cross-border travel with the mainland remains a top priority of the SAR government, but admitted there isn’t a timetable yet. The SAR government had been in talks with its...

Researchers from Polytechnic University have warned that two in five Covid-19 patients in Hong Kong may suffer from the ‘long Covid’ syndrome even after they are cleared of the coronavirus, adding that aerobic and lower limb exercises can help ea...

The government announced on Wednesday that schools are required to have all of their staff members and at least 90 percent of students double-jabbed in order to resume full-day in-person classes after their early summer break in April. Speaking at ...

Representatives of the tourism industry and domestic helper agencies have urged authorities to lift or adjust the flight suspension mechanism, saying it's no longer appropriate to temporarily ban specific flights from landing in Hong Kong just becaus...

The chief of China’s foreign ministry office in Hong Kong says the SAR will triumph in its fight against Covid-19 with "robust support from Beijing", adding that One Country, Two Systems will play a part in helping the city "claim victory soon". I...

The government on Tuesday issued a compulsory testing notice for 10 locations across the territory. People who stayed at these places for more than two hours from March 9 to 22 are required to undergo a Covid-19 nucleic acid test by Thursday. “In...