Two senior British judges, including the president of the UK Supreme Court, have submitted their resignation from Hong Kong's highest court as Britain said their presence was no longer tenable. In statement issued on Wednesday, Robert Reed, who head...

Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury Christopher Hui says a future "one-stop shop" online platform for the Mandatory Provident Fund is expected to cut admin costs by 30 percent. The eMPF platform, for members to manage their accounts on...

Health authorities on Wednesday found 103 infections from three buildings that were locked down overnight for Covid-19 testing. Officials said they found 56 positive cases at Ching Yeung House of Cheung Ching Estate in Tsing Yi. 45 residents of blo...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Wednesday that the number of people settling in Hong Kong or leaving the city cannot accurately reflect the level of confidence they have in the SAR as an international hub. Some international businesses and expat...

A local Chinese medicine expert said on Wednesday that he hopes mainland specialists visiting Hong Kong can share their experience on how Chinese medicine can be integrated with Western medicine to treat Covid. Chan Wing-kwong, who chairs the Regis...

Police on Tuesday said they had rearrested 13 men in connection with the social unrest in 2019 and charged 12 of them with rioting and the other with possessing anything with intent to destroy or damage property. The suspects, aged between 25 and 5...

The government on Tuesday said it’s toughening the punishment for people who refuse to comply with its compulsory Covid-19 notices in order to strengthen what officials called the “deterrent effect.” Currently people face a fine of HK$10,000 ...

Eastern Magistracy on Tuesday sentenced former lawmaker Leung Kwok-hung to 14 days in prison after finding him guilty of contempt of Legco. Leung, 66, was found guilty of breaching the Legislative Council (Powers and Privileges) Ordinance by snatch...

A group of homeless people on Tuesday won a lawsuit against the government over the authorities' decision to remove their belongings from the streets more than two years ago, with each of them to be awarded a nominal HK$100 for their losses. The Sma...

Researchers at the University of Hong Kong on Tuesday said their suicide warning index recently rose to an unprecedented "crisis level", with elderly people more at risk of taking their own lives during this fifth wave of Covid infections. The Suic...

Hong Kong’s coronavirus situation remains stable as authorities on Tuesday reported 7,596 new infections. That’s a slight drop from 7,685 recorded on Monday. Chuang Shuk-kwan of the Centre for Health Protection said although the daily toll is s...

Health authorities found 107 positive cases after three buildings were locked down overnight for Covid-19 testing. Officials found 53 positive cases at Cheung Chi House of Cheung Wah Estate in Fanling, and 21 cases were indeterminate. At Kwong Yan ...

Doctors at Queen Elizabeth Hospital say the medical condition of their Covid patients has improved since the facility was converted into a Covid-only site earlier this month. Dr Wu Tak-chiu, who heads the hospital’s infectious diseases team, on T...

Shenzhen authorities on Tuesday said a man has been arrested on suspicion of smuggling four mainland people from Hong Kong back to north of the border. Prosecution said the 36-year-old man, surnamed Chen, climbed through wire fences and arrived at ...

Kowloon Mosque says it will follow every social distancing rule required by the government so it can reopen in time for Muslims to pray there during at least part of the holy month of Ramadan. The government had said Covid restrictions will be rela...

The Federation of Education Workers said on Tuesday that more than 70 percent of teachers are opposed to the plan to resume face-to-face classes on April 19. The group said the findings come from a survey it carried out involving more than 1,300 te...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Tuesday welcomed seven mainland Chinese medicine experts at the border as they arrived to help with Hong Kong's Covid fight. The delegation joins more than 300 mainland healthcare workers already in the city, and they w...

Government medical adviser David Hui has expressed concern that public gatherings during the upcoming Ching Ming Festival and Easter holidays will cause a rebound in Covid infections. On an RTHK show on Tuesday, Hui said the epidemic is slowly easi...

A lawmaker on Tuesday called on the government to issue guidelines to ensure children infected with Covid-19 won’t be separated from their parents or caregivers. The Hospital Authority has been criticised for separating sick children from their pa...

The Social Welfare Department said new arrangements will come into effect from Tuesday to allow holding centres in different districts to admit more residents from residential care homes for the elderly (RCHEs) who have Covid-19 - but with only mild ...