A community group on Wednesday urged the government to relax the application criteria for its temporary unemployment relief scheme, so more grassroots families affected by the Covid pandemic can benefit. Grassroots Wishes interviewed 311 people and ...

Private home prices in Hong Kong have slipped for a third straight month to a 15-month low. New government figures released on Wednesday showed that March home prices edged down 0.7 percent on month, but the decline narrowed from the 1.8 percent fa...

The government on Wednesday said it had found five Covid infections and eight undetermined cases after an overnight lockdown of a residential block in Tuen Mun. Some 940 people from Tip Sum House at Butterfly Estate were tested. A Kwai Chung housin...

The Audit Commission has urged the Water Supplies Department to take measures to make sure leaky salt water mains, and those that have burst, are fixed as soon as possible. In its latest report released on Wednesday, the commission said 6,193 salt ...

The government on Wednesday announced that doctors with medical qualifications from 27 non-local universities will be eligible to apply to practise in Hong Kong. They include 15 universities in the US, six in the UK, three in Canada, two in Australi...

The Audit Commission on Wednesday called on the Transport Department to relieve overcrowding at one of its licensing offices, suggesting that it uses a ticketing system so people don't have to wait in line in person. Officers from the public spendi...

The founder of the now-defunct Next Digital, Jimmy Lai, on Wednesday pleaded not guilty to two charges of fraud, over the alleged use of the headquarters of his media company for purposes not specified in the lease. The prosecution alleges that Lai,...

The Director of Audit on Wednesday urged the government to quickly replace drinking fountains at its sports grounds to prevent the transmission of Covid-19. The Auditor said in his latest report that it should replace them with water dispensers fo...

Environment Secretary Wong Kam-sing said on Wednesday that the government's feed-in tariff scheme is still attractive, even though people will now be paid less for selling solar or wind power they generate back to the grid. Previously, households a...

The Chinese University of Hong Kong has confirmed that Rocky Tuan has been re-appointed as its vice-chancellor. A statement released by the university on Wednesday morning said Tuan's re-appointment comes following a council meeting on Tuesday, and...

The government on Tuesday issued compulsory testing notices for 40 places across Hong Kong. Anyone who has visited any of these premises and stayed there for the length of time and on the dates specified must get a nucleic acid test for Covid-19. T...

Researchers and social workers looking into the issue of sexual violence on Tuesday called for more public education on the behavior of non-consensual photography, after they found that many offenders did not understand the gravity of such acts or wh...

A man was on Tuesday sentenced to jail for 30 days after he admitted to spitting on the doors of his neighbours during a Covid lockdown. West Kowloon Magistrates’ Court had earlier heard that Ng Lun-chung, 35, spat on the metal gates and doorbell...

The number of new Covid cases in Hong Kong dropped further to 347 on Tuesday. This was 84 fewer than Monday. Among the new cases, 205 were confirmed by PCR tests and the rest were reported by people who took self-tests. The number of newly reco...

The government says some 7,900 people have made appointments to have their Covid-19 jabs at home since bookings for the outreach vaccination scheme opened a week ago. Twenty medical teams started visiting homes in Eastern district on Tuesday mornin...

A new survey suggests Hong Kong has seen a 15 percent drop in the number of multi-millionaires, to 434,000. Citibank on Tuesday said it arrived at this number after carrying out a telephone survey in the final few months of last year involving 3,786...

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data on Tuesday arrested a man on suspicion of disclosing three people's personal data without consent. This was the second arrest the office has made after a new law criminalising doxxing came int...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Tuesday said press freedom is enshrined in the Basic Law, and it has always been safeguarded and upheld in the SAR since the handover. Ahead of the Executive Council meeting, the chief executive was asked by the media i...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday that the government will stick to its plans to further relax social distancing measures in the latter half of next month, saying Hong Kong is on the path to resuming normal activities after being hit hard by...

The government on Tuesday said it found six Covid-19 infections after testing almost 1,800 residents in two housing blocks in the New Territories. Officials said four residents in block 13 of Yuet Wu Villa in Tuen Mun tested positive for the virus,...