Chief Executive Carrie Lam says Hong Kong will continue to guard against the importation of Covid-19 cases and avoid a resurgence of local infections, as it prepares to reopen its border with the mainland. In an article published on Thursday, Lam e...

The Transport Department said on Thursday that it will bring back a ticketing system for selected services at its licensing offices in a month's time, a day after the Audit Commission urged officials to relieve overcrowding in them. The announcemen...

The Fire Services Department is investigating a fire that broke out in a construction site under the Hoi Kok Street elevated bypass in Tsuen Wan, blanketing it and surrounding buildings in smoke. Firefighters said the blaze started out in a two-sto...

The Fire Services Department said on Thursday that firefighters are battling a blaze at a construction site at Hoi Kok Street in Tsuen Wan. The fire broke out at 6.38am and was upgraded to a No. 3 alarm just before 7am. It said there was heavy smok...

A worker has died and another was injured after a bamboo scaffold they were constructing outside a Tai Po villa suddenly collpased, sending them plunging three metres to the ground. The Labour Department says it's investigating the case and ordered ...

The government on Wednesday 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. ...

Chief Executive candidate John Lee is expected to announce his manifesto on Friday morning. Sources told RTHK on Wednesday that the policy platform will be released at a press conference at the Convention Centre at 11am. A deputy director of Lee'...

The government on Wednesday said it plans to change laws in the second half of this year to require airlines to send information on inbound travellers to the authorities before flight departures. In papers submitted to the legislature, the Security ...

The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) on Wednesday reported 430 new coronavirus cases – 83 more than the previous day. Among the new cases, 222 were confirmed by PCR tests and the rest were reported by people who took self-tests. Officials said ...

Veteran actor Kenneth Tsang died in a quarantine hotel on Wednesday after flying in from Singapore, RTHK has learnt. He was 87. Sources said Tsang tested negative for Covid-19 on Tuesday, but when health officials went to his room on Wednesday morn...

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...