A recent survey suggests the proportion of children who are overweight or obese in Hong Kong has more than doubled during the pandemic. At a press conference on Thursday, researchers from Chinese University's medical school and the Paediatric Founda...

A minority rights group on Thursday criticised a decision by authorities to drop Hindi and Urdu as foreign language subjects taken in future university entrance exams, saying the move is unfair to ethnic minority students. The Hong Kong Examination...

Exams authorities say they plan to allow qualified mainland schools to hold Hong Kong university entrance exams from 2024. In a circular to schools on Wednesday, the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority (HKEAA) said it has changed some r...

The government on Wednesday issued compulsory testing notices for 30 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. ...

Officials from the Centre for Health Protection said on Wednesday that they expect Hong Kong's daily coronavirus figure to top the 2,000-mark soon as the city added the another 1,323 local cases. There were also 124 imported infections. Nearly 600 ...

A former worker at a scandal-hit foster home was on Wednesday sentenced to four months in jail for assaulting a two-year-old boy on multiple occasions. Heung Wing-shan earlier admitted at the Kowloon City magistracy to having pulled the boy's limbs ...

More than a dozen schools in Tin Shui Wai suspended classes on Wednesday in light of a power outrage caused by a fire the night before. But some parents complained that the announcement came too late, with their children already arrived at school or...

Residents affected by the power outage in New Territories West on Wednesday said they had to endure high temperatures during the night, while some said they enjoyed a candlelit dinner in the dark. 160,000 households in Yuen Long, Tin Shui Wai and Tu...

The government has come under fire over its handling of the power outage in parts of the New Territories on Tuesday, as lawmakers complained about what they see as the lack of efforts to keep the public informed. DAB lawmaker Holden Chow on Wednesda...

New People's Party chairwoman Regina Ip has been named the new convenor of incoming leader John Lee’s Executive Council. Ip has been a member of Exco since 2012, serving in both the CY Leung and Carrie Lam administrations. She thanked Lee for t...

Incoming deputy justice chief Horace Cheung on Wednesday announced he's quit the DAB, saying this paves the way for him to take up his new role. Earlier, he also resigned from his position as legislative councillor. In a social media post, Cheung ...

CLP said on Wednesday that electricity has been restored to all households affected by a massive power outage in New Territories West caused by a fire that destroyed a transmission cable bridge in Yuen Long. The power firm earlier said it might tak...

The Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Rugby Union, Robbie McRobbie, said on Wednesday that it's waiting for the government to sign off on its plans to hold the Hong Kong Sevens in November and will make a decision within a few weeks. He said he was c...

The Fire Services Department said it will work with CLP and the police to investigate what caused the fire on a cable bridge, that eventually collapsed, in Yuen Long that led to a power blackout of around 160,000 households on Tuesday night. However...

CLP on Wednesday said it would need two days to restore electricity to 20,000 households, after a fire at a cable bridge caused a huge blackout on Tuesday evening across New Territories West. It said the outage had affected 160,000 households but tha...

The government on Tuesday asked the owners of the Jumbo Floating Restaurant for a report on how the vessel came to capsize last Saturday, as it was being towed in the South China Sea. The Marine Department said it had cleared the iconic restaurant ...

A private car on Tuesday lost control and crashed near the entrance of the Tai Lam Tunnel, before catching fire. The driver, who had been trapped inside, was sent to Yan Chai Hospital, after being rescued by firefighters. The incident happened at ab...

The police watchdog said on Tuesday it's pleased with the force's efforts to follow up with all of the 52 recommendations it made after the social unrest in 2019. In a meeting with the Independent Police Complaints Council, officers said they had ro...

The government on Tuesday issued compulsory testing notices for 25 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...

New Territories West was hit by a massive power outage on Tuesday after a fire broke out on a CLP power cable bridge at Kwong Yip Street in Yuen Long at 7.12pm, trapping people in lifts and disrupting hospital and train services. People in the Yuen ...