The government on Wednesday said it won't rule out the idea of setting up a "wealth fund" modeled on the Singapore government's Temasek, to invest in projects linked to the Greater Bay Area and the Northern Metropolis. The idea came from New People...

Chief Executive John Lee said on Wednesday that his administration will set up four working groups to tackle key problems in Hong Kong. Speaking at his first Legislative Council question-and-answer session, Lee told lawmakers that his style of gove...

Hong Kong leader John Lee on Wednesday said a new ‘Chief Executive’s Policy Unit’ would be set up to help his administration keep its finger on the pulse of public sentiment, while senior officials would hold unofficial monthly meetings with la...

Hong Kong's two main legal groups on Wednesday underlined that the judiciary must be free from interference, a day after the police explosives squad was called in to deal with a suspicious parcel sent to the High Court. "Any violence or threat agai...

A wild boar welfare group on Wednesday urged the government to adopt better urban planning practices as a way to manage problems caused by the animals, while repeating its call for an end to the killing of the creatures. Roni Wong from the Hong Kong...

A unionist lawmaker on Wednesday said it would be more appropriate for the government to give its civil servants pay rises of between three and four percent, instead of the 2.5 percent increase proposed by the Executive Council. Speaking on RTHK's ...

The government on Tuesday issued compulsory testing notices for 52 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...

Police said the High Court received a parcel containing unknown powder on Tuesday afternoon. Officers from the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Bureau arrived to handle it, and investigations are ongoing. No one has been arrested so far. In a statemen...

The Kowloon City court on Tuesday handed a one-year jail term to a man who knew he was infected with Covid-19 but still dined at restaurants and used public transport. Magistrate Frances Leung said Lam Hin-yeung's behaviour over five days in Februar...

Hong Kong health authorities on Tuesday reported 2,085 new local Covid infections and 183 imported cases. Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan from the Centre for Health Protection said not only are the number of cases rising, but officials are detecting more infect...

The government is suggesting broadening a ban on feeding wild animals to cover the whole of Hong Kong and introducing tougher penalties for offenders, in a bid to more effectively deal with boars causing nuisance in urban areas. In a paper submitte...

The government on Tuesday proposed an across-the-board pay rise of 2.5 percent for all civil servants. The government-appointed Pay Trend Survey Committee had earlier suggested salary increases of 2.04 percent for junior civil servants, 4.55 percen...

An administrator of a Telegram group was jailed for six months on Tuesday for calling on people to join unauthorised assemblies and to disrupt traffic on Hong Kong Island. Lee Shing-hei, who worked in telecommunications, forwarded messages to the g...

Chief Executive John Lee has written to the legislature asking councillors to focus on several policy areas when he goes there on Wednesday for his first question-and-answer session as CE – though they can ask questions outside the suggested parame...

The deputy chairman of Legco's housing panel, Leung Man-kwong, on Tuesday described Chief Executive John Lee's housing strategy as safe, saying it's crucial not to let public housing waiting times slip. Lee has said that one of his targets is to red...

Chief Executive John Lee says he will be pragmatic in handling Hong Kong’s housing shortage, and will be honest with the public if the government encounters any problems when tackling the issue. Lee was speaking at a media briefing on Tuesday befo...

An engineer on Tuesday said it could be difficult to find the real reason why an engineering vessel broke in two during a typhoon at the weekend. Four of the crew have been rescued and 12 bodies recovered, while another 14 sailors are still missing. ...

The government on Monday issued compulsory testing notices for 39 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. Th...

A local company said on Monday it will trial a four-and-a-half-day work week this summer. New World Group is giving workers at several of its units half a Friday off from July until September without cutting their pay. On top of that, these emplo...

DAB chairwoman Starry Lee said on Monday that she thinks the government adopted all the anti-epidemic measures possible relating to celebrations marking the July 1 anniversary, and the Covid infections that emerged were "unpredictable". Party member...