The government says people travelling via Shenzhen Bay Port to the mainland from July 15 will have to make an appointment for a PCR test at the checkpoint. An online booking system will be available from July 14. A government spokesman said people...

The Immigration Department on Wednesday said more than 900,000 Hong Kong SAR passports have expired without being renewed since 2020, as it called on people to renew them soon. An assistant director of the department, Fan Hiu-sing, said with many co...

Chief Executive John Lee led the government’s first informal ‘antechamber talks’ with lawmakers on Wednesday, with both sides hailing the private chats as frank exchanges that would help to enhance communication and policymaking. Lee, flanked ...

The government has expanded its panel of expert advisers on the Covid-19 epidemic. Professors Ivan Hung and Lau Chak-sing from the University of Hong Kong's department of medicine and paediatrics professor Lau Yu-lung have been newly appointed to th...

The government on Wednesday dismissed suggestions that the civil service might become a less attractive career option in light of planned 2.5-percent across-the-board pay rises this year. The government-appointed Pay Trend Survey Committee had sugge...

The chief operating officer of Citybus says it's the 'right time' and 'necessary' for a merger between his company and New World First Bus, which was given the go-ahead on Tuesday by Exco. Speaking on RTHK's 'Hong Kong Today' programme, Richard Hal...

The government on Tuesday issued compulsory testing notices for 71 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...

Shenzhen authorities are being urged to reserve hundreds of quarantine rooms each day for businesspeople from Hong Kong. Two-thousand new quarantine places for travellers from Hong Kong are currently being provided each day through a ballot system....

The Centre for Food Safety on Tuesday warned people to pay attention to sodium levels in some dim sum dishes, saying excessive sodium intake can lead to health problems like hypertension. The centre tested 120 dim sum samples collected from 50 Chi...

Researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) on Tuesday called on recovered coronavirus patients to take part in the SAR's first citywide study on long Covid, which is hoped will provide a better understanding of the condition and help f...

The Hospital Authority (HA) on Tuesday said some of its non-emergency services have been affected by the worsening pandemic, with almost a thousand Covid patients currently hospitalised. At a daily press briefing, a chief manager with the HA, Dr Sar...

The Executive Council on Tuesday approved an across-the-board pay rise of 2.5 percent for all civil servants. According to the announcement made by the Civil Service Bureau, Exco had taken staff responses to the pay proposal as well as factors such...

A group focusing on the rights of ethnic minorities said on Tuesday that this section of society has been disproportionately affected during the fifth Covid wave, experiencing far higher unemployment than the general population. Unison said its surv...

The Executive Council on Tuesday approved the merger of Citybus and New World First Bus. The new franchise will be named Citybus Limited and will run from July next year until 2033. A government spokesman noted in a statement that the merger will...

Chief Executive John Lee said on Tuesday the proposed health code system will not be used for any purposes other than identifying Covid patients and those who are likely to have been infected. Under the proposal, those confirmed to have been infecte...

The government on Tuesday hit back at criticism from the outgoing US Consul General to Hong Kong, saying Hanscom Smith's remarks were unfair and untrue. Smith had in a farewell speech at the American Chamber of Commerce on Monday said the authoritie...

The government on Monday issued compulsory testing notices for 71 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...

Some legislators on Monday called on the government to find better ways to estimate the number of wild boars in Hong Kong. Speaking at a Legco panel meeting, some lawmakers including Chan Chun-ying from the finance sector told officials that an acc...

Health Secretary Lo Chung-mau said from Friday, people infected with Covid-19 and under home isolation orders will need to wear electronic wristbands to ensure they do not flout regulations and leave their homes prematurely. He said authorities are ...

Officials have proposed combining into one the nomination form for the Rural Representative Election and a separate document that requires a would-be-candidate to confirm that he or she would uphold the Basic Law. This is one of the recommendations...