The government on Tuesday lowered the minimum age limit for the Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine to six months, as recommended by its advisers a day earlier. Previously, children needed to be older than three to get Sinovac, and five for BioNTech. Authori...

Kenneth Fok, the lawmaker representing the performing arts sector, says practitioners understand the need to introduce temporary safety measures amid the probe into a MIRROR concert accident last week that left two performers injured. His comments ...

The Hong Kong Automobile Association has welcomed a proposal by seven car distributors to change their warranty policies in order to give vehicle owners more freedom in choosing where to get repairs and maintenance. Under the plan, car owners will n...

Food Expo organisers on Tuesday rejected a call to allow people to sample the delicacies on sale at this year's event. Simon Wong, the president of the Federation of Restaurants and Related Trades, told a Commercial Radio programme that a lot of exh...

The president of the Hong Kong Paediatric Society on Tuesday urged parents to get their young children vaccinated against Covid as soon as possible – as there has been a rise in serious cases among young patients. Dr Patrick Ip made the comment a...

The Hospital Authority has rejected safety concerns about paracetamol it procured from the mainland when the fifth wave of Covid peaked earlier in the year. In a media session, the authority said that, although the mainland-made painkiller was not r...

National security police said on Monday that they had arrested two men for allegedly publishing seditious messages on social platforms. The men, aged 34 and 36, were separately arrested in Wan Chai and Central. Police said the suspects were suspe...

Government advisers have unanimously agreed to recommend a lowering of the minimum age for vaccination to six months. Currently, children must be aged three or above to receive the Sinovac vaccine, while the minimum age for BioNtech is set at five....

The government on Monday issued compulsory testing notices for 66 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...

The government on Monday brought in a series of short-term rules for event organisers as it investigates an incident in which a giant video screen fell onto the stage at Thursday's MIRRIR gig, leaving two dancers injured, one of them seriously. As ...

The Hospital Authority (HA) on Monday said a 22-month-old infected with Covid had died. The girl developed symptoms last Wednesday and was admitted to the intensive care unit at Eastern Hospital. The HA said her condition continued to worsen and s...

The Competition Commission on Monday launched a consultation on seven car distributors’ proposed undertakings to change their warranty policies in order to give vehicle owners more freedom in choosing repair and maintenance services. The watchdog...

Police said on Monday that 60 people have been arrested in the past two weeks in connection with dozens of suspected fraud cases. Detectives in Mong Kok said around HK$75 million was believed to have been swindled in total, in 44 alleged scams. Su...

The West Kowloon Court on Monday acquitted a Chinese University student of an unlawful assembly charge related to a 2019 protest. Handing down judgement, magistrate Jeffrey Sze said video clips provided to the court failed to show Cheng Ting-fung, ...

Chief Executive John Lee said the government has decided to shorten the seven-day hotel quarantine requirement for inbound travellers, but the Health Bureau and the Hospital Authority have to look at various data before any concrete decisions are mad...

Culture secretary Kevin Yeung said on Monday that he expects authorities to be able to find out in one to two weeks' time why a huge video screen crashed down on performers at the MIRROR concert last week. The accident on Thursday injured two dance...

MIRROR’s concert producer Francis Lam has on Monday released a statement on social media, apologising for last Thursday's accident which left two dancers hurt – one critically. In the statement released four days after the dancers were hit by a...

The Hong Kong Rugby Union – which organises the Hong Kong Sevens – on Monday said it expects there will be fewer overseas visitors to the tournament this year, given the city's quarantining of arrivals. But the union's chief executive, Robbie M...

The government on Sunday issued compulsory testing notices for 65 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...

Police on Sunday said they had laid a holding charge of manslaughter against two men, after a 40-year-old man was found dead in a hotel room on Hollywood Road in Central on Saturday. The pair, a 38-year-old foreign national and a local man, 44, were...