Executive Council convenor Regina Ip on Saturday said the headline of a interview she had done with Bloomberg created a misunderstanding, but added that she would be more careful with her words in the future, after her comments on stamp duty led to a...

Education minister Christine Choi said on Saturday that students with amber codes should go to school only if the campus environment is suitable. Under the new quarantine rules, which came into effect on Friday, inbound travellers will receive an a...

Deputy Chief Secretary Warner Cheuk on Saturday admitted inadequacies in the government hygiene efforts in the past and said the authorities would step up education to keep the city clean, adding that officials would review the penalty for littering....

Police said on Saturday they had arrested a married couple on suspicion of murder, following the death of a three-month-old baby boy in the early hours of the morning. The suspects are a 35-year-old man and his 24-year-old wife. Officers said the...

Health minister Lo Chung-mau has played down the likelihood of Hong Kong quickly doing away with quarantine hotels and moving to seven days of health monitoring instead. Speaking on two radio programmes on Saturday, he said the latest move to three ...

The government on Friday 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...

The government on Friday said the Hong Kong Coliseum will be open for use again as a probe into a serious accident at a MIRROR concert last month continues. A huge video screen fell onto the stage during the show on July 28, injuring two dancers –...

Hong Kong on Friday reported 4,439 new coronavirus infections, including 217 imported cases. Another 230 Covid patients had been admitted to hospital for treatment, including 23 children below the age of three. At present, 1,565 Covid patients ar...

Education authorities said students and staff members with an amber code are restricted from mask-off activities and are banned from having lunch with others on campus. Under the government's new rule that came into effect on Friday, inbound travel...

The government says it will launch a three-month operation on Sunday targeting over 600 hygiene black spots, as part of a two-phase campaign to build a cleaner city. At a press briefing on Friday, Deputy Chief Secretary Warner Cheuk, who's leading ...

The High Court on Friday sentenced two people to five and a half years in prison for rioting after two groups hurled bricks at each other in Sheung Shui in 2019, leading to the death of a 70-year-old man. Kelvin Lau, 19, and Chan Yin-ting, 18, were ...

Unionist legislator Luk Chung-hung said on Friday that he has received a small number of complaints and enquiries in relation to workers with an amber Covid code being told not to return to work or having their pay docked. Current rules state that a...

Pandemic advisor Lau Yu-lung on Friday urged parents to get Covid-19 jabs for their young children as soon as possible, saying time is running short to give kids the protection they need ahead of an expected surge in cases in winter. Professor Lau â...

Former Chief Executive Carrie Lam and many top officials in her administration were on Friday appointed Justices of the Peace (JP) by the new government. Former ministers Sophia Chan, Frank Chan, Patrick Nip, Alfred Sit, Wong Kam-sing and Edward Yau...

The government on Thursday issued compulsory testing notices for 60 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. ...

Latest government figures showed Hong Kong's population fell by 1.6 percent in the past year, with a net outflow of people accounting for nearly 80 percent of the decrease. According to figures by the Census and Statistics Department, the city's pop...

Hong Kong on Thursday recorded 4,376 new Covid cases, including 196 imported infections, with health officials renewing their appeal for the public to get vaccinated in light of what they described as a worrying increase in people who need hospital t...

The Food Expo got underway on Thursday, with visitors expressing mixed views on the product tasting ban in force for a second year due to the pandemic. Some people queued up overnight to be among the first visitors to the five-day event at the Conv...

Chief Executive John Lee said on Thursday that Hong Kong needs to grab international talent in innovation and technology. Making a speech at an IT summit, he said this was among the views he collected in recent consultation sessions for his policy a...

The government said on Thursday that around 2,200 children aged between six months and three years have been given the Sinovac vaccine since it became available to the age group a week ago. That’s according to the Secretary for the Civil Service,...