The Covid vaccination requirement for full-day classes in secondary schools is to be tightened from two jabs to three this November. When secondary schools reopen on Thursday after the summer break, they can only hold half-day classes unless 90 perc...

A High Court judge has ruled that two smartphones owned by jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai can be searched on national security grounds, adding that the need to deal with crimes in the public interest trumps journalistic privilege. Lai, who faces vari...

Infectious disease expert Joseph Tsang said on Tuesday that he agrees with suggestions to tighten the Covid vaccination requirement for full-day classes in secondary schools, from two jabs to three. On an RTHK programme, Tsang said Hong Kong should ...

Police have arrested two men on suspicion of the murder of a 35-year-old man who was attacked in Yau Ma Tei on Monday. The victim was reportedly attacked by several people on motorbikes and was stabbed multiple times. One suspect, 35, was arrested ...

The government on Monday 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. Th...

Health officials on Monday said they would stop giving PCR tests to all those declaring Covid infections after using rapid antigen tests and would carry out spot checks instead. This came as Hong Kong recorded another 8,488 Covid infections, includi...

Former top banker Vincent Cheng, who was the first Chinese to become the chairman of HSBC Asia Pacific, has died at the age of 74. Cheng, who graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong with an economics degree in 1973, took up the top job in...

A man who was shot in the abdomen by a policeman during the social unrest three years ago was on Monday found guilty by the District Court of obstructing the officer and attempting to snatch his gun. Chow Pak-kwan, who was 21 years old at the time,...

Oxfam Hong Kong on Monday called on the government to set new guidelines for sanitation workers so they can stop working during periods of extreme heat. The NGO surveyed 200 sanitation workers from the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department betwe...

Latest government figures showed private home prices have fallen to their lowest in two-and-a-half years. According to data from the Rating and Valuation Department, the private domestic price index in July came in at 376.1. That's the lowest readi...

The president of the Hong Kong Federation of Restaurants said on Monday that a new rule for some diners to get tested for Covid was implemented smoothly, even though there were minor hiccups at some restaurants. Under an arrangement that took effect...

A medical expert advising the government on the pandemic said on Monday that there is no need to tighten social distancing measures despite a surge of infections in recent months. Lau Yu-lung, who is also Chair Professor of Paediatrics at the Unive...

A man has died after being stabbed multiple times in Yau Ma Tei early on Monday. Police said they received a report of several people on motorbikes – with some holding knives – attacking the man near the intersection of Jordan Road and Parkes St...

The Civil Engineering and Development Department has confirmed that its director, Michael Fong, has tested positive for Covid-19. In a statement published on Monday morning, they said Fong was undergoing isolation in accordance with the Centre for ...

Researchers from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have called for a standardised system to provide big data to monitor superbug infections in the city. An active surveillance system has been in place in public hospitals since 2010 to screen patient...

The government on Sunday 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...

A survey by the Hong Kong Lutheran Social Service showed that the pandemic has made young people less willing to socialise, as the group expressed concern that they may be more socially withdrawn. The service's children and youth service division in...

The Security Bureau said one more Hongkonger returned to the SAR on Sunday after falling prey to a job scam in Southeast Asia. A spokesman said the man returned from Thailand, with the assistance of the Chinese embassies in Thailand and Myanmar and...

Hong Kong on Sunday reported 9,495 new local Covid infections – over a thousand cases more than the previous day. Chuang Shuk-kwan from the Centre for Health Protection said the more transmissible subvariant of Omicron – BA.4 and BA.5 – predo...

Restaurant-goers on Sunday welcomed a new rule requiring groups of more than eight diners to present negative Covid tests, but operators said the measure is putting more stress on their staff. As part of the government’s effort to control the res...