Police said they are investigating a robbery case at a watch shop in Causeway Bay in which at least 70 watches were stolen. The force said they believe four robbers had entered the shop on Lockhart Road carrying at least one knife and a gun-like ob...

DAB members are to visit five ASEAN countries early next month to promote Hong Kong and clarify any "misunderstandings" they may have about the city. At a virtual press conference on Wednesday, party chairwoman Starry Lee said a total of 16 party me...

A government pandemic advisor on Wednesday called on schools to work harder to boost the vaccination rate among pupils. Lau Yu-lung, who is also Chair Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Hong Kong, made the comment after the Education Bur...

Vice-premier Han Zheng said on Wednesday that the central government hopes Hong Kong will continue to develop its professional services sector to facilitate the country’s Belt and Road strategy. Delivering a virtual address at a Belt and Road sum...

Chief Executive John Lee said he will hold a virtual meeting on Thursday with officials from Guangdong province, as well as the cities of Guangzhou and Shenzhen, to discuss topics relating to deeper collaborations, including “cross-border exchanges...

The government on Tuesday issued compulsory testing notices for 63 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...

A study by the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has suggested that men and young adults are more prone to myocarditis – or inflammation of the heart muscle – after taking a second dose of BioNTech vaccine, even though the probability of that happeni...

Hong Kong on Tuesday recorded another 8,848 Covid infections, including 237 imported cases. The Hospital Authority said more than 2,500 Covid patients were being treated in public hospitals, 13 of them in intensive care. Another 13 patients with ...

This year's Miss Hong Kong Pageant is being postponed after five of the contestants came down with Covid. Organiser TVB said in a statement that the semi-final planned for this Sunday evening will be pushed back to a later date. The other 14 conte...

The president of the Law Society, Chan Chak-ming, said on Tuesday that he is planning to conduct more overseas visits in his coming term, to “clarify misunderstandings” about Hong Kong’s rule of law and the city’s judicial system. Chan made...

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...