Police say they have successfully disposed of a naval mine from World War II found last month in waters east of Hong Kong Island. A diver discovered the mine 1.4 kilometres off Cape D'Aguilar near Shek O and alerted the authorities. Officers said i...

People in Hong Kong paid tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II on Friday, placing flowers outside the British Consulate and signing a book of condolence there. "The coins we used when we were young bore the queen's face, her presence was in our da...

Lawmakers have urged the government to further relax immigration requirements to allow arrivals to undergo seven days of health monitoring at home instead of having to quarantine at hotels, saying there's a need to roll out policies that keep up with...

Unionists have called on lawmakers to pass a bill that toughens penalties for employers who neglect occupational safety and cause the death or serious injury of employees, following the fatal crane accident on Anderson Road on Wednesday. At a press...

The government on Thursday welcomed Hong Kong again being ranked as the world's freest economy by the Canadian think-tank, the Frasier Institute, in its Economic Freedom of the World Annual Report. Hong Kong has gained the top rank since the report's...

The government on Thursday issued compulsory testing notices for 75 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. ...

The government announced on Thursday that children as young as five will need its vaccine pass to enter various venues across the city, including restaurants, from September 30. Undersecretary for Health Libby Lee said that to qualify for the pass, ...

The Consumer Council on Thursday urged the government to introduce laws on the use of artificial intelligence (AI), after its survey found a majority of respondents were concerned about digital data privacy. Currently, there is no specific legislat...

The Foreign Ministry on Thursday accused the Foreign Correspondents' Club (FCC) in Hong Kong of making use of every opportunity it gets to attack the government and support anti-China forces, after it expressed concern over the arrest of the head of ...

Police said they will dispose of a naval mine from World War II in the eastern waters of Hong Kong Island on Friday. Officers said they found the mine 1.4 kilometres off Cape D'Aguilar near Shek O after receiving a report from a diver last month, ad...

The head of Beijing's liaison office in Hong Kong, Luo Huining, said on Thursday that he believes the commercial and industrial sectors will seize Hong Kong's development opportunities as the SAR faces a key new chapter in the coming five years. At...

An engineer on Thursday called the collapse of the tower crane on Anderson Road in Sau Mau Ping “a mystery”, noting it had been in use for a month and was not bearing any weight when it tipped over. The accident killed three workers on the cons...

Chief Executive John Lee said on Thursday that two inquiries have been launched into Wednesday's deadly industrial accident on Anderson Road in Sau Mau Ping, where a tower crane collapsed and killed three workers. Lee said he was "very concerned" a...

A No. 3 alarm fire broke out at Container Terminal 1 in Kwai Chung in the early hours of Thursday morning, leaving one person injured. He refused to go to hospital and was treated at the scene. The Fire Services Department said the fire broke out a...

The government on Wednesday issued compulsory testing notices for 75 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. ...

Five people who pleaded guilty to or were convicted of rioting in Tsim Sha Tsui amid clashes at Polytechnic University in November 2019 have been jailed for 37 to 48 months each. Handing down the sentences on Wednesday, District Court judge Anthony ...

The District Court on Wednesday found five speech therapists guilty of conspiring to publish seditious children's books. The court ruled that the three picture books concerned – said to have described Hong Kong as the sheep village and the mainlan...

Health officials on Wednesday reported 10,194 new Covid infections, including 164 imported cases. The Hospital Authority said 2,870 patients were being treated in public hospitals, 15 of them in intensive care. Another 16 patients with Covid, age...

A member of the Commission on Children, Priscilla Lui, said on Wednesday that a proposal on imposing a mandatory reporting requirement for suspected child abuse should not only cover serious cases. The government has proposed to categorise child ab...

Firefighters on Wednesday afternoon recovered the body of a worker trapped under a crane that collapsed hours earlier in Sau Mau Ping, raising the number of dead in the disaster to three. Six others were injured. The crane came down on top of sever...