Five speech therapists convicted of conspiring to publish seditious children's books were on Saturday sentenced to 19-month prison terms. Passing sentence, District Judge Kwok Wai-kin said the three picture books in question could sow seeds of unres...

Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Algernon Yau said on Saturday he is confident that a high-level financial summit in November would be successful - even though Singapore is holding a similar conference around the same time. Speaking ...

The Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism, Kevin Yeung, said two international sports events - a snooker and a rugby sevens tournament - will be held in the city as scheduled, but the authorities have not decided if they will green-light the Stan...

The government on Friday 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 announced that from Saturday, outbound and transit passengers departing for overseas places and Taiwan will no longer be required to undergo temperature screening at the Hong Kong International Airport. Inbound passengers as well as ...

The government on Friday relaxed the quarantine arrangements for locally based air crew working on passenger flights. From Saturday, locally based air crew working on passenger flights to and from overseas places and Taiwan will have to to undergo ...

Hong Kong on Friday recorded 10,076 new Covid infections, including 9,922 local cases. Eleven patients with Covid, aged between 50 and 100, had died in the previous day. At present, 2,759 Covid patients are being treated at public hospitals. The ...

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...