The Competition Commission is taking legal action against a seasoning manufacturer for allegedly imposing a minimum resale price when supplying MSG powder to its two main local distributors. It is the first time the commission is bringing a case of ...

Police have on Thursday found the body of man believed to have been kidnapped near a village in Ta Kwu Ling, sources said. Officers are investigating at a slope near Ping Yeung village. It's understood that two men have been arrested in connectio...

The Consumer Council said on Thursday that over 90 percent of margarine and spreads it has examined contain substances that can cause cancer. Out of 16 samples of margarine and spreads containing vegetable oil, 15 were found to have genotoxic carci...

The Consumer Council said on Thursday the wording on almost 90 percent of food labels it examined was so small that even people with normal eyesight might require a magnifying glass. The council examined 55 pre-packaged food items and said 48 of the...

A catering trade representative on Thursday warned there may be more closures coming from his sector, after the abrupt folding of bakery chain Crostini this week. The chain earlier cited the “bad” business environment in Hong Kong over the past...

Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Algernon Yau said on Thursday that he will seek to "tell the good stories of Hong Kong" when he visits Cambodia this week. Speaking to reporters at the airport before his departure from Hong Kong, Yau ...

The founder and Chief Executive of Centaline Property Group, Shih Wing-ching, says he expects at least a 15 percent fall in local property prices over the next 12 months due to higher interest rates. The US Federal Reserve looks set to increase rates...

The government on Wednesday 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. ...

Customs officers on Wednesday said a batch of live turtles was among the items seized in an anti-smuggling operation. They said they confiscated more than 30 carton boxes of smuggled goods worth HK$800,000 in their operation in the eastern waters of...

Hong Kong on Wednesday logged 7,579 new Covid infections, 161 of which were imported cases. Ten more chronically ill patients – aged between 72 and 99 – have died with Covid in the previous day. 2,834 Covid patients are currently being treated ...

The government has been urged to introduce legislation to better protect people working outside in the sweltering heat. Greenpeace and the Hong Kong Catholic Commission for Labour Affairs made the appeal on Wednesday. They said they had carried ou...

The Department of Justice (DoJ) was on Wednesday granted a request to challenge the not guilty verdict of a woman who had allegedly refused to present her ID card to the police during a protest in 2019. The defendant, Lam Hiu-wa, was at a rally in ...

A project has been launched to preserve and restore coral in Hong Kong using the world’s first 3D coral reef tile printing solution. Sino Group with its Hong Kong Innovation Foundation is working on the initiative with Ocean Park and a start-up, ...

A joint study by two local universities has found that the antibody levels in people who have been vaccinated and infected with the Omicron BA.2 strain of Covid is higher, when compared to those who are triple jabbed and have never been infected. T...

The cake shop chain Crostini closed down its stores for good on Wednesday, citing the pandemic. In a social media post published on Tuesday night, the company said the business environment in Hong Kong has been bad over the past two years and it had...

Infectious disease expert Joseph Tsang says the Hong Kong government should stop giving mainland and Macau people vaccine passes if they haven't been jabbed or don't have a medical exemption certificate. On Tuesday, Chief Executive John Lee said mai...

The government announced on Tuesday that inbound travelers confirmed to have Covid-19 in their quarantine hotels can stay put starting from November. Currently, they are moved to community isolation facilities in Penny's Bay or Kai Tak after testin...

The government on Monday 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...

Chief Secretary Eric Chan on Tuesday signed the condolence book for Queen Elizabeth II on behalf of the Hong Kong SAR government. The government said in a brief statement that Chan went to the British Consulate to express "profound condolences" on ...

A international survey has found that only 37 percent of eczema patients in the city are working on treatment plans with doctors, while two-thirds have lost hope. GlobalSkin, an international alliance of dermatology patient organisations, initiated ...