The government has on Tuesday added a new function to its LeaveHomeSafe app to allow users to store the vaccination records of up to eight companions, days before the vaccine pass arrangement is being extended to children as young as five. The upda...

Police on Tuesday said they had arrested a doctor on suspicion of providing exemption certificates for the government's vaccine pass without holding medical consultations. The man, 65, was being detained pending further investigation. Officers sa...

Chief Executive John Lee said on Tuesday that officials will monitor whether a relaxation of rules for inbound travellers leads to a rebound in Covid cases. He said society has largely welcomed the move to scrap hotel quarantine for arrivals and ins...

The Po Leung Kuk said on Monday that it had reported a staff member to the police over alleged child abuse. The charitable organisation said it had suspended the employee from work as well, after it found she had pushed six young children down on a...

Two lawmakers on Monday tested positive for Covid-19. Legco’s secretariat said Chow Man-kwong and Wendy Hong had last been at their offices in Citic Tower in Admiralty on Friday and Saturday. They had kept their masks on during their brief stay...

Health officials on Monday reported 4,034 new cases, including 188 imported infections. Twelve more coronavirus patients, aged between 64 and 95, have died. More than 2,000 patients are currently being treated in public hospitals, including 15 w...

A mountaineering coach warned on Monday that Nei San Stream on Lantau is one of the most dangerous climbs in Hong Kong and is unsuitable for inexperienced hikers, a day after a man fell to his death there. Jewellery company owner Ken Lo, 65, slipped...

School closures earlier in the pandemic harmed children's quality of sleep even though many spent longer in bed, Hong Kong researchers said on Monday. A team from the University of Hong Kong looked at the sleep patterns of 759 primary school student...

The High Court on Monday issued an order for police to confiscate around HK$70 million of assets from a fund-raising platform linked to the protests in 2019 against the now-shelved extradition bill. Superintendent Chow Cheung-yau, from the force’...

Travellers arriving in Hong Kong on Monday were heading straight to their homes or hotels, instead of a designated quarantine hotel, as a new "0+3" arrangement takes effect. The new measure only requires new arrivals to undergo three days of “med...

Cardinal Joseph Zen and five other people went on trial on Monday over their alleged roles in a now-defunct fund set up to pay the legal and medical fees of anti-government protesters. Zen, former legislators Margaret Ng and Cyd Ho, Cantopop singer ...

The Travel Industry Council (TIC) on Monday said it expects outbound travel to surge by as much as 50 percent for the next few months as HongKongers take advantage of newly-relaxed Covid restrictions. However, the council’s executive director Fann...

A 65-year-old man has died after falling off a cliff on Lantau Island. Police say they received a call that he'd slipped and fallen at around noon on Sunday. The man was unconscious when rescuers arrived. He was flown to Eastern Hospital, where...

The government on Sunday 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...

Health authorities on Sunday reported that Hong Kong has added 3,897 Covid-19 infections. Of the newly logged cases, 117 were imported. The newly reported daily infection figure was down by about 25 percent from the 5,190 recorded the day before....

Hong Kong's only delegate to the country's top legislature, Tam Yiu-chung, said on Sunday he does not see any conflict between the SAR's external border relaxation and reopening borders with the mainland. The National People's Congress Standing Comm...

Five groups representing the catering industry have demanded that the government ease its Covid restrictions on restaurants, warning that more eateries could be forced to close as residents opt to travel instead of spending domestically. They called...

The chairwoman of the Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority (MPFA), Ayesha Macpherson Lau, said on Sunday that her team is working to reduce administrative fees for MPF schemes by 55 percent. Writing on her blog, Lau said the authority is maki...

Health minister Lo Chung-mau said on Sunday that it's currently not appropriate to scrap inbound travel restrictions, because Hong Kong needs to stay vigilant against new Covid variants emerging overseas. In the latest round of border relaxation me...

A non-governmental organisation has suggested that professional help should be offered to families involved in suspected child abuse cases, after official figures showed there was a jump in such cases during the Covid pandemic. The Social Welfare De...