Chief Executive John Lee on Sunday said he was encouraged by the fact that the central government values the SAR a great deal as shown in President Xi Jinping's speech to open the Communist Party Congress. Writing on social media, Lee said the One C...

An NGO has called on the Chief Executive John Lee to prioritise resuming quarantine-free travel with the mainland in his maiden Policy Address on Wednesday. The call was among a raft of measures proposed by the Society for Community Organisation (So...

The chief executive of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service has called on the government to turn quarantine facilities into transitional housing to benefit people on the public housing waiting list. Speaking after a radio programme on Sunday, Chu...

Xi Jinping said on Sunday that Hong Kong returned to stability thanks to efforts by the central government, such as the implementation of the policy of patriots governing the city. The president and party general secretary made the remarks in a spee...

Health officials on Saturday said they had detected 5,424 new coronavirus infections, including 312 that were imported. They said a further seven Covid patients died. There were 23 new cases of the XBB sub-variant, as well as two new BA.2.75.2 ca...

Police said on Saturday that a man had been arrested on suspicion of using a self-storage space for drug trafficking. Officers said that based on intelligence, they stopped the suspect outside a storage unit in Kwai Chung on Friday. They allege tha...

The sole delegate to the country's top legislature, Tam Yiu-chung, said on Saturday that he hopes the quarantine period for travel to the mainland can be shortened by the end of the year. The mainland currently requires travellers from Hong Kong to ...

The Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, Christopher Hui, on Saturday brushed aside comparisons of upcoming fintech events being held by Hong Kong and Singapore, saying the SAR is not scared of competition. This year's Hong Kong FinTe...

A social sciences scholar from the University of Hong Kong, Paul Yip, said on Saturday that nurturing local talent is just as important as attracting it from elsewhere. The Chief Executive, John Lee, has indicated that bringing international talent ...

A government advisor on the pandemic, David Hui, said on Saturday that he expects the daily Covid caseload to go up as more new variants emerge in Hong Kong. But the Chinese University professor stressed that people need not be overly concerned abo...

The Fire Services Department has rebuilt four 24-seater minibuses to help speed up the evacuation of care homes for the elderly and disabled. Deputy Chief Ambulance Officer Kwok Kin-Man told a press conference that the four rebuilt buses will help s...

Researchers say many elderly members of Hong Kong's South Asian community are struggling with language barriers, leaving them in difficulty when seeking medical treatment and unsure of how to access financial support, with matters made worse by the p...

Health officials on Friday said they have detected the first imported Covid cases of new sub-variants BA.4.6 and BQ.1.1. They also recorded three more cases involving the XBB strain, as well as one additional infection of BA.2.75.2. For the day, t...

A 63-year-old man died on Friday after he was trapped under a cement mixer that hit him in Yau Tong. The fatal accident happened on Tung Yuen Street at around 12:20pm, when the vehicle reportedly knocked the man down while making a turn into a cemen...

The man who launched a legal challenge to the government's attempt to invalidate 20,000 vaccine exemption certificates said on Friday he was appealing against a decision to deny him legal aid in the case. Kwok Cheuk-kin, known as the "king of judic...

Health Secretary Lo Chung-Mau said on Friday that relaxing a cap on the number of people allowed to gather in public would take time as it requires amendment of legislation as he pledged to be consistent in implementing Covid restrictions. Officials...

Scientific experts advising the government on Thursday recommended that authorities should bring in a new generation of Covid vaccine that targets Omicron variants. The experts pointed out that the BioNTech bivalent vaccine, which targets the Omicr...

The government on Thursday announced that venues such as restaurants and bars would be allowed to host live performances from next week, ending a two-and-a-half year ban, as officials revealed they're mulling easing a cap on the number of people allo...

RTHK learned on Thursday that a government-appointed committee has proposed raising the statutory minimum wage in Hong Kong from HK$37.5 to HK$40 per hour. The 6.7 percent hike is expected to come into force in May next year upon the Executive Counc...

A youth services group on Thursday urged the government to strengthen anti-drug education, after its study showed a significant jump in the number of online posts about cannabis products in the past year. The study, led by the Hong Kong Federation ...