The government said on Wednesday that it's looking to table a bill to the Legislative Council in the latter half of next year to lower the triggering threshold for compulsory land sales for redevelopment. In the Chief Executive’s policy address l...

Health authorities on Wednesday reported 6,656 new Covid-19 cases, including 517 imported infections. The daily caseload was higher than the 5,951 announced the day before. Eight more people infected with the coronavirus have died.

Police in Hong Kong and Macau have arrested 56 people in a joint operation over an alleged recruitment scam. In a press briefing on Wednesday, officers said adverts on social media and recruitment platforms offered jobs with high salaries and commi...

Sports official Ronnie Wong on Wednesday said junior staff should not be given solemn tasks like playing the national anthem, and that he does not accept an explanation from Asia Rugby that an intern had made an honest mistake playing the wrong song ...

Lawmakers on Wednesday began debating a motion of thanks for Chief Executive John Lee's maiden policy address. They started the session with discussions on the One Country, Two Systems principle, national security and governance. House Committee ch...

Sai Kung district councillor Christine Fong says the government should be more aggressive with its plans to divert buses through the new Tseung Kwan O-Lam Tin Tunnel. The tunnel and an adjacent Cross Bay Link will be launched on December 11, with f...

The government said it "vehemently refutes" a report by a US congressional committee, saying its comments were slanderous and ill-intentioned. It also urged the United States to stop maliciously interfering in Hong Kong affairs. In a statement is...

Officials said on Tuesday there will initially be five bus routes using the new Tseung Kwan O-Lam Tin Tunnel after it begins operations next month. The new 3.8-kilometre connection and the adjacent Cross Bay Link, a 1.8-kilometre bridge, will open ...

Asia Rugby on Tuesday said an intern made “an innocent mistake” playing the wrong song instead of the national anthem at the Asian Rugby Sevens Series in South Korea over the weekend. But questions remain about why the song, associated with viol...

Leaders of the Law Society said on Tuesday that they have been clearing up misunderstandings the global legal community has about Hong Kong. President Chan Chak-ming said he and three vice-presidents had recently visited places including the UK, US...

The Hong Kong Tourism Board on Tuesday said visitor arrivals last month were up 22 percent from September, to around 80,000. In a statement, it said overseas visitors rose by 20 percent month-on-month to almost 33,000, while mainland visitors were ...

A labour group has expressed "deep disappointment" and "strong opposition" towards the government's policy address suggestion of importing foreign care workers to Hong Kong. While the government had cited a manpower shortage, the Federation of Trad...

Health officials on Tuesday reported 5,951 new Covid-19 infections, including 520 imported cases. The daily tally was slightly down from the 6,014 reported on Monday. Thirteen more patients with Covid have died.

Chief Executive John Lee on Tuesday said he will no longer use "zero plus something" to label Covid policies, adding that authorities are trying to ease restrictions as much as possible. At present, under the "0+3" arrangement, inbound travellers d...

The Consumer Council on Tuesday warned that some health supplements may not be as healthy as they appear, after it found contaminants or carcinogens in some popular fish oil products on sale in Hong Kong. The watchdog tested 25 fish oil samples and...

Chief Executive John Lee made it clear on Tuesday the police would investigate the anthem mistake at the Asian Rugby Sevens Series in South Korea over the weekend. He reiterated it's unacceptable that a song associated with violent protests in 2019,...

A train expert says the MTR Corporation may need to improve its checking of trackside equipment, following Sunday's partial derailment of a train at Yau Ma Tei. On Monday, the MTRC suggested the train may have hit a component that had come off a me...

Chief Executive John Lee said on Monday that police will investigate whether there was a conspiracy to violate the national anthem law or other Hong Kong laws, after an incorrect song was played in its place at a rugby tournament in South Korea. Th...

The government said on Monday that it has suspended the organisers of July's MIRROR concert, Music Nation, from hiring its venues while a criminal probe into how a giant video screen came to crash down on the stage during the show continues. The in...

Six hopefuls have submitted their nomination forms for next month's Legislative Council by-election before the nomination period drew to a close on Monday. They are a member of the Chinese Association of the Hong Kong and Macau Studies, Gary Wong; C...