Health authorities on Thursday warned that the number of local Covid-19 infections has risen significantly over the past week, adding that the first batch of BioNTech bivalent booster vaccine is expected to arrive at the end of the month. Officials...

A light goods vehicle managed to leave a tiny fenced road on The Peak on Thursday afternoon after being trapped there overnight. Police said they received a call for help from the driver just before 3pm on Wednesday. Online videos showed the van ...

Customs officers on Thursday said they recently seized around 100,000 counterfeit football jerseys and sports shoes with an estimated market value of more than $50 million. Fifteen people were arrested and released on bail. Officers said they foun...

Two former Cathay Pacific flight attendants who are believed to have brought the Omicron variant into the community last December and triggered the city’s fifth wave of infections were on Thursday convicted of violating quarantine rules. Eastern ...

High Court judge Audrey Campbell-Moffat has informed the judiciary that she will take early retirement in August next year. According to the judiciary, Campbell-Moffat had originally opted to extend her retirement age to 70. But in August this ye...

A lawmaker and former MTR engineer, Gary Zhang, has called on the MTR Corporation to thoroughly review its maintenance procedures, to check if Sunday's partial train derailment at Yau Ma Tei station was caused by insufficient checking of barriers and...

Tributes have been pouring in for Hong Kong DJ and music producer Janette Slack, who died at the age of 42. In a social media post, her brother, Trevor Slack, announced the death of his sister. "She was the light and soul of the room," he wrote. ...

A dislodged metal barrier by the side of the tracks caused a partial train derailment over the weekend, the MTR Corporation said on Wednesday. The railway company also said confusion over a public announcement on the evacuation of the train in ques...

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...