Health officials on Sunday reported 8,033 new Covid-19 cases, including 503 imported infections. The daily tally was down from the 8,874 reported on Saturday. Another 20 patients with Covid have died. Meanwhile, the chairman of the Hospital Aut...

Chief Executive John Lee said on Sunday that he's returned to work after testing negative for Covid-19 on two consecutive days. He came down with the coronavirus after making his first overseas trip as Hong Kong's leader to attend the APEC submit i...

Staff from the competition watchdog, police and other government departments on Sunday visited the Aberdeen Wholesale Fish Market to investigate reports of price-fixing. The Competition Commission said it was acting on a complaint that wholesalers ...

The Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism, Kevin Yeung, said on Sunday that the government is planning a pilot scheme to ensure stage safety during large-scale performances. Speaking on a TVB programme, Yeung noted that, at present, anyone who ...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan said on Sunday that developing high value-added services is the way forward for Hong Kong’s shipping industry. Writing on his weekly blog, he noted people had questioned Hong Kong’s prospect as a maritime centre, a...

The former Executive Council convenor, Bernard Chan, said on Sunday that a visit by a Hong Kong business delegation to the Apec summit sent an important message that the SAR is heading towards further opening up. He made the comments a week after t...

The chairwoman of the Mandatory Provident Fund (MPF) Schemes Authority, Ayesha Lau, on Sunday called on the public not to be overly concerned about market fluctuation, stressing that the scheme is "a very long-term investment". Lawmakers recently c...

Transport enthusiasts packed into Choi Hung Station on Sunday morning to greet the first in a new generation of trains on the MTR network. The MTR says the eight-carriage “Q-train”, manufactured by CRRC QingDao Sifang Corporation, boasts wider ...

Hong Kong's sole delegate to the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) said on Saturday China's top legislative body would need to interpret the law if admission of overseas lawyers was allowed in national security cases. Tam Yiu-chu...

Six people who fled Polytechnic University during unrest in 2019 were found guilty of rioting on Saturday, in the first case involving protesters on the campus. Deputy Judge Colin Wong said the defendants had been there to advocate unlawful acts of ...

Hong Kong on Saturday reported 8,874 new coronavirus infections, including 509 imported cases. Nine more patients with Covid have died. The government has rejected calls to further relax social distancing measures and restrictions on people flyin...

The Under Secretary for Health, Libby Lee, on Saturday said Covid restrictions should not be further eased as case numbers were rising. She told a TV programme that the daily tally - which has doubled from earlier this month - had not peaked, and re...

The Commissioner of Police, Raymond Siu, on Saturday said officers had met staff members of the Hong Kong Rugby Union and collected their communication records as part of their investigation into the use of a wrong song in place of the national anthe...

Booster shots that protect against both the highly-infectious Omicron variant, and the original Covid strain, will be available to the public from next month. The government made the announcement after around 770,000 doses of the so-called bivalent...

Doctors and parents of a four-month-old girl who's in desperate need of a heart transplant on Friday made an urgent appeal for a heart donation. The Hong Kong Children’s Hospital said the girl is suffering from dilated cardiomyopathy – a condit...

The Airport Authority said on Friday that around 140 flights a day use the new third runway at the airport in November. It said some 11,000 flights have used it since operations began in early July, adding that other related works such as the expan...

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The Court of Final Appeal said it will hand down a decision on Monday on whether to grant leave for an appeal that seeks to ban an overseas lawyer from representing former media tycoon Jimmy Lai in his upcoming national security trial. The Departmen...

Cardinal Joseph Zen and five others were on Friday found guilty of failing to register their fund for protesters as a society. The now-defunct 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund raised money to pay the legal and medical fees of protesters between July 201...

The Hong Kong Taxi and Public Light Bus Association on Friday submitted an application to the Transport Department for a HK$6 increase in the flag fall for urban taxis, to HK$33. The head of the association, Chow Kwok-keung, said he hopes the increa...