The Housing Authority approved two measures to assist people in purchasing subsidised sale flats on Friday. This included a government proposal aimed at further facilitating families with newborns to buy their own homes. Starting with the next Home...

Heavy losses incurred by the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority are the result of a "time-lag problem" that ensues when cultural venues have opened but the commercial developments meant to support them have not yet been built, its chairman said...

Chief Executive John Lee on Friday praised SAR athletes at a homecoming ceremony for the Hong Kong, China delegation, after they won 41 medals at the fifth Asian Para Games. The team won three gold, 14 silver and 24 bronze medals. More than 150 peo...

Secretary for Development Bernadette Linn on Friday said the government would improve its acceptance-inspection regime for lifts. Her remarks came after authorities found that 720 lifts installed by Taizoom Elevator were missing mandatory fire resis...

Lawmakers voiced concern on Friday over the seriousness of the lift faults at Queen Mary Hospital's new clinical block, after Secretary for Development Bernadette Linn reported the investigation findings to a special meeting of the Legislative Counci...

The Development Bureau has identified deficiencies and shortcomings by the contractor, professionals and government departments in the installation of faulty lifts at Queen Mary Hospital's new clinical block. Chief Executive John Lee ordered an inve...

Top stories for Thursday, Nov 12, 2026 - President Xi urges the nation to carry forward the legacy of Sun Yat-sen. - Legco passes a bill to accelerate development of the Northern Metropolis. - Two are killed and more than a dozen injured as a New...

The former brother-in-law of celebrity Abby Choi told the High Court on Thursday that he should have called the police or an ambulance on the day of her killing. This came a day after he told the court that it was his brother – Choi’s ex-husband...

Police on Thursday said they had arrested 10 people in a two-day operation against the sale of fake concert tickets and related money laundering, after mule accounts linked to the cases were found to have handled more than HK$81 million in suspected ...

The Legislative Council passed a bill on Thursday dedicated to accelerating Northern Metropolis development by further easing barriers on planning and land procedures. The bill was introduced to lawmakers for its first reading in July. Secretary fo...

School teachers in Hong Kong will be required to hold practising certificates and barred from classrooms upon conviction of national security offences under an education amendment bill to be gazetted on Friday. The Education (Amendment) Bill 2026 wi...

Civil Servants General Union chairman Fung Chuen-chung welcomed on Thursday a plan to give government employees up to 12 hours of family care leave a year, calling it a very desirable step forward in letting staff look after their families while also...

The ICAC has charged a site team leader on the Kai Tak Hospital project with taking HK$75,100 in bribes from five imported electrical workers. Zeng Chusong, 52, of subcontractor Billion Best (E&M) Engineering, faces 10 counts of an agent accepting a...

The Hong Kong Arts Development Council said on Thursday that the government’s move to tie the funding mechanism for major performing arts groups to performance and artistic merits will encourage the industry to deliver higher performance standards....

Chief Executive John Lee on Thursday said the SAR government was working to enrich resources for patriotic education, providing a broader platform for the younger generation to learn about national affairs. Speaking at a ceremony to commemorate the ...

The Education Bureau on Tuesday said it reached out to a secondary school in Tsuen Wan, after a video, purportedly showing a female student vaping inside a toilet with her schoolmates, went viral online. The video, which was posted on social media, ...

Top stories for Wednesday, Nov 11, 2026 - Officials say a lower cost estimate for the Northern Link does not mean that safety or quality will be compromised. - More checks will be carried out at a luxury residential development in Stanley after the...

The former brother-in-law of celebrity Abby Choi told the High Court on Wednesday that his brother – her ex-husband – killed her. On the 35th day of the trial, Kwong Kong-kit was asked by his counsel who killed Choi. Kwong, who did not respond ...

Hong Kong is 11th in the world and fourth in Asia for digital and artificial intelligence competitiveness, according to a ranking unveiled on Wednesday. The International Institute for Management Development's World Digital and AI Ranking 2026 cover...

Hong Kong has opened a new international police academy aimed at strengthening cross-border law enforcement cooperation and training local and overseas officers, according to Chief Executive John Lee. Speaking on Wednesday at the inauguration ceremo...