Hong Kong has so far received no reports of government systems being affected by Friday’s disruption to Microsoft services. In response to enquiries, the Digital Policy Office said it was highly concerned about the software system failure, which d...

An 82-year-old woman has been hospitalised in an unconscious state after being hit by a light goods vehicle in Ngau Tau Kok around noon on Saturday. The 40-year-old driver was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving. Police said the driver was ...

Lawmakers have called on the government to tighten artificial intelligence regulations after the city ranked just 50th out of 70 economies for AI governance in a new global index. In terms of competitiveness, the Switzerland-based International Inst...

MTR Corporation chief executive Jeny Yeung said the quality and safety standards of the Northern Link line that it is building will not be compromised despite a significantly reduced cost forecast. Her remarks came after the government gave the gree...

Police have arrested 12 drivers suspected of providing illegal cross-border hire cars over the past two weeks, Police Commissioner Joe Chow said. Speaking after a police passing-out parade, he said the arrests were part of a series of operations tar...

Three teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of common assault after a 13-year-old student was allegedly attacked at his school on Wednesday. Police said the student at Lingnan Secondary School in Heng Fa Chuen was allegedly assaulted on campus. ...

Hong Kong is putting in place a verification regime for proxy votes at property owners’ corporation meetings, Secretary for Home and Youth Affairs Alice Mak said on Saturday. Checks requiring both parties to sign and declare are, she said, "more e...

Health authorities said on Friday that a 14-month-old baby girl with severe influenza has died, the third child flu death in Hong Kong this year. The toddler, who had been in good health, developed a fever and cough in late October and was taken to ...

Top stories for Friday, Nov 13, 2026 - Lawmakers raise concerns over the faulty lifts saga at Queen Mary Hospital. - The Housing Authority makes it easier for young families to buy a home. - A major Microsoft outage causes disruption across the wo...

The government on Friday raised Hong Kong’s economic growth forecast for 2026 to 4.8 percent from the previous forecast of 3.5 to 4.5 percent. The rise in the full-year GDP forecast came as the SAR saw strong economic expansion in the third quarte...

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...