Hong Kong’s 2026 Population Census will adopt a new survey format, with the data collection process extended from the traditional one-and-a-half months to a full year and only about one-tenth of households required to complete a detailed long form ...

Police on Friday said a syndicate suspected of using fake IDs to impersonate victims and withdraw money from their eMPF accounts had been busted. Five men, aged between 28 and 65, were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and money launder...

A Tai Po district councillor on Friday welcomed the government's announcement of an annual subsidy for Wang Fuk Court homeowners over the next two years as well as a one-off relocation subsidy for each affected household. Speaking on an RTHK radio p...

A senior firefighter who lost his life battling last month’s deadly blaze at Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po was laid to rest on Friday with full honours. The funeral service for the late Ho Wai-ho was held at the Universal Funeral Parlour in Hung Hom, a...

Home and youth affairs chief Alice Mak on Friday said the government is exercising caution when using the Tai Po fire fund, which stands at about HK$3.8 billion. Mak made the remarks on an RTHK programme after the latest announcement that Wang Fuk C...

Police have arrested a taxi driver following a fatal traffic accident in Central on Thursday night. Officers said the 62-year-old man was driving along Caine Road when he reportedly knocked down a pedestrian near Elgin Street at around 9pm. Su...

A vigil was held on Thursday at the Universal Funeral Parlour in Hung Hom for firefighter Ho Wai-ho, who died while tackling last month's deadly blaze at Tai Po's Wang Fuk Court. In the centre of the mourning hall, a plaque read “a noble spirit sh...

The HKSAR government on Thursday expressed its strong disapproval and objection to the slanders and smears by the G7, including Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the US, as well as the High Representative of the European Union, after...

The Housing Authority said on Thursday that some 8,300 subsidised flats under the Home Ownership Scheme (HOS) will be made available for applications in the second quarter of next year. The units will be up for grabs at the same time as a similar a...

The government announced on Thursday it would provide homeowners of the devastating Wang Fuk Court fire with an annual subsidy of HK$150,000 over the next two years. The subsidy will be paid in installments of HK$75,000 every half year to each affe...

The Hong Kong Bar Association’s chairman, Jose Antonio Maurellet, on Thursday said its delegation had shared with Beijing officials why maintaining the rule of law and judicial independence in Hong Kong is essential. Maurellet was speaking on the ...

Hong Kong on Thursday unveiled its first blueprint for Chinese medicine development, aimed at enhancing healthcare quality and establishing the SAR as a "global bridgehead" for the field. The blueprint outlines a vision across five key domains, sett...

Chief Executive John Lee on Thursday said Hong Kong had taken a major step forward in its goal to become Asia's first aircraft recycling and parts trading centre by setting up an aircraft engineering training centre. The centre, run by the Airport A...

More than 40 homeowners from Fairview Park in Yuen Long petitioned the Home Affairs Department on Thursday, saying their estate had been left in a legal vacuum as the result of a loophole in the Building Management Ordinance. The owners, part of a r...

A dump truck on Thursday overturned in Tai Kok Tsui, disrupting traffic nearby. Police received a report at about 1pm that the truck flipped on its side on Hoi Wang Road. Officers said the driver suffered minor injuries and received treatment by p...

The government on Thursday held an exchange session with lawmakers-elect that focused on the executive-legislative relationship and SAR's economic development ahead of the start of the new Legislative Council term. Of the 70 legislators-elect who we...

Police have arrested a man in connection with a daytime robbery in which one billion yen, or approximately HK$50 million, was allegedly stolen outside a bank in Sheung Wan. The incident occurred on Thursday morning when two employees of a currency e...

The Transport Department on Thursday said it had received about 700 applications under the Southbound Travel Scheme, which allows Guangdong cars to enter Hong Kong's urban areas from next Tuesday. A government spokesman said vehicle and road safety...

Standing five storeys tall, Kam Tin's giant bamboo theatre is one of the top attractions at the Jiao Festival. Guinness World Records recently called the colossal structure the world's largest temporary bamboo altar, which serves as the centrepiece ...

An investigation by the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has affirmed that a paper by a PhD student contained non-existent references generated by artificial intelligence. The findings, announced by the university on Wednesday, also prompted the corres...