Secretary for Labour and Welfare Chris Sun said on Saturday the 2.35 percent increase in the minimum wage for foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong is a reasonable adjustment. His remarks came after the government announced on Friday that the minim...

Hong Kong, China's sailing squad have bagged two gold, two silver and a bronze medal at the Asian Games on Saturday. In the girls' windsurfing iQFoil event, Cheung Tsz-yuet sailed to gold by finishing with nine net points and first in a majority of ...

Coleman Wong will be eagerly checking his phone for a message from tennis great Rafael Nadal after the Hong Kong, China player won gold at the Asian Games on Saturday and, with it, a place at the Olympics. Wong, in beating Wu Yibing 6-2, 6-4, joins ...

Secretary for Transport and Logistics Mable Chan has welcomed the 11 Skies project handover and expressed hope that the Airport Authority can transform the mega complex into a high-end tourism destination. Her comments came after the Airport Author...

Secretary for Housing Winnie Ho said on Saturday that most subdivided unit homeowners have filed applications for recognition under the Basic Housing Unit regime since registration opened in March. Speaking on a Commercial Radio programme, Ho said t...

Hong Kong, China tennis star Coleman Wong has won gold in the men's singles at the Asian Games in Nagoya, beating the national team's Wu Yibing in straight sets. Wong’s victory was also the SAR's first-ever medal in a tennis singles event. The 22...

Police have urged residents to stay alert to new tactics used by scammers posing as customer service agents, including a technique that effectively allows scammers to use victim's credit cards remotely. The force said around 5,000 scam cases between...

Heavy rain hit Hong Kong on Saturday morning. At one point, around 5 am, the Observatory considered a red rainstorm warning before sticking with the amber warning it had issued an hour earlier. The Observatory said Hong Kong was seeing localised hea...

An off-duty principal ambulanceman has died and another has been injured following an abseiling accident at Kowloon Peak, also known as Fei Ngo Shan. The Fire Services Department (FSD) on Friday said it was alerted at around 2pm that a man had falle...

Customs officers have arrested a 61-year-old company director over the abrupt closure of yoga chain Hotstone Yoga. The man was arrested on suspicion of “wrongly accepting payment” under the Trade Descriptions Ordinance. Customs said it receive...

Top stories for Friday, Oct 2, 2026 - John Lee pledges stronger Greater Bay Area integration. - A Wan Chai temple and a prison mosque are declared monuments. - Hong Kong sail to two golds and a silver at the Asian Games.

The Airport Authority (AA) says 11 Skies will be renamed, repositioned and integrated into Skytopia – a HK$100 billion mega project aimed at transforming the area near the airport into an international entertainment hub. Speaking to the press, ...

The government announced on Friday that the minimum wage for foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong will rise from HK$5,100 to HK$5,220 per month – an increase of 2.35 percent. The new wage level will apply to all contracts signed on or after Octo...

The High Court on Friday heard that the murder of celebrity Abby Choi was premeditated. The three defendants – Choi’s ex-husband Kwong Kong-chi, her former brother-in-law Kwong Kong-kit and her former father-in-law Kwong Kau – were charged wit...

Hong Kong, China cyclist Ceci Lee added another medal to her Asian Games campaign on Friday, taking bronze in the women’s omnium. Lee finished with 124 points, nine behind Kazakhstan’s Rinata Sultanova, who took silver. Yumi Kajihara of host nat...

Hong Kong’s retail performance in August grew 5.6 percent year-on-year to HK$32.1 billion, according to figures released by the Census and Statistics Department on Friday. This marked the 16th straight month of expansion. Taking the first eight m...

Hong Kong, China tennis pair Eudice Chong and Cody Wong settled for bronze in the women’s doubles on Friday after a straight-sets loss against Chan Hao-ching and Wu Fang-hsien of Chinese Taipei. The SAR duo had not dropped a single set in their pr...

Hong Kong, China’s women’s squash team fell short of reclaiming gold at the Asian Games in Japan, losing 2-1 to reigning champions Malaysia in a repeat of the final in Hangzhou three years ago. The SAR trailed the best-of-three tie after Ho Tze-...

Chief Executive John Lee on Friday pledged to keep driving coordinated development in the Greater Bay Area, boosting tech cooperation, infrastructure links and cross-border rules alignment. Speaking in a video address at the 10th Global Greater Bay...

A marketing expert suggested on Friday that the amount of prepayments should be taken into consideration in deciding whether service contracts should be subject to cooling-off periods. The suggestion by Kenneth Kwong of the Hang Seng University's De...