Transport secretary Mable Chan on Friday announced that the government would remove legal provisions requiring bus passengers to put on seatbelts. She acknowledged there were shortcomings in the law, saying that it was unable to reflect the intent ...

China said on Friday it would take "necessary measures" to protect the interests of Chinese companies after a ruling by Panama's top court annulled a concession allowing a subsidiary of CK Hutchison to operate ports at the strategic Panama Canal. Fo...

Secretary for Security Chris Tang said on Friday that police officers would mainly issue advice or warnings to passengers failing to comply with the new seatbelt mandate on buses – for now. Speaking to the Legislative Council’s security panel, h...

The Antiquities Authority on Friday declared the Main Building of Old Tsan Yuk Maternity Hospital and Kwong Fook Tsz as monuments. The hospital at Western Street in Sai Ying Pun that opened in 1922 offered maternity services for Chinese women and tr...

Police are investigating a daylight robbery in Sheung Wan on Friday morning, in which two Japanese men were robbed of 58 million yen, or almost HK$3 million. Officers said they received reports at around 9.47am that the two victims were targetted w...

The privacy watchdog on Friday urged workers to verify the identity of recruiters and intermediaries when they come across job-vacancy advertisements online. This came as the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data received 42 complaint...

Three people will appear at West Kowloon Magistrates Courts on Friday, charged with trafficking in dangerous drugs. The charges come after customs officers on Wednesday seized about 21 kilos of suspected cannabis buds at Hong Kong International Air...

A severely decomposed whale carcass has been found on the shores of Sai Kung. The Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department on Thursday said it had received a report in the morning about the discovery of a suspected whale carcass in Ham Tin...

A passenger was stuck on a Citybus after failing to unfasten the seatbelt to alight, with bus operator saying a piece of aluminium foil found inside the buckle was to blame. The man, 40, was trying to get off a 795X Citybus bound for So Uk near Sham...

Hong Kong has to overcome obstacles and forge its own path in 2026, Chief Executive John Lee said on Thursday, following a year filled with events of far-reaching significance to the city's development. At a function announcing the top 10 events rel...

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) urged construction workers to stay vigilant against fraudulent recruitment ads as Chinese New Year approaches. In the past two weeks, the PCPD received 42 complaints from workers who sh...

Sources on Thursday said that a cleaning company's forewoman was arrested on suspicion of animal cruelty, following the deaths of more than a hundred fish in a pond in Tseung Kwan O. The fish were found dead on Monday in a park in King Lam Estate, ...

Customs officers on Thursday said they seized smuggled goods worth more than HK$56 million last week on a vessel at Black Point near Tuen Mun. Officers said after carrying out the appropriate analysis and risk assessment, the vessel departing from ...

A study by accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) found only 16 percent of the city's employees intend to change jobs over the next 12 months — a more than 50 percent drop year-on-year. Respondents cited job security concerns as the reason...

The MTR reminded Tuen Ma Line passengers that they will have to change trains when passing through Hung Hom station on Sunday, when the railway operator carries out track modification works. Its head of Line Group Management for the Tuen Ma Line, Da...

The Transport Department on Thursday said it might extend the promotional period for mandatory seatbelt law for public buses if that's deemed necessary, after the new legislation sparked much debate. The department's safety director, Stella Lee, sa...

Two men charged with smuggling HK$6.1 million worth of suspected silver to the mainland will appear in court on Thursday morning. The pair, aged 40 and 46, were arrested at the Heung Yuen Wai Boundary Control Point on Tuesday, as they tried to make ...

Police said they are investigating a case of criminal damage after a seatbelt was reportedly cut on a Kowloon Motor Bus (KMB) on Wednesday. Officers received a report at around 5pm concerning the damaged seatbelt on a KMB bus operating route 86K. ...

The city's new mandate requiring seatbelts to be worn on buses and minibuses will focus on education and persuasion during the initial adaptation period, Secretary for Transport and Logistics Mable Chan said. The stricter regulations came into effec...

A think tank on Wednesday said government departments should divide their workload more effectively to facilitate communication with mainland enterprises hoping to go global through Hong Kong. According to Our Hong Kong Foundation (OHKF), more than...