A traffic accident in Ngau Tau Kok on Wednesday afternoon left one person dead and four others injured, after a taxi mounted the pavement and crashed into a flower planter. Police said the incident happened close to 2pm, when the driver of a taxi tr...

Two lawmakers on Wednesday said more university subsidies and high-tech internship opportunities are needed, as the city's labour market undergoes a structural shift amid the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence. It comes after data release...

Researchers behind the city’s first home-grown scientific payload deployed at the Tiangong Space Station on Wednesday said the device will be in orbit for at least two years to track the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions. Developed by researcher...

Hong Kong's flagship carrier, Cathay Pacific, on Wednesday said Guy Bradley would take over as chairman starting immediately. He succeeds Patrick Healy who retires after more than three decades of service to the Swire Group. Bradley, who's also th...

Residents of Wang Chi House gathered early on Wednesday morning in Tai Po, as the sole block that was untouched by last November’s fire opened its doors for a second time, allowing residents to retrieve their personal belongings. Over the next fiv...

A 50-percent toll waiver for all commercial vehicles will come to effect from May 17, the inter-departmental task force on monitoring fuel supply announced on Wednesday. All buses, goods vehicles, light buses and taxies using all government tolled t...

It is understood that HK$127 million will be refunded to Wang Fuk Court homeowners after renovation works there were cut short by last November’s deadly inferno. That would mean homeowners who have paid six instalments of the maintenance fee are ...

Secretary for Transport and Logistics Mable Chan on Tuesday said vehicles providing ride-hailing services could have their permits revoked in future if they fail to meet requirements. Chan also said the government will conduct an annual review of pe...

Two women have been arrested on suspicion of animal cruelty after a puppy was dumped in a rubbish bin in Mong Kok. The three-month-old golden retriever, discovered on May 9 in an alley behind Hak Po Street, was later put down after being diagnosed ...

Police on Tuesday said they have received two requests for assistance in relation to a cyber attack on the global education platform Canvas. Chief Superintendent Raymond Lam said one report was filed by a local institution. The other allegedly inv...

Power giant CLP said on Tuesday that around 5,700 households in Tsing Yi experienced an outage on Monday night due to a supply system fault. The incident at 11.51pm left residents of Ching Wah Court and Cheung Hong Estate without electricity. Power...

Ten people were injured in a collision between a truck and a double-decker bus in Sau Mau Ping early on Tuesday. Police were alerted at around 6.20am to the incident, which saw the truck end up on its side after a collision with the KMB bus outside ...

The chairman of the Legislative Council's transport panel, Ben Chan, on Tuesday said the government should initially cap the number of ride-hailing permits to around 8,000 when it launches a new regulatory regime later this year. In a submission to...

The government said it would weigh public travel demand, user experience, road capacity and the broader public transport ecosystem when deciding how many ride-hailing permits will be issued. In a submission to Legco, the Transport and Logistics Bure...

A Malaysia Airlines passenger flight bound for Kuala Lumpur suffered a tyre burst during takeoff at Hong Kong International Airport on Monday. No injuries were reported. The Airport Authority said in a statement that the takeoff for flight MH079 on...

Chief Executive John Lee on Monday said Hong Kong's status as a leading hub for scientific innovation is "unrivalled" in Asia as the city rolls out a series of measures to transform into a global medical innovation centre. The remarks came as he del...

Hong Kong recorded 257 landslide reports last year, higher than the recent annual average of 200, the government revealed on Monday. The Civil Engineering and Development Department added that while 24 landslides were considered large-scale, none r...

Cyber-security officials on Monday called on school and universities, wherever possible, to temporarily stop using the online learning platform Canvas, which was recently the target of a cyber-attack. According to the software developer Instructure,...

The Hospital Authority (HA) said on Monday that the SAR’s major public healthcare reform has achieved its goal of reallocating resources to better serve patients. Since the start of the year, only critical and emergency patients at accident and em...

A lawmaker who sits on the legislature's housing panel on Monday said incorporating elderly-friendly designs into Housing Society projects is an effective way to use its resources. His remarks came after the Housing Society announced it would no lon...