Executive councillor and senior counsel Ronny Tong said subsidiary legislation clarifying the classification mechanism for "other offences endangering national security under the law of the HKSAR" will not affect the substantive rights of defendants....

The Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) on Thursday announced a new measure designed to combat touting through the unauthorised transfer of bookings for leisure and sports facilities. Starting July 7, SmartPLAY users who log into the My ...

Permanent residents entering and leaving the SAR through the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge will soon be able to pass the boundary in about five seconds as the Immigration Department gives its contactless e-channels an upgrade. The Immigration Depar...

Customs officers on Thursday said they arrested six people in an operation targeting counterfeit goods related to the World Cup. The 230,000 items seized – which were either cross-boundary shipments or online goods – had an estimated market val...

The University of Hong Kong medical school said it is launching a formal investigation into an intern doctor following multiple allegations of professional misconduct, including the unauthorised use of medical equipment and potential breaches of pati...

The chairman of the Legislative Council's transport panel, Ben Chan, on Thursday proposed extending mandatory monitoring systems for driver fatigue to all new private and commercial vehicles. His remarks came after Secretary for Transport and Logist...

The Hospital Authority (HA) has filed a report to police after a trainee doctor was suspected of using someone else's login credentials to browse patient records without permission. In a statement released on Wednesday, the authority confirmed the n...

A worker has died after falling from height at a construction site in Mong Kok on Wednesday. Police said they received a report received at around noon that a construction worker had fallen from a third-floor working platform while on duty at a resi...

Chief Executive John Lee on Wednesday said Hong Kong's upcoming new five-year plan would inject vitality into the city's future development. The remarks came as he announced on Tuesday that the city would launch a two-month public consultation on th...

A new drug has shown major promise on its ability to suppress advanced lung cancer into a manageable chronic disease, according to researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong's Faculty of Medicine (CU Medicine). In a global clinical trial s...

The government on Wednesday proposed declaring Hung Shing Temple in Wan Chai and Stanley Mosque as statutory monuments. The Antiquities and Monuments Office said the two historical buildings have significant heritage value and reached the “high th...

Seven people and two companies were on Wednesday charged by police and the Independent Commission Against Corruption with 25 offences linked to last year’s deadly fire in Wang Fuk Court. Police said the blaze, which tore through seven of the estat...

Secretary for Transport and Logistics Mable Chan on Wednesday said more vehicle inspection centres will be established in Guangdong to ensure all cars which are set to arrive in Hong Kong via a soon-to-be-expanded scheme are roadworthy. Starting Jul...

Chief Secretary Eric Chan said on Wednesday the government would transform Hong Kong into a world-class tourist destination, amid solid growth for inbound tourism this year. Chan also pledged to develop the SAR into an East-meets-West centre for int...

Civil service chief Ingrid Yeung on Wednesday said a pay trend survey that the government refers to in deciding a final pay rise was crucial in its decision-making process, even though the Executive Council's latest proposal fell short of the indicat...

The government announced that a new phase of a food coupon programme for the elderly was rolled out from Tuesday, to mark the upcoming 29th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong SAR. Chief Secretary Eric Chan said the fifth phase of the ...

The Executive Council on Tuesday endorsed subsidiary legislation that gives the chief executive the power to issue a certificate for "other offences endangering national security under the law of the HKSAR". The Safeguarding National Security (Proce...

Lawmaker and deputy chairman of Legco’s panel on public service, Nixie Lam, on Tuesday welcomed the proposed two percent pay rise for the city’s 170,000 civil servants, describing the approach as cautious and balanced. She said the proposed pay...

A veteran filmmaker on Tuesday was sentenced to five months imprisonment for insider trading at West Kowloon Magistracy. Raymond Wong was found guilty in May for obtaining price-sensitive information — at a company he chaired in 2017 — that was ...

The Chief Executive-in-Council proposed a two percent across-the-board pay increase for the city’s 170,000 civil servants on Tuesday, backdated to April 1. If approved by the Legislative Council, the pay rise will cost about HK$6 billion extra. S...