The number of new Covid-19 infections declined for the third day running on Wednesday to a two-and-a-half-month low, though health officials cautioned that the local outbreak has yet to come under control. All 19 new Covid cases reported were locall...

Struggling restaurant and bar owners on Wednesday urged the government to ease social-distancing measures on the coronavirus-ravaged catering industry and allow them to expand their services over the Lunar New Year holidays. At the moment, bars have...

Police have arrested three men for allegedly taking part in an illegal assembly during a protest against the government's "Lantau Tomorrow" project on October 14, 2018. The suspects are aged between 18 and 28, and one of them is also alleged to hav...

Pro-establishment lawmakers on Wednesday urged the administration to do more to push back against US sanctions imposed on Chief Executive Carrie Lam and a number of local officials, with one suggesting that the Monetary Authority should order banks t...

The government has “strongly encouraged” all its staff to use its “LeaveHomeSafe” app when they go to work. The app allows users to record their whereabouts and notifies them if they have visited a place which is subsequently linked to a Cov...

Online media HK01 on Wednesday sacked more than 40 workers, representing five percent of its overall workers. It did not give further details, saying only that both operational and back-office staff were affected. In an internal memo, the firm said...

The administration on Wednesday said it has no plan to privatise RTHK despite worries that its dual roles as a public broadcaster and a government department are in conflict with each other. The statement was made in writing by commerce minister Ed...

A district councillor on Wednesday urged the government not to overreact to people who fail to open their doors to inspectors during coronavirus lockdowns, after hundreds of households again kept their doors shut as authorities went around to ask the...

Grassroot workers and unions have lashed out at the government's decision to freeze the minimum wage, with callers to an RTHK programme describing the move as "disgusting" and likening it to "stealing from the bowl of a beggar". Officials announced...

The government had found no new coronavirus cases from its latest overnight lockdowns after testing more than 2,100 people. Seventeen buildings in Sham Shui Po, as well as parts of Jordan and Tin Shui Wai were cordoned-off on Tuesday night for manda...

The government on Wednesday gazetted further measures to strengthen compulsory testing for close contacts of confirmed Covid-19 cases. In a statement, the government said all household members of close contacts would now be ordered to take a Covid t...

Police said they are investigating an incident in which an officer opened fire on a private car on Chung Nga Road in Tai Po late on Tuesday. They said the incident took place just before midnight on Tuesday near Heng Tai House at Fu Heng Estate. Of...

The Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Tuesday visited the locked-down area of Sham Shui Po, where residents are currently being tested for Covid-19 as the government tries to break transmission of the virus. Lam was accompanied by the health secretary,...

The government announced multiple 'ambush-style' lockdowns for a second night running, as it brushed aside questions over the efficacy of the tactic in its quest to drive the number of Covid-19 cases down to zero. Residents of buildings in Sham Shui...

Police Commissioner Chris Tang has outlined safeguarding national security as the force’s top priority this year, saying officials will step up intelligence gathering to try to stamp out those threats. Speaking at a press conference, Tang said th...

Health officials on Tuesday ordered 80 staff at a clothing shop in Mong Kok to undergo Covid-19 tests after three employees tested positive. Authorities said the three staff members of Uniqlo in Langham Place had a private gathering with eight other...

Hong Kong's minimum wage has been frozen for the first time since its implementation in 2011, and the welfare minister denied it's unfair to grassroots workers. Secretary for Labour and Welfare Law Chi-kwong announced on Tuesday that the city's mini...

A Democratic Party district councillor was on Tuesday disqualified after the High Court ruled that he was unduly elected. Hung Chun-hin was representing the Tsui Ping constituency of Kwun Tong District Council, after beating the then incumbent, Che...

Police Commissioner Chris Tang on Tuesday dismissed a pro-establishment lawmaker's suggestion that anti-government protesters were drugged by criminals to get them to take part in the social unrest of 2019, but agreed that some of them acted like the...

A temporary hospital on Lantau for Covid-19 patients will open on the 26th of this month. Members of the media were on Tuesday given a tour of the North Lantau Hospital Hong Kong Infection Control Centre, near the AsiaWorld-Expo, prior to its offici...