The Hong Kong Council for Social Service is calling on the government to beef up its support for the unemployed, saying many of those now out of work were previously on middle incomes and this group does not get enough help under Hong Kong’s existi...

Education secretary Kevin Yeung on Sunday denied that the Education Bureau was looking to pressure teachers through more school visits, once a revamped Liberal Studies curriculum was in place. He told a TV programme that the government only wanted ...

Police have seized HK$63 million worth of cannabis buds in Mai Po, the second biggest seizure of the drug in Hong Kong. Officers found 280 kg of the drug and arrested a 41-year-old man when they raided a warehouse on Friday. The man, who's believ...

Food and Health Secretary Sophia Chan on Sunday defended the government's ambush lockdown policy, saying strict action was needed to rid the SAR of Covid-19 - especially now that cases were falling. Chan told a radio programme that 15 cases had so ...

Labour and Welfare Secretary, Law Chi-kwong, says last Thursday's tweaking by the government of two important welfare programmes will help the jobless, or those on low incomes, get through the pandemic. Speaking on Letter to Hong Kong, Law said the...

Executive Councillor Lam Ching-choi revealed on Saturday that elderly residents from 10 larger scale care homes will be among the first groups of people to receive coronavirus inoculations. Lam, who’s also a member of the government’s vaccinati...

The government imposed a lockdown on two separate residential buildings in To Kwa Wan and Tuen Mun on Saturday night. The authorities declared Block 9 of Gold Coast a “restricted zone” at about 8.30pm, and Wah Fat Building at Ma Hang Chung Road...

Virus control measures have been brought in on the first day of the annual Lunar New Year fairs, with temperature sensors and crowd control indicators similar in appearance to traffic lights set up at the entrances of the 15 fair venues. The public a...

The government further tightened its mandatory testing criteria on Saturday, as health officials reported 19 new coronavirus cases. With immediate effect, residential buildings will be subject to a mandatory testing order if there is one new corona...

A 37-year-old policeman died on Saturday after apparently falling ill in his office at police headquarters in Wan Chai. Police said when another officer went to work this morning, he found his colleague lying unconscious on a folding bed at around ...

The Secretary for Justice, Teresa Cheng, has accused some media - which she didn't name - of using biased language to describe the appeals or sentencing reviews her department has made. She said last year, there were 12 sentencing review application...

The MTR's new nine-carriage trains on the East Rail Line began running on Saturday, as enthusiasts celebrated their introduction. The first train departed from Shatin station at 5:40 am and went to Hung Hom. The newly introduced train was welcome...

The Police Commissioner Chris Tang on Saturday said the introduction of the national security law won't change the way his force vets public gathering applications such as the June Fourth candlelight vigil - but he noted that national security has al...

Organisers of the annual June the Fourth candlelight vigil had briefly defied the authorities’ ban and kept hosting a Lunar New Year flower stall at Victoria Park. Minutes into Saturday, the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) termina...

Overnight lockdowns at a private estate in Yuen Long and a public housing block in Ma On Shan were completed on Saturday morning - again with nobody testing positive. The lockdown orders for both blocks of Fu Loy Garden on Ma Wang Road in Yuen Long ...

Infectious disease expert Yuen Kwok-yung on Friday expressed support for the government’s ambush-style lockdowns, even though they've identified only a handful of Covid-19 cases. Yuen, who's a government advisor on the pandemic, said some people m...

The government has decided to exempt mainland drugmaker Sinovac from having to publish data from late-stage clinical trials in a medical journal, before a panel of experts decides whether to recommend its coronavirus vaccine for use here, after the f...

Health authorities on Friday said they will expand a free Covid-19 testing programme to cover security guards, while extending the programme for construction workers and foreign domestic helpers until the end of February. A spokesman for the Food an...

A private estate in Yuen Long and a public housing block in Ma On Shan were put on lockdown on Friday evening, the latest residential buildings to be sealed off in the government's ambush-style operations aimed at stopping the spread of the coronavir...

Health officials said on Friday that the suspected coronavirus case the authorities found during their latest ambush lockdowns turned out to be a recovered Covid patient. Thursday night saw buildings in Yau Ma Tei and Mong Kok sealed off as tests we...