Authorities say a provisional civil service academy will be completed within this year, and it will be tasked with strengthening government workers' knowledge of national affairs as well as the SAR’s constitutional order. In a report submitted to...

About 80 residents and staff of a care home for the disabled in Kwun Tong have been sent to a quarantine centre after one resident was confirmed to have Covid-19 and two workers tested preliminary positive for the virus. Officials found that one of ...

A survey of more than 300 secondary school principals shows that most of them are concerned over the requirement for teachers to get regular coronavirus tests, and half of them are worried a resumption of face-to-face classes will increase the risk o...

The police said on Tuesday that they had arrested two men after finding 23 kilogrammes of bomb-making chemicals, foiling a potential "bloody attack" around Lunar New Year. The men, aged 62 and 42, were suspected of conspiracy to manufacture explosi...

Some government-run outdoor sports venues reopened on Tuesday – many weeks after the latest closures due to the pandemic – with users obliged to check-in at the venues either with the government's tracing app, or by handing over their contact det...

Disgraced former official Wilson Fung has failed to overturn his conviction for misconduct in public office at the Court of Appeal, as the court struck down his bid for an appeal on Tuesday. Having already finished serving his nine-month prison sent...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday that Hong Kong is only going by the book when disallowing foreign consulates from offering protection to people with dual citizenship here. This comes after the British consulate said it may not be able to ...

An infectious disease expert on Tuesday said it was too strict of the authorities to order around 130 students at a secondary school to be sent to a quarantine centre after two fellow pupils caught Covid-19. Dr Wilson Lam, the vice-president of Hong...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam says some businesses that were ordered to close as part of social distancing will be allowed to reopen after the Lunar New Year holiday, now that the number of new coronavirus cases is finally starting to come down. She d...

The Court of Final Appeal on Tuesday upheld a government challenge to a lower court's decision to grant bail to the media tycoon Jimmy Lai as he awaits trial on a charge of colluding with foreign forces under the national security law. The case was ...

Overnight "ambush-style" lockdowns in areas of Jordan and Sham Shui Po on Monday saw more than 1,500 people tested for Covid-19 but no new cases, officials said on Tuesday morning. Officials allowed people who could show a negative test result to le...

The Department of Justice has decided against using a jury for the first trial under the SAR's national security law, a legal source with direct knowledge of the case told the AFP new agency on Monday. Secretary for Justice Teresa Cheng informed the...

The government continued its overnight, ambush-style lockdowns for the ninth straight evening on Monday, sealing off two residential buildings in Jordan and Sham Shui Po as residents get tested for Covid-19. Coronavirus cases have been confirmed am...

The SAR government on Monday unveiled a new plan for waste reduction – setting a target to slash the amount of rubbish thrown out per person by 40 to 45 percent before 2035. As part of efforts to cut Hong Kong's reliance on landfills, the administ...

Authorities began partially evacuating a residential building in Quarry Bay on Monday after an overnight lockdown found three Covid-19 carriers, on top of an earlier handful of cases there. After inspecting Wai Lee Building in the afternoon, Univers...

The financial secretary has been urged to lower the salaries tax rate and offer relief to both homebuyers and tenants in his upcoming budget proposal as part of a series of sweeteners amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The Taxation Institute proposed on Mo...

Authorities on Monday ordered around 130 students at a secondary school in Shau Kei Wan to be sent to a quarantine centre after two fellow pupils came down with Covid-19. The two infected students at Shau Kei Wan Government Secondary School live in...

The case of eight pro-democracy activists being prosecuted over an unauthorised protest on July 1 last year is being transferred to the District Court. The defendants – former lawmakers Wu Chi-wai, Chu Hoi-dick and Leung Kwok-hung; Figo Chan of th...

The Secretary for Labour and Welfare, Law Chi-kwong, on Monday rejected legislators' demands to further relax the threshold for a subsidy for low-income families. The government has proposed reducing the minimum working hour requirements for the bas...

Police say they believe they have busted a triad-controlled gambling and drug-dealing syndicate after arresting 81 people in more than a dozen suspected gambling dens on Hong Kong Island. Officers alleged on Monday that the operators of these venue...