A Tourism Board promotion offering discounts for staycations at local hotels has been welcomed by the industry, though a representative said on Friday the promotion should be extended beyond its May deadline. Hong Kong residents who spend more than ...

Taiwan premier Su Tseng-chang has accused some of the island’s artistes of being selfish for expressing support for cotton made in Xinjiang, or cutting ties with companies which have voiced concerns about reports of forced labour in the region. D...

A District Court judge on Friday set trial dates more than two years away for a case involving 28 people accused of rioting during a lunch hour anti-government protest in Central. The defendants – including actors, social workers, students, teache...

More students will be allowed to go back to school and resume face-to-face classes after the Easter holiday in April, the government announced on Friday, as the number of new coronavirus infections remains low in the territory. The Covid-19 pandemic...

Hong Kong could be nearing the end of its latest wave of Covid-19 infections, a government adviser on the pandemic said on Friday, paving the way for a further easing of strict social distancing restrictions. Chinese University respiratory disease e...

A co-chairman of the Medical Association's advisory committee on communicable diseases says he can't understand why the authorities threw away shots of BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine that had defective packaging, saying this must have hampered an inv...

The government is reportedly considering requiring local tour staff and tour-goers to be vaccinated against Covid or tested for the virus, if they want to join tours once they resume. As the epidemic eases, representatives from the tourism sector m...

As China imposed a sweeping national security law in Hong Kong last year after massive protests, residents of the city moved tens of billions of dollars across the globe to Canada, where thousands are hoping to forge a new future. Capital flows out ...

The Hong Kong government on Thursday confirmed a Reuters report that it had told 14 countries to stop accepting a British travel document that many of its young people use to apply for working holiday visas in Europe, North America and parts of Asia....

A 59-year-old man died on Thursday, a week after getting the BioNTech coronavirus jab. He was found unconscious by hikers in Sai Kung and was sent by the Government Flying Service to Eastern Hospital where he was pronounced dead. The Department of ...

The Hospital Authority said on Thursday that it's looking to relax visiting arrangements in the coming weeks, now that the Covid situation has stabilised and the vaccination rate is going up. The authority's Chief Executive, Tony Ko, said it's plan...

Sources have told RTHK that the government will allow more students to resume face-to-face classes after the Easter holiday, as Hong Kong’s coronavirus situation eases further. Currently, only one third of pupils are allowed to attend in-person cl...

Environmental researchers said on Thursday that a government ban on trawling in 2012 has helped to restore marine life in local waters, but more needs to be done to boost biodiversity. For the past two years, scholars from two local universities hav...

A concern group said on Thursday that the family of one of the Hongkongers released from a mainland prison this week have been unable to trace his whereabouts since he was brought back to the SAR and charged under the national security law. Andy Li...

The judge presiding over a trial of eight men charged with rioting during the Yuen Long mob attack in 2019 has questioned a defendant’s claim that he was only there because he had heard a group of people intended to attack an ancestral hall in the ...

A doctor taking part in the government’s coronavirus vaccination programme has admitted that he had given Sinovac shots to mainlanders without Hong Kong identity cards. The government says holders of so-called two-way permits are not eligible for...

Six of the eight Hong Kong young people released from a mainland prison and handed over to the SAR authorities this week have refused lawyers appointed for them by their families, according to a concern group. The Save 12 Hong Kong Youths Concern Gr...

The Hong Kong government has told some foreign consulates to stop accepting the British National (Overseas) passport when people apply for visas, diplomats say. In a move seen by some envoys as a diplomatic affront, the government informed about a ...

A barista has been found guilty of arson and rioting in relation to an anti-government protest in Mong Kok in 2019, where objects were thrown and cardboard set on fire. Siu Lok-ting, 26, denied that she was one of the people captured in video footag...

Secondary school students taking public examinations from next month will receive their results in an SMS text message – one of a number of special arrangements education authorities are taking to mitigate the impact of the ongoing coronavirus pand...