The government said more than 1,800 civil servants resigned in the last financial year – the highest figure since 2006. In a document submitted to the Legislative Council, the Civil Service Bureau said those who quit between April 2020 and March ...

The government has to do a better job managing and maintaining public toilets, Ombudsman Winnie Chiu said on Thursday, noting that complaints about the facilities weren’t even analysed until last year. Chiu’s office said the Food and Environment...

Two women were on Thursday found guilty of offering gifts to Sham Shui Po residents in exchange for votes for the DAB in a 2018 Legco by-election. West Kowloon Magistracy heard that Deng Yi-mei, 42, and Wong Wai-ha, 52, were volunteers of a residen...

Green groups said on Thursday that giving people money to return plastic bottles will encourage Hongkongers to recycle more, but only if the government increases the amount of rebate planned. While officials are proposing that people receive 10 cent...

The Ombudsman, Winnie Chiu, on Thursday criticised the effectiveness of government inspections on lifts and escalators, pointing out that 'surprise' checks conducted by the Electrical and Mechanical Services Department (EMSD) were not surprising at a...

More evidence has emerged to prove that a man who flew in from Dubai in March contracted a mutant strain of coronavirus at a quarantine hotel in Hong Kong. The Indian man tested negative for the virus before he was released from a 21-day quarantine...

Debate swirled on Thursday over the "massage-gate" scandal engulfing the Hong Kong police, with politicians, scholars and the public still struggling to work out how serious the affair is. The force's director of national security, Frederic Choi, is...

The bar industry on Thursday said it wants the government to remove a requirement for customers and staff to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, saying it's hurting business. Cat Hou, the chairwoman of the Bartenders and Mixologists Union, said ...

The government is extending social distancing measures currently in place for another two weeks. In a statement issued early on Thursday, the Food and Health Bureau said the government had relaxed social distancing measures last month, introducing a...

Nethersole Hospital said a 79-year-old patient died one day after tissue was found in his throat. The hospital in Tai Po said the chronically ill patient had been in stable condition after he was admitted on Friday, until he suffered a cardiac arre...

Research out of the Chinese University and the Transgender Resources Centre suggests more than half of Hong Kong’s transgender population has experienced some form of discrimination in the past 12 months, with experts saying authorities need to tak...

The Legislative Council has approved a bill adding district councillors to a growing list of Hongkongers obliged to swear allegiance to the government. Any councillors that refuse to make the pledge in the coming weeks, as well as those found to be...

A police inspector told an inquest looking into the death of a protester who fell from the Pacific Place shopping mall in 2019 that when he tried to approach the 35-year-old man, he pointed a half-exposed box cutter towards his own chin. Marco Leung...

Commerce Secretary Edward Yau said on Wednesday that Hong Kong remains an attractive place for foreign firms to do business, even though a survey suggests many expats are losing interest in the city. Yau made the comment after the American Chamber ...

Justice Johnson Lam, a vice-president of the Court of Appeal, is set to become a permanent judge of the city’s top court – filling a position that has been vacant for the past four months. Justice Lam’s appointment to the Court of Final Appeal...

A police monitor group said on Wednesday that the force must be "embarrassed" that one of its top national security officers has reportedly been caught up in a raid on an unlicensed massage parlour. Sources told RTHK that senior assistant commission...

The head of Hong Kong’s sports school has called on the government to consider purchasing the broadcasting rights to future Olympics, after officials made the “unprecedented” decision to do so for the upcoming Tokyo games. Despite the price ta...

RTHK understands that a senior police officer in the force's new national security department has been placed on leave pending investigation for alleged misconduct. Sources say Frederic Choi, a senior assistant commissioner who holds the rank of dir...

The testing firm, BGI, said on Tuesday it's offering fewer Covid-19 tests for now after another yet blunder, this time involving wrong SMS messages sent to people who were tested. The hiccup involved 14 people who gave saliva samples at a public cli...

The government is proposing to introduce laws to curb doxxing, with offenders facing a maximum fine of HK$1 million and imprisonment of up to five years. Officials have been considering new laws to tackle privacy infringement with police officers an...