As the coronavirus vaccination programme makes Hong Kong people more conscious of their health, a private cardiologist says it's led to a jump in the number of people discovering they have heart problems they weren't aware of. Dr Godwin Leung said ...

Hong Kong people could soon be able to go on cruises again, but only if they are fully vaccinated and as long as the ships don't actually go anywhere in particular. Commerce Secretary Edward Yau said on Monday that "cruises to nowhere" would allow p...

Cathay Pacific has won a contract to provide meals at the Penny's Bay quarantine camp, a lawmaker said on Monday, following a scandal over the quality of food provided there by a government contractor. Some of those held at the centre recently compl...

The medical director of a vaccination centre in Jordan says he has ordered staff to get inoculated themselves, after a nurse there was listed as a preliminary positive case on Sunday. Samuel Kwok, who is in charge of vaccinations at the Kwun Chung ...

The Hong Kong government was urged on Monday to make better use of information from the mainland's tracking tools so it can pinpoint exactly where any Covid patients from across the border had recently been. At the weekend, the administration revers...

A man was jailed for two years and 10 months on Monday after pleading guilty to rioting during a protest in February last year. Nou Jeffrey, 21, who is a former Hong Kong Kabaddi team member, was part of a group of people who threw objects at a poli...

Executive councillor Jeffrey Lam says the government should seek to set up “business travel bubbles” with Greater Bay cities as an incentive for people to receive the Covid-19 vaccines. Speaking on an RTHK programme on Monday, Lam said the gover...

Roundtable lawmaker Michael Tien has called on the government to step up testing at the border – including checking travellers for Covid-19 antibodies – to encourage Shenzhen authorities to drop travel restrictions. Speaking on RTHK's Backchat p...

Anyone who has spent at least an hour on the Central section of the Central and Western District Promenade on either of two Sundays in May has been ordered to take a Covid-19 test, in the latest round of compulsory testing notices. The testing order...

An overnight "ambush-style" lockdown at a residential block in Tai Kok Tsui found no new Covid-19 cases from 760 tests, officials said as they began lifting the measures on Monday morning. The testing operation was ordered on Sunday for Tower 6 of I...

A private residential block in Tai Kok Tsui was placed under overnight lockdown on Sunday, after a Filipino domestic helper living there became an untraceable preliminary positive case with a mutated strain of Covid-19. All residents of Tower 6 of I...

A grassroot organisation has renewed its call for the government to build more transitional housing for poor families waiting for public flats, rather than leaving the task to NGOs. The Society for Community Organisation made the call on Sunday as ...

The City University has hinted that it would not make it a rule for students to receive the coronavirus vaccines for them to attend classes, in contrast with the approach of some other local territory institutions. In an internal letter issued on S...

Civil Service Secretary Patrick Nip on Sunday admitted there had been “confusion” over the administration's U-turn on the suspension of quarantine-free entry to Hong Kong via Guangdong, but said officials will learn from the experience. The Cen...

Health officials on Sunday reported a new local coronavirus infection acquired via an unknown source. The case involved a 39-year-old Indonesian domestic helper who arrived in Hong Kong in February. She lived with her employer’s family at Earl ...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam says the government will require Hong Kong residents to get vaccinated against Covid-19 as one of the conditions for them to travel abroad. Writing on her Facebook page on Saturday, Lam said: “when the SAR government di...

A medical expert has warned that Hong Kong would not be able to maintain the status of “zero new cases” for the coronavirus for long, if the inoculation rate remains so low. Thomas Tsang, a member of an expert panel advising the government on C...

Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung has defended the government’s plan to make it easier for residents train outside of Hong Kong as doctors to practise here, saying it is “important, necessary and urgent” to ease the serious manpower shortage espec...

The new chair of the Mandatory Provident Fund Authority, Ayesha Macpherson Lau, says she wants its 'one stop shop' online project to be fully operational by 2025 - with roll-out starting in 2023. The move to the eMPF Platform should reduce fees for H...

The Hong Kong government on Saturday reversed a decision to upgrade Guangdong province’s risk level, hours after health authorities said quarantine-free entry to Hong Kong from the province would be suspended. The reversal came hours after the Cen...