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More than 10,000 people attended a Songkran Festival celebration in Kowloon City on Sunday, doubling the turnout from the last time the event was held, in 2019. The famous water-splashing festival was staged in a neighbourhood known to Hongkongers as "...

A former Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, KC Chan, said on Sunday that he doesn't think the recent bank crises in Europe and the Uni......

Financial Secretary Paul Chan says he believes the recent volatility in the virtual asset market will actually provide good opportunities for Web3 developments, even though some may be doubtful of its prospects. Writing on his blog on Sunday, Chan noted t...

Beijing announced on Saturday that it was launching three days of military drills in the Taiwan Strait. The People's Liberation Army's Eastern Theatre......

Paediatricians on Friday warned that an influx of kids hospitalised with respiratory infections has put children's wards at hospitals under strain, a day after health authorities said Hong Kong has entered the influenza season. Louis Chan, the Hospita...

Members of the Hong Kong men's ice hockey team on Friday said they felt under-appreciated as a result of the fallout from a national anthem blunder at a tournament in Bosnia. They added their voice to the controversy a day after the Hong Kong Ice Hock...

A continued slowdown in almost all the world's advanced economies is expected to drag global growth below three percent this year, the International M......

Kwun Tong Court on Thursday handed a 10-week jail sentence to the owner of a shop, where samples containing feline DNA were seized by officials, for selling cat meat.Wu Siyuan, 40, earlier admitted to selling restricted food, and using or permitting the u...

A Hospital Authority senior executive and her doctor husband were on Thursday fined HK$5,000 each, after being convicted of stealing food from a supermarket in Whampoa. Vivien Chuang, a chief manager who had hosted a number of daily Covid-19 press briefin...

Hong Kong's first-ever winner of an Asian Tour event, Taichi Kho, will be in the field for the last golf major of the year the Open Championship in late July. The 22-year-old qualified for the world's oldest tournament by winning last month's ...

French President Emmanuel Macron told President Xi Jinping on Thursday that he knows he can count on China to reason with Russia and bring everyone back to the negotiating table over the war in Ukraine.Macron made the remarks during a state visit to Beiji...

Hong Kong shares ended slightly higher Thursday, as a strong reading on Chinese service sector activity offset concerns about a US recession. The Hang......

Top diplomats from Middle East rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia met in Beijing on Thursday, pledging to work together to bring "security and stability" to their turbulent region following a China-brokered deal.In a joint statement released after talks...

Police on Thursday said they had arrested a teenager suspected of trying to drive away a bus parked up in Aberdeen.Officers said the 17-year-old suspect reported the joyride attempt himself, shortly before 2am.The double-decker only slid forward one metre...

A sports academic on Thursday said the fallout from a national anthem blunder at an ice hockey tournament featuring Hong Kong could hold back the sport's development, although elite athletes probably won't be affected. The Sports Federation & Olym...

China has condemned a meeting between Taiwan's Tsai Ing-wen and the speaker of the US House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, in California."We firmly oppose all forms of official interaction between the United States and Taiwan and any visit by...

Hong Kong stocks opened lower on Thursday as fresh below-forecast US data added to concerns about a recession in the world's biggest economy. The Hang......

The S&P 500 dipped and the Nasdaq ended sharply lower on Wednesday after a growing wave of weak economic data deepened worries that the Federal Reserv......

Police are appealing for witnesses after a 53-year-old man died after being run over by a car in Mong Kok on Wednesday night.Police say the accident happened just after 9 pm near 198 Tung Choi Street, as the man was crossing the road. The car had been hea...

The vice-captain of the Hong Kong men's ice hockey team said on Wednesday that the possible suspension of the sport's governing body could put their chances of being able to compete internationally at risk.But Alvin Sham said he hoped any punishme...

Huge numbers of people headed to the airport, railway station and border crossings on Wednesday as tens of thousands of travellers made the most of the public holiday to begin a post-Covid getaway.With the Immigration Department predicting that as many as...

French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Beijing on Wednesday for his first visit to China since 2019.Macron is accompanied on the visit by the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who is making her first trip to China as the bloc's ...

The education sector lawmaker said on Wednesday that it's ridiculous that a school in Cheung Chau has been denied permission to take in primary one pupils for the new academic year, after falling just one short of the 16 children required for a class,...

The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department says bereaved parents have welcomed the opportunity of free cremation services for foetuses that are stillborn early in pregnancy. The department says that in the six months since it opened, the Home of Foreve...

Wall Street closed lower on Tuesday after evidence of a cooling economy exacerbated worries that the Federal Reserve's campaign to rein in decades-hig......

A key gauge of labour market tightness that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has cited throughout the central bank's aggressive interest-rate hike......

The Sports Federation & Olympic Committee (SF&OC) says it's initiated suspension proceedings against the Hong Kong Ice Hockey Association (HKIHA) over a recent anthem blunder.In a statement issued on Tuesday, the SF&OC said the HKIHA has been given on...

The DAB on Tuesday called on the authorities to draw up and regularly update a list of professions in which Hong Kong doesn't have enough workers, in order to accurately reflect the city's overall employment situation.The party said the SAR is fac...

A group of lawmakers say they have come up with a way to revive an abandoned plan to build an elevated rail link in Kowloon East, saying the use of mainland technology could shave billions off the price tag.In 2020, the government dropped the idea of cons...

The Commissioner for Transport has reminded drivers who have received the new e-toll tag to register for an account as soon as possible, so that they can pay their tunnel tolls automatically when the new payment system takes effect at Tsing Sha Highway on...

China's international trade negotiator has expressed concern over Australia's scrutiny of the operations of Chinese firms there, the Commerce Ministry......

Hong Kong shares fell on Tuesday on worries that a fresh spike in oil prices could fan inflation and force the Federal Reserve to ramp up interest rat......

The Chinese consulate general in Los Angeles on Tuesday said any meeting between Taiwan's Tsai Ing-wen and US House speaker Kevin McCarthy would be a......

Dozens of doctors and medical students in the UK have been briefed about how they can come to practise medicine back in Hong Kong, as part of a wider recruitment drive by top Hospital Authority (HA) officials. The event in London, held on Saturday by the ...

People from across the political spectrum are welcome on the city's district councils as long as they are patriotic and love Hong Kong, Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Erick Tsang said on Saturday. The government has been conducting ...

Government pandemic advisor Ivan Hung said on Saturday that there may be a slight rebound in Covid cases this summer, and that elderly people should therefore plan to have a booster before then.His comments came after the government announced that from Ap...

Secretary for Justice Paul Lam on Saturday insisted Hong Kong's legal system is "very liberal" as foreign lawyers are still allowed to take part in national security cases. The country's top legislature passed an interpretation of the nati...

US stocks rallied on Friday, concluding a winning first quarter on a positive note on signs of moderating inflation and receding fear over bank indust......

Health officials on Friday said 21 people had been given expired BioNTech vaccines at a private medical centre in Kowloon Bay.In a statement, the Department of Health (DH) said they were given the jabs that had exceeded their suggested use-by date by betw...

Alibaba Group said on Thursday it will look to monetise non-core assets and consider giving up control of some businesses, as the tech conglomerate reinvents itself.Group CEO Daniel Zhang said the company's breakup into separate businesses will allow ...

Mainland officials plan random and spot checks at medical facilities in the country to track incomplete and under-reported Covid-19 data, the country'......

Premier Li Qiang on Thursday said the nation would take up its responsibility as the world's second-largest economy and act as an "anchor" for global......

Financial and political heavyweights from more than 50 countries have gathered in Hainan at the start of this year's Boao Forum, the annual conference that has been described as Asia's version of the World Economic Forum in Davos. In his opening a...

Hong Kong's tourism watchdog said on Tuesday that the trade is working hard to minimise the impact of mainland tour groups on residents in Kowloon City, amid complaints that a recent surge in visitors had affected their daily lives. Tour groups have r...

Hong Kong needs to find sufficient land for its housing needs and economic development so it can be better than other places, Chief Executive John Lee said on Tuesday."It's not about competing with ourselves, it's about competing with the rest...

Chief Executive John Lee on Tuesday said officials have a responsibility to ensure that public gatherings are not hijacked or pose a risk to public order, safety and national security. He was responding to a reporter's question, ahead of the weekly Ex...

The United States and Japan on Tuesday announced a trade deal on electric vehicle battery minerals that is key to strengthening their battery supply c......

Hong Kong stocks opened higher on Tuesday as fears of a banking sector crisis eased after a regional US lender agreed to buy most of collapsed rival S......

The S&P 500 ended slightly higher on Monday as a deal for Silicon Valley Bank's assets helped to boost bank shares, while a decline in technology-rela......

A top US markets regulator on Monday charged cryptocurrency giant Binance and its founder Changpeng Zhao for multiple violations, in another move by W......