Canadian immigration authorities have confirmed that a “lifeboat” open work permit scheme for recent graduates from Hong Kong will end this Friday and that it will not be extended. Canadian ...

A Hong Kong woman has been prosecuted for allegedly keeping 136 dogs without licences at an animal shelter in Yuen Long.

Six people who rappelled off a bridge and fled from a university campus besieged by police at the peak of the pro-democracy protests in 2019 are seeking an appeal against their earlier convictions for ...

A Chinese rocket carrying a communications satellite failed in its launch, state media said, attributing the failure to a "flight anomaly" as reports and videos suggested the spacecraft had exploded ...

Typhoon Dolphin brought heavy rain to eastern China on Monday, causing hundreds of flight cancellations even as the storm ...

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Eleven pro-democracy figures jailed in the landmark “Hong Kong 47” national security case have won permission to appeal to ...

A final investigation report into the cause of the Tai Po blaze last year has concluded that the fatal fire was likely caused ...

Hong Kong police have arrested 10 drivers for dangerous driving on the Kwun Tong Bypass, deploying drones in a traffic operation for the first time.

Hong Kong’s Labour Department will revamp the city’s heat stress warning system, its chief has said, after a former weather official called the mechanism “decorative” for issuing only the lowest alert ...

Artificial intelligence users are shopping around as US giants face fierce competition from Chinese rivals -- and in ...

Temperatures reached a record-breaking 36.9 degrees Celsius at the Observatory (HKO) headquarters on Sunday, as a heatwave ...