A 41-year-old passenger has died and three others have been injured after a head-on car crash in Hong Kong’s New Territories. The force said that a taxi and a private car collided on Fan Kam Road near Chuk Hang in Pat Heung at around 2am on Friday. According to photos circulating on the internet, the
The countdown has officially begun. On July 7 2025 (7/7, if you know, you know), Hong Kong will become the first city in the world to host the CR7 Life Museum – an immersive facility dedicated to the life, values and legacy of global football icon Cristiano Ronaldo. A press conference was held yesterday at
Civil servants, from cleaners to policymakers, will need to fulfil their duty to identify national security breaches under new guidelines that will soon be released, Hong Kong’s security chief has said. Secretary for Security Chris Tang Ping-keung said that even though Hong Kong had returned to stability after the 2019 anti-government protests, national security risks
Hong Kong authorities have ordered a branch of Belgian luxury chocolatier Godiva to halt the sale of its dark chocolate soft ice cream after a sample was found to contain a total bacterial count 46 times above the legal limit. The Centre for Food Safety said on Thursday that the sample collected from the shop
Hong Kong’s eight public universities have received about 850 transfer inquiries related to “sudden policy changes” affecting overseas higher education amid the Trump administration’s hostile stance towards foreign enrolments, according to the government. Authorities revealed the number of inquiries submitted so far following a meeting between university heads and the government’s Committee on Education, Technology
Hong Kong is intensifying its bid to become a global digital asset (DA) hub with the release of an updated policy statement focused on accelerating stablecoin use and tokenisation efforts, amid renewed momentum in the US this year. “The government’s highly anticipated Policy Statement 2.0, aimed at establishing Hong Kong as a global digital assets
In the second of a two-part series on the national security law, we look at how the city has had to battle a negative narrative over the past five years. Read part 1 here. Soon after Hong Kong reopened in early 2023 as harsh pandemic restrictions were finally lifted, veteran lawmaker Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee
More than a decade ago, Hongkonger Olivia Cheung Lok-man’s heart stopped beating for 63 minutes. She was a 19-year-old student at the time and had suffered a fulminant myocarditis attack, a rare and severe illness that can cause heart failure. Cheung, now a 30-year-old art teacher, has since developed the ability to cope with the
