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Hong Kong employers could breach the law if they do not provide training and education to staff on serving people with disabilities, the chairperson of the city’s equality watchdog has said. Linda Lam, the head of the Equal Opportunities Commisssion (EOC), was responding in a Commercial Radio show on Friday to an incident last week […]

Hong Kong’s manpower shortage is expected to worsen to 180,000 by 2028 due partly to its rapidly ageing population, a government study has found. Assuming annual gross domestic product growth of 3.2 per cent, the city will need 3.75 million workers in 2028, the Labour and Welfare Bureau said on Thursday when it released the […]

Hong Kong caregivers have been urged to set aside “me-time” and address their own well-being as a survey found that 80 per cent of them were aged 60 or above. The city of 7.5 million has an ageing population, with the proportion of those aged 65 or above expected to climb from 21 per cent […]

China’s retail sales last month grew at their fastest clip since the start of the year, official figures showed Friday, an encouraging sign for Beijing as it looks to boost sluggish consumption. Officials have since late September unveiled a slew of measures including interest rate cuts and debt swaps intended to boost activity in the […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday inaugurated Latin America’s first Beijing-funded port in Chancay, Peru — a symbol of the Asian superpower’s growing influence on the continent as it prepares to face off with a new Donald Trump administration. The US$3.5-billion complex, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of Lima, is meant to serve as […]

Hong Kong’s Department of Justice (DoJ) may seek longer sentences in a bomb plot case which was the first to be brought in the city under a United Nations anti-terrorism law, a government spokesperson said, after the “mastermind” was sentenced to almost 24 years. The DoJ will study the reasons for sentencing in detail and […]

Five Hong Kong men have been arrested over allegedly driving electric bicycles and scooters on the road illegally. Five men aged between 34 and 63 were arrested in Kwun Tong, Sau Mau Ping and Tseung Kwan O on Wednesday in a police operation to crack down on the illegal use of electric mobility devices in […]

The Hong Kong government has given new identification numbers to lamp posts that inadvertently referenced the date of the Tiananmen crackdown, with the numbers “8964” and “6489” erased in favour of new codes. When HKFP visited a lamp post on Po Shun Road in Tseung Kwan O at around 2.40pm on Tuesday, a worker was […]

The “mastermind” of a thwarted bomb plot intending to target police during protests in Hong Kong in 2019 has been sentenced nearly 24 years behind bars, as the leader of radical group “Dragon Slayers” was jailed for 13-and-a-half years. Ng Chi-hung, 28, and Wong Chun-keung, 26, appeared at Hong Kong’s High Court on Thursday to […]

Members of Hong Kong’s Democratic Party, as well as their families and employers, have received harassing messages and letters in the run-up to an internal election, party chair Lo Kin-hei has said. Speaking on a Cantonese talk show hosted by party member and former lawmaker Emily Lau, Lo said that the harassment has lasted for […]

More than a dozen US-based employees of Taiwanese chipmaking giant TSMC have sued the company for apparent discrimination against non-Asian workers, according to a recent lawsuit. The suit alleges that the world’s largest contract manufacturer of chips — used in everything from Apple iPhones to Nvidia’s AI hardware — unfairly favors Asian staff in terms […]

Low-cost carrier HK Express has launched limited HK$2 one-way fares for residents of Hong Kong and Macau aged 65 and over to celebrate Senior Citizens Day, which this year falls on Sunday. The HK$2 tickets are available to 13 destinations in mainland China, Malaysia, Taiwan, Vietnam, and the Philippines, while seniors can fly to seven […]

By Joy Chiang Taiwan will keep strengthening its military capabilities, a senior security official said, in an apparent signal to US President-elect Donald Trump that the island is serious about shoring up its own defences. Taipei has ramped up defence spending in recent years in response to China’s growing military presence around the self-ruled island […]

A Hong Kong man has been charged with insulting China’s national anthem during  a 2026 World Cup Asian qualifier in Hong Kong in June. The 19-year-old was charged on Tuesday with one count of insulting the national anthem during a match between the city’s football team and Iran held at Hong Kong Stadium on June […]

Hong Kong has downgraded its typhoon warning to a T3 as the Tropical Cyclone Toraji, which prompted the latest T8 storm signal ever issued in a year, departed. The Hong Kong Observatory said at 9.45 am on Thursday that Toraji had begun to weaken and move away from the territory. The T3 signal was issued […]

A Hong Kong nurse who has just returned from war-torn Gaza has warned of a deepening mental health crisis among Palestinians, especially children. Krystal So recounted her experience of returning to the maternity ward in the Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza between September and early-November, her second six-week deployment there this year with medical charity […]

Hong Kong has raised its T8 typhoon signal as Tropical Cyclone Toraji neared, bringing squally showers and strong winds to the city. The Gale or Strom Signal, No. 8 was issued at 11.10 pm on Wednesday, with the Hong Kong Observatory saying it would remain in force until at least 10 am on Thursday. “In […]

A Hong Kong judge has criticised the government over its delay in processing a legal aid application relating to a challenge over a planned tech hub. After rejecting activist Eddie Tse’s application to suspend proceedings in a legal challenge against a planned tech hub on Monday, Judge Russell Coleman in a judgement published on Wednesday […]

Hong Kong authorities should file appeals against “lenient penalties” in cases of occupational safety violations, a labour rights group has said after the city saw three fatal industrial incidents in five days. The deaths of three construction workers last week were “very concerning” and Hong Kong must continue to improve its industrial safety laws, the […]

Palau’s president has accused China of flouting the Pacific nation’s maritime borders, raising concerns about research vessels lurking “uninvited” within its waters. “We keep on raising flags and complaining about it, but they keep on sending them,” said President Surangel Whipps Jr, the pro-US leader re-elected this week. “They continually don’t respect our sovereignty and […]

A 57-year-old man has been charged under Hong Kong’s homegrown security law, known as Article 23, over allegedly publishing “seditious” posts on social media platforms. The National Security Department of the police laid a charge of “knowingly publishing publications that had a seditious intention” against the man on Wednesday morning, according to a government statement […]

Hong Kong has issued its T3 typhoon warning for the second time within a week as Tropical Cyclone Toraji approached the territory, bringing occasional strong winds and showers. The Strong Wind Signal, No. 3 was raised at 2.40 pm on Wednesday as Toraji’s outer rainbands began to affect Hong Kong, with the Hong Kong Observatory […]

By Michael Zhang, with Matthew Walsh in Beijing Officials in southern China ramped up security on Wednesday at the site of one of the country’s deadliest mass-casualty events in years, snuffing out makeshift memorials to the 35 people killed when a man drove a car into a crowd at a sports complex. On Monday, the […]

Beijing has condemned the UK for interfering the case of detained pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai after the British foreign minister met Lai’s son in the UK last week. The Commissioner’s Office of China’s Foreign Ministry in Hong Kong said in a Chinese-language statement on Tuesday evening that UK politicians, including the foreign secretary David Lammy, […]