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Hong Kong labour authorities are investigating the cause of a fatal industrial accident involving a worker who fell to his death from the third floor of a food factory while setting up scaffolding. The force received a report on Tuesday at around 1.30pm that a 57-year-old worker had fallen from support brackets on the facade of a food factory at No 14 Dai Fu Street. The victim, who fell unconscious, was rushed to Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital in the district. He was later certified dead [...]

Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation will begin operating its long-awaited new signalling system on the Tsuen Wan line on March 15, marking a critical milestone in a major infrastructure overhaul designed to enhance the reliability of the city’s ageing rail network. The rail giant said on Tuesday that the new system had passed rigorous safety tests and received approval from the relevant government departments. “This marks a very important milestone in the upgrade of our urban lines’ signalling systems. [...]

Hong Kong’s conservation authorities have defended their handling of heavy visitor flows to Sai Kung’s country parks over the Lunar New Year holiday, saying crowd levels at the popular spots stayed under control despite concerns about overcrowding, with 32 enforcement cases recorded during the period. But a Sai Kung district councillor also said that the number of campers at some popular sites had far exceeded recommended capacity levels, arguing that the government should consider introducing [...]

Standard Chartered Bank, one of Hong Kong’s three note-issuing banks, reported a 16 per cent profit jump for 2025, as strong wealth management growth helped it weather rising bad debt from the city’s commercial real estate slump. The London-based bank, which generates much of its revenue from Asia, reported an underlying pre-tax profit of US$7.9 billion last year, compared with US$6.8 billion in 2024, the bank said in a stock exchange filing on Tuesday. Underlying earnings per share stood at [...]

Hong Kong’s finance chief will unveil new measures in his budget to strengthen the city’s growing intellectual property (IP) economy, focusing on nurturing top-tier talent and helping local tech firms evaluate their patents, the South China Morning Post has learned. The initiatives, expected to be announced on Wednesday, come as Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po faces mounting expectations to make strategic use of the city’s earlier-than-expected operating surplus while investing in long-term [...]