Leaders of a local townsmen’s organisation have called on Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor to grant them seats on a committee that will enjoy broad powers to influence the city’s politics under a Beijing-decreed overhaul.In a letter sent to Lam last week, the Federation of Hong Kong Chiu Chow Community Organisations expressed disappointment with the government’s decision to exclude it from the newly expanded 1,500-member Election Committee despite the contributions of community… [...]

Hong Kong’s unemployment rate dropped to 6.8 per cent in the first quarter of this year but continued to hover around a 17-year high, with the city’s labour chief warning the job market may still face challenges in the near term. The rolling figure for the three months ending in March edged down 0.4 percentage points compared with the previous period ending in February, the Census and Statistics Department revealed on Thursday. About 259,800 people were out of a job, roughly 1,800 fewer than… [...]

A freelance producer with Hong Kong’s public broadcaster has been convicted of providing false statements and fined HK$6,000 (US$773) over the making of a documentary critical of how police handled a mob attack at a railway station during 2019’s anti-government unrest.West Kowloon Court ruled on Thursday that RTHK contributor Bao Choy Yuk-ling had twice deceived the Transport Department by using car ownership details obtained from a government database for news reporting, rather than the… [...]

About 30 kindergarten pupils will be sent to quarantine facilities in Hong Kong after their teacher was confirmed as one of two local coronavirus cases on Thursday, while a health official flagged “unusual” findings from a testing firm that detected 30 preliminary-positive infections in a day. The developments came as the city also confirmed 12 imported Covid-19 cases on top of the two local infections, both of which were untraceable. Eight of the imported cases were from India, two from Nepal,… [...]

Cathay Pacific Airways will close its Canadian pilot base, and is considering doing the same to ones in Australia and New Zealand, putting hundreds of jobs at risk, the Post has learned.The moves come as part of a review of the airline’s overseas cockpit crew operations, which will also see it re-evaluate its European and United States pilot bases later this year, according to a memo sent to staff on Thursday. The memo indicated the airline would start to transfer pilots to Hong Kong on a… [...]