The Hong Kong Observatory (HKO) lowered the storm signal to T3 at 8.20pm on Wednesday, as Super Typhoon Ragasa departed the city. The Fire Services Department deployed to Lei Yue Mun as Super Typho…

By Peter Catterall with Joy Chiang in Taipei Fierce winds, pounding rain and rough seas battered southern China on Wednesday as powerful Typhoon Ragasa made landfall in Guangdong province after kil…

The Hong Kong government should take “decisive action” in waste reduction, a local environmental NGO has said, after the municipal waste charge scheme was shelved following repeated del…

The number of registered voters in Hong Kong has dropped for the fourth straight year ahead of the city’s “patriots-only” legislative elections in December. Election officials opening the first bal…

Hong Kong authorities have begun removing a decades-old tree felled by Super Typhoon Ragasa, as non-governmental groups sought to salvage the timber and preserve a piece of the estate’s history. Wo…

Preliminary studies by climate scientists suggest that unusually hot oceans – caused by human driven climate change – intensified Super Typhoon Ragasa, which battered the Asia-Pacific r…

Hong Kong has retained the top spot in a global economic freedom ranking released annually by a Canadian think tank. Hong Kong skyline in March 2025. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. The Fraser Institute, a p…

Hong Kong lawmakers have passed a new law to regulate subdivided units, as the housing minister gives assurance that rents will not increase significantly after landlords bring their flats up to st…

Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order laying out a proposed deal for a US version of TikTok that would see Chinese ownership reduced to 20 percent and put control in the hands of the p…

By Joy Chiang Rescuers in eastern Taiwan pulled a man in his nineties from his flooded home on Thursday, where he had been trapped for three days after a barrier lake burst during torrential rains …

Hong Kong’s tourism minister has said authorities warned organisers of a heavily criticised hot air balloon festival about a week before the opening day that it was unlikely to be granted a p…

A concern group has alleged that a Hong Kong janitor was fined for littering while collecting trash on the street, criticising the prosecution as “excessively harsh” and disregarding workers’ routi…

A Hong Kong man has been prosecuted and may face up to 14 days in jail after he allegedly swam at a public beach that was shut down on Wednesday, when the city was hit by Super Typhoon Ragasa. Phot…

Welcome back to HKFP Monitor. This week, Beijing amplified attacks on new US Consul General Julie Eadeh after she reportedly invited pro-democracy figures to her inaugural reception. Also: more tha…

Chinese Premier Li Qiang warned Friday against a return to a “Cold War mentality” and defended multilateralism and free trade, in a veiled criticism of the United States from the United…

The death toll from Severe Tropical Storm Bualoi rose to 11 in the Philippines on Saturday as the cyclone bore down on Vietnam, authorities said. This handout photo taken on September 26, 2025 and …

Super Typhoon Ragasa has revealed heroes among us. Among the city’s unsung heroes are the sampan captain who rescued people swept out to sea, the anonymous boilersuit-clad workers who phlegma…

At a secretive rooftop party in a beaten-down tenement building in Hong Kong’s Sham Shui Po district in March, a man uttered, “I want to play music in a band so badly.” He then started asking the p…

Italian tennis player Lorenzo Musetti apologised on Saturday for an on-court outburst at people coughing in the crowd at the China Open. Italy’s Lorenzo Musetti reacts after winning a point a…

The world’s highest bridge opened to traffic in China on Sunday, state media said, capping an engineering feat three years in the making and snatching the record from another bridge in the sa…