A journal that could be the only surviving first-hand account of Chinese involvement in the Normandy landings in 1944 has been discovered in a rundown flat in Sai Ying Pun.

Two government departments, currently under the direction of the Commerce and Economic Development Bureau, will be outsourced to the new Innovation and Technology Bureau when it launches, the commerce secretary announced yesterday.

Hong Kong’s tourism industry watchdog is ready to soon roll out reinforced measures to stem “forced shopping”, including handing to mainland authorities the names of suspected “shadow visitors” and making public how much group tours to the city normally should cost, the commerce minister said.

A new coalition of taxi drivers and operators is launching a smartphone app to allow passengers to hail cabs and rate drivers in a bid to address the sector’s long-running service woes and to head off competition from new operators like Uber.

The High Court will decide whether police officers have the authority to seize the mobile phones of people they arrest and access the content, after an application for a judicial review was granted.

Tickets for the more than 10,000 seats to see next year's FIA Formula E Championship races in Hong Kong will be available at a "reasonable" price, the Legislative Council was told yesterday.

Little can be done to prevent maritime accidents caused by floating junk similar to the high-speed ferry crash on Sunday, said a maritime expert and former captain.

A new independent body needs to be set up to monitor conditions inside police holding cells as the force’s watchdog has no power to do so at present, said a local human rights NGO after announcing the government had failed its improvement pledge made in 2009.