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Donald Tsang revisits his worst fears

Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen, whose views on the euro-zone debt crisis struck a chord at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, returns to the subject in the second of three interviews with RTHK this week. Speaking at the Swiss ski resort last month, Tsang told world business leaders: 'I've never been as scared as I am now.' One of the world's most highly paid government leaders, Tsang has some experience of scary times during four decades in public service, including the 1997-98 East Asian financial crisis.

Awards go to world's best news photos

The World Press Photo Awards will be announced in Amsterdam. Now the world's most respected awards for news photography, they were first held in 1955 when photojournalists in the Netherlands decided to turn their national competition into an international one. The contest has since been held every year. In its first year, it attracted entries from 42 photographers from 11 countries, who submitted more than 300 photos. Today, it attracts 95,000 submissions from more than 5,000 participants in 125 countries.

Cloning pioneer discusses new opportunities

Professor Ian Wilmut, leader of the University of Edinburgh team that in 1996 cloned Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal, and a winner of the Shaw Prize for science in 2008, returns to Hong Kong for a seminar on 'Global opportunities in stem cells and regenerative medicine'. One opportunity may be in the realm of 'direct transformation cell technology', which could allow one adult cell to be changed into another directly, without having to grow through an embryonic stage the way stem cells do.

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