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A view of residential buildings on Hong Kong Island in 2023. Hong Kong remains the world’s most expensive city to buy a home and ranks as the seventh priciest rental market. Photo: Yik Yeung-man
Hong Kong housing

Letters | Home sweet home? More like investment sweet investment in Hong Kong

Readers discuss the city’s world-topping property prices, care for low vision, and what Napoleon’s wallpaper had to do with his death.

Artificial intelligence

Hong Kong’s AI ambitions take shape with 90% of supercomputing capacity now in use

SCMP Highlights

Cantonese cuisine in New York, advice on ageing well: 7 Lifestyle highlights

Universities in Hong Kong

6 public universities in Hong Kong rise in global rankings

University of Hong Kong climbs to 11th place, beating two prestigious mainland Chinese institutions.

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The University of Hong Kong came in 11th in the global ranking. Photo: Elson Li
Hong Kong society

Bitumen-lined water pipe in Hong Kong to be replaced by early July: minister

Development minister Bernadette Linn also says more than 1,500 requests from affected households to flush their water meters have been fulfilled.

Hong Kong environmental issues

Letters | Dragon boat races and the like must have proper waste management plans

Readers discuss waste reduction at large outdoor events, the trouble with reducing clinical training hours for medical lab technologists, and how closing schools will affect students and teachers.

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Hong Kong society

70% of Hongkongers under 25 have tried e-cigarettes: university poll

Some 60 per cent of respondents also say they picked flavoured cigarettes or other alternative tobacco products due to peer pressure.

A woman smokes an e-cigarette in Mong Kok. More than one-third of regular smokers polled said they supported plain packaging, according to one university poll. Photo: Eugene Lee
Science

AI scientist Zhang Chengqi leaves Australia to teach in China

Zhang’s rural roots and social circumstances delayed university entry, but once admitted he was among the first in China to study AI in 1980s.

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Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Greater healthcare demand drives 55% rise in Hong Kong employee medical premiums

Inaugural ‘staff medical insurance index’ highlights surge over past three years with post Covid-19 illnesses among contributing factors.

Climate change

Letters | Asia must focus on energy transition and the jobs it offers

Readers discuss the opportunities available in the clean energy sector, the best next steps to connect Hong Kong’s primary care providers with the public, and how the city’s restaurants can thrive in the digital era.

A herd of Pere David’s deer walk underneath solar panels at a nature reserve in Yancheng, in eastern China’s Jiangsu province on April 5. Photo: AFP China OUT
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Hongkongers with spinal cord injuries may regain mobility with help of new lab

New laboratory at Polytechnic University to start clinical trials for advanced therapy products after facility is fully licensed.

A university academic has said the institution hopes the facility can work in tandem with its proposed medical school to provide a one-stop shop, ranging from treatment to rehabilitation. Photo: Nora Tam
Artificial intelligence

DeepSeek’s success lies in singular focus on innovation, AI scientist says

Hong Kong PolyU’s Yang Hongxia says China’s DeepSeek is purely engaged in AI model development.

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Education in Hong Kong

PolyU head confident of securing approval to run Hong Kong’s third medical school

Teng Jin-Guang says PolyU already offers numerous medical-related programmes such as physiotherapy, radiography and nursing.

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Education in Hong Kong

3 universities in Hong Kong among top 10 in major ranking of Asian institutions

HKU holds No 2 position, CUHK rises to No 6 and CityU to No 10, marking first time three institutions placed in top 10 of Asian University Rankings.

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The University of Hong Kong has been placed second in an annual ranking of Asian universities. Photo: Dickson Lee
Artificial intelligence

Smartphone giant Oppo, PolyU to launch joint AI research centre in Hong Kong

Oppo pledged US$4.2 million in funding over the next five years to deepen collaboration with PolyU on AI imaging technology.

Oppo and PolyU are expanding the scale of co-training in artificial intelligence for PhD and postdoctoral researchers in Hong Kong. Photo: Shutterstock
Israel-Gaza war

Opinion | What US student protesters can learn from their Hong Kong peers

Protesters at my US alma mater chose confrontation over discussion, a reminder of the trauma of 2019, from which Hong Kong still suffers.

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Education in Hong Kong

Universities in Hong Kong admit more non-local students after intake quota doubled

Baptist University says number of first-year, non-local students for 2024-25 to increase by nearly 200 per cent from last year.

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Hong Kong society

Opinion | Hong Kong’s new taxi licensing scheme is old wine in new bottles

The licensing overhaul sounds worthy of praise, but won’t win over the public if it’s just for vested interests and holding back Uber.

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An employee of a taxi service cleans one of the company’s newest cars in To Kwa Wan on July 31. Hong Kong’s taxi licencing scheme will not allocate extra resources, but rather reshuffle those the city already has. Photo: May Tse
Hong Kong property

Exclusive | Techtronic executive pays US$106 million for The Peak villas in Hong Kong

Stephan Horst Pudwill is said to be the buyer of 99, 101 and 103 Peak Road. The villas, which range from 4,627 to 5,067 sq ft, fetched HK$828 million, according to government records.

Hong Kong property

Hong Kong’s ‘glass king’ snaps up 4 mansions in HK$1.1 billion sale

Yeung and Lam like the Plantation Road area as they spent HK$2.8 billion in 2017 on a plot of land along Pollock’s Path, near their latest purchases.

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Exclusive | Indonesia can provide Hong Kong with nurses, says top envoy to city

It has already done so in several other developed economies, says Consul General Yul Edison

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A nurse holds a newborn baby in the maternity ward of a Jakarta hospital. Photo: AFP
Architecture and design

‘The spirit of Gaudí’: why Barcelona’s Sagrada Família still inspires to this day

Horace Pan, chairman of the Hong Kong Interior Design Association, explains how Antoni Gaudí’s unfinished masterpiece changed his life

La Sagrada Familia, an icon of Barcelona designed by architect António Gaudi, inspired Horace Pan Hung-bing, founder of Hong Kong interior design studio Panorama Design Group. Photo: Shutterstock
Artificial intelligence

China’s top AI scientist Yang Hongxia joins Hong Kong Polytechnic University

The recruitment comes as the Hong Kong government makes efforts to transform the city into a technology hub by leveraging the research capabilities of its top universities.

John Lee

Hong Kong businesses and other organisations sign 12 non-binding deals with Laos

City leader John Lee meets Laotian Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone and foreign minister Saleumxay Kommasith on second day in Vientiane.

Accidents and personal safety

Letters | Include optometrists in updating eyesight standards for Hong Kong drivers

Readers discuss how to improve road safety, the pleasure of flipping through newspapers, and scammers’ new tricks.

A taxi driver reads a newspaper while waiting in line to pick up passengers at Hong Kong International Airport on July 15. Photo: Elson Li
China manufacturing

China-made goods shine at Paris Olympics amid lack of ‘comparable competitors’

The 2024 Summer Games may be French, but much of the equipment and related accoutrements were made in China, owing to a lack of ‘comparable competitors’ in global manufacturing.

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Illustration: Henry Wong
Accidents and disasters in China

China seeking hi-tech solutions to disaster relief challenges

Satellite technology was used to help rescue teams when heavy flooding struck the centre of the country earlier this month.

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China manufacturing

As US tariffs take their toll, Chinese companies rethink their stake in Vietnam

Vietnam has long been a preferred destination for foreign-invested projects, but rising costs are pushing Chinese firms to consider their options.

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