Progress of the Sars Outbreak

CUHK's new head stresses need for values

17 Dec 2010

Chinese University's new vice-chancellor, Professor Joseph Sung Jao-yiu, has warned against the blind pursuit of scientific progress at the expense of values.

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Bankruptcy petitions fall below 1,000 mark

21 Nov 2009

The number of individual monthly bankruptcy filings fell below 1,000 for the first time in a year last month, although the overall situation remains worse than at any time since the outbreak of...

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Government offers funds to help hospitals upgrade

1 Jun 2009

The government has released funding to strengthen preparations by local hospitals to convert existing facilities or build international-standard isolation wards.

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Letters

8 May 2009

May Fourth ideal remains unfulfilled

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Quarantine shuts hotel for 7 days as outbreak feared

2 May 2009

The Metropark hotel in Wan Chai was closed for a seven-day quarantine yesterday, causing confusion among guests who complained of receiving little information about what the process involved....

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Biggest mourning since Mao died

20 May 2008

It was a national display of public grief unmatched since the death of Mao Zedong in 1976.

Then, the government declared a week of mourning. At 3pm on September 18, the nation stood...

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Opinion

Alex Lo

Chen Guangcheng misled by his new right-wing 'friends'

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Tom Holland

The yuan hasn't overtaken the HK$ quite yet, Mr Chan

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EV71 virus confirmed for deaths in Guangdong

The virus which has killed 22 children in Anhui province has spread to Guangdong as two infants who died in Foshan were confirmed positive for enterovirus 71.

Infections from the...

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Talkback

Is closing schools the right move amid the flu outbreak?

People have expressed fears of the flu outbreak spreading in Hong Kong.

I think the government made the right...

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Epidemic of fear

Faces in masks; recommendations about bleached water cleanser; TV footage of people being rushed to hospital; newspaper headlines screaming about child deaths - for a brief period last week, it...

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Talkback

Is closing schools the right move amid the flu outbreak?

It is obviously important for students to attend school.

We need well-educated young people to ensure that Hong...

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Ignorance was always the biggest enemy as scientists raced to unravel the mystery virus

While health professionals battled to save hundreds of lives during the Sars outbreak in 2003, researchers were busy studying the emergence of the virus to determine what made it so deadly.

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Remaining vigilant

Five years since a deadly virus hit, our five-part series look back and asks what a lessons have been learned; Part 5 - What the future holds

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