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The Stanley International Dragon Boat Championship is held at Stanley Main Beach on Tuen Ng Festival on May 31. Photo: Nora Tam
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.

Hong Kong society

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

Science

AI scientist Zhang Chengqi leaves Australia to teach in China

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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.

Employees’ medical insurance has increased by 55 per cent over the past three years, according to the index. Photo: Dickson Lee
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.

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.

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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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Smartphone displaying the Deepseek logo with the Chinese flag in the background. China and artificial intelligence are thriving on the global stage. 01.03.2025. İstanbul, Türkiye. Shutterstock Images
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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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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Police detain a demonstrator during a pro-Palestinian protest at Emory University on April 25, in Atlanta, Georgia. Some student protests at US colleges have turned violent. Photo: AFP
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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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.

The buyer of 99, 101 and 103 Peak Road paid HK$860 million for the three properties, according to sources. Photo: Google
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.

Yeung Kin-man, the founder and chairman of Biel Crystal Manufactory Limited on June 14, 2017. Photo: Edmond So
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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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

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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.

Hong Kong is leveraging on the research capabilities of its top universities to transform into a tech hub. Photo: Sun Yeung
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.

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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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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Rescuers work to fix a breach in a dyke at Dongting Lake in Hunan province. Photo: Xinhua
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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Hong Kong property

Hong Kong’s property woes reach The Peak as family offers fire sale

Hong Kong’s property slump is hurting even Hong Kong’s elites, snaring distressed developers and wealthy families who had turned to the private credit market for financing.

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Business of climate change

Hong Kong PolyU, Sunlight Eco-tech to jointly launch solar-driven freezer lorries

Plans are afoot to commercially produce solar-powered freezer lorries in the city for the first time, in a move to help reduce the carbon footprint of a sector responsible for a fifth of the city’s emissions.

The solar-powered freezer truck developed by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Business of climate change

Hong Kong university R&D unit eyes efficient power grids in mainland China, city

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) will set up a research centre to improve power grid efficiency and to support carbon neutrality goals in mainland China and Hong Kong.

This photo taken on May 23, 2024 shows a worker installing electricity transmission lines in Korla, in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region. Photo: AFP
History

City of darkness: Kowloon Walled City reimagined by artist using AI

Hong Kong artist Bianca Tse has created whimsical AI images of the notorious Kowloon Walled City, a warren of slum buildings in the city demolished in 1993 and 1994. She talks about what inspired her project.

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Food and Drinks

A food expert’s go-to Hong Kong restaurants for noodles, Indian food, fish

Samantha Tam, a lecturer in hospitality, shares her favourite restaurants in Hong Kong, from a busy Chinese dessert spot to an Indian restaurant that is popular with chefs.

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