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Hong Kong science and technology
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People stand on a new boardwalk in Quarry Bay on January 4. Photo: Robert Ng
Hong Kong economy

Opinion | Hong Kong’s budget should move the city towards ‘inspirational’ development

The 2026-27 budget speech should explain how the city’s economic direction aligns with global and national trends, defining its place in the industries of the future.

Hong Kong economy

Hong Kong workers lag regional peers in AI use, lose out on pay, security: PwC

Education in Hong Kong

AI mental health app helps Hong Kong students accentuate the positive

Hong Kong

Hong Kong watchdog warns against using Musk’s Grok bot to create indecent images

Using AI’s image-editing function to ‘undress’ people or create malicious content could amount to criminal offences, privacy watchdog says.

X on Wednesday announced measures to prevent Grok from undressing images of real people, following global backlash over its generation of sexualised photos of women and children. Photo: Reuters
Hong Kong economy

Opinion | Northern Metropolis can combine best of central planning and free market

Guided by the national five-year plans, the Hong Kong government is changing policies and offering attractive terms for the project.

Hong Kong transport

Hourly services at first automated Hong Kong public car park partially resume

Car park in Tseung Kwan O opened on December 29, but hourly parking services were suspended two days later.

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Hong Kong society

Hong Kong students lauded for using AI to help elderly fulfil travel dreams

City leader’s wife says she hopes innovations can be leveraged ‘so that people of all ages and backgrounds can participate in voluntary work’.

Students and teachers from Buddhist Sum Heung Lam Memorial College collected their award. Photo: Jelly Tse
Hong Kong economy

The Drone Age: hi-tech wizardry propels Hong Kong towards lift-off

As Hong Kong prepares to enter the era of flying taxis, key players roll out groundbreaking innovations at the cutting edge of technology.

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Hong Kong economy

Thousands of passenger, cargo drones will fill Hong Kong skies in decade: expert

Mainland Chinese eVTOL leader AutoFlight will spread wings in Hong Kong amid global push into flying taxi market.

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CES

US visa denials cast a shadow over Hong Kong’s largest-ever delegation to CES

Hong Kong’s CES delegation includes start-ups from fields of health tech, artificial intelligence and new materials.

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The 2026 CES logo outside the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, on January 5. Photo: AFP
Hong Kong

Hong Kong scientists discover 2 new coral species in city’s southeastern waters

Baptist University researcher team, led by Professor Qiu Jianwen, discovers two previously unknown soft corals off Sung Kong Island.

One of the two new soft coral species, Parasphaerasclera dimorpha, discovered by marine scientists at Baptist University. Photo: Handout
Hong Kong

Hong Kong to launch ‘special channel’ for cross-border sensitive biological data

A ‘green channel’ and ‘white list’ system will allow samples and data to cross between innovation hubs in Lok Ma Chau and Shenzhen.

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Chinese University of Hong Kong to offer free autism test for 200 young children

University to launch pilot project in January using new technology that tests stool samples and provides results as quickly as one week later.

Education in Hong Kong

Hong Kong schools to get HK$500,000 each under AI education plan

Public primary and secondary schools interested are required to submit their application forms by February 2026.

Hong Kong education authorities will offer HK$500,000 to each public primary and secondary school that applies for funding to introduce AI in classrooms. Photo: Karma Lo
Artificial intelligence

Hong Kong’s HKChat raises AI expectations as 90,000 users join app in debut week

HKChat tops free app ranking on Apple’s Hong Kong App Store on Sunday.

Director Guo Yike of the Hong Kong Generative Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Centre shows the core functions of the HKChat app. Photo: May Tse
Education in Hong Kong

Letters | As edtech tools grow, schools need to know which ones really work

Reader discuss the drive for quality assurance in educational technology, scholars’ responsibility to uphold transparency over AI use, and treating The Cenotaph with respect.

Technology

Exclusive | HKSTP CEO Terry Wong’s vision for Hong Kong’s tech future

Fresh from three years on Saudi Arabia’s huge smart-city project, Wong aims to harness ecosystem effects to step up innovation in the city.

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Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Editorial | Genome project evidence of Hong Kong’s progress on biomedical hub goal

The large-scale genome sequencing project has exceeded its original targets and is already bearing fruit.

From the left, Brian Chung Hon-yin of the Hong Kong Genome Institute, Dr Becky Ma Ming-yao and Dr Derek Lee Pok-him attend a press conference at the institute on October 31. Photo: Edmond So
Hong Kong

Hong Kong Laureate Forum kicks off as city woos global science talent

The four-day event aims to facilitate exchanges between Shaw Prize winners and young scientists.

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Hong Kong’s large-scale genome sequencing project recruits 52,000 in 4 years

Hong Kong Genome Project aims to bring in extra 60,000 to 70,000 people in next five years to help uncover, treat undiagnosed diseases.

Hong Kong

Hong Kong LinkedIn users urged to check privacy settings as AI training to resume

Professional networking site halted training in late 2024 after city’s privacy watchdog raised concerns about platform’s default opt-in data use.

LinkedIn has confirmed it will begin using personal data to train its generative AI models starting on November 3. Photo: Shutterstock
Hong Kong economy

Hong Kong tech start-up wins Middle East investment offers after government push

GoGoChart, part of 110-member Hong Kong delegation to Future Investment Initiative forum last year, reveals various Middle East investors have offered funding.

Daniel Lo is the founder and CEO of digital marketing company GoGoChart. Photo: Sun Yeung
Artificial intelligence

‘Slave’ to AI: Nobel Prize winners warn against technology overhype, dependency

Professors David Gross and Arieh Warshel also praised Hong Kong’s education system and focus on science at event exploring AI.

US-China relations

Update | US Nobel laureate praises Hong Kong, expresses concern about China science impasse

Randy Schekman, who won Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2013, also lauded Hong Kong for openness and free spirit.

Hong Kong society

Hong Kong’s John Lee champions Shaw Prize vision, pays tribute to late physicist

City leader among those paying respects to Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Chen-ning Yang, who died in Beijing on Saturday.

The award, dubbed the “Nobel Prize of the East”, honours outstanding contributions in astronomy, life science and medicine, and the mathematical sciences. Photo: Sun Yeung
Artificial intelligence

Hong Kong least ready for AI adoption among global markets: survey

Only 2 per cent of organisations in Hong Kong are fully prepared for AI, the lowest among all markets surveyed by Cisco.

Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour seen from The Peak. Photo: Sun Yeung
Hong Kong

Cancer drug specialist to set up HK$600 million production line in Hong Kong

Advanced Isotopes Technology Asia will set up plant at Tai Po InnoPark under scheme to boost new industrialisation.

Hong Kong economy

Action plan to develop Hong Kong’s low-altitude economy to lift off next year

Deputy Financial Secretary Michael Wong hopes passenger drone trials will get green light from civil aviation chief.

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