Health experts have dismissed concerns about a Hong Kong government-subsidised flu vaccine that does not have clinical trial data on pregnant women, saying the decades-long technology is safe and people with less confidence can turn to the private sector for shots. Authorities said on Tuesday that Hong Kong had entered the summer flu season, a…
Hong Kong does not lack scientific talent and has long excelled in academic research. But its market has been too small to grow its own tech industries. However, as China emerges as a science powerhouse, the city now has a chance to raise its game and join the big league. Fifteen facilities in Hong Kong…
The Hong Kong government and a university have denied a claim made by a major private education chain that the tertiary institution had won the bidding process to operate the city’s third medical school, calling the statement groundless. They weighed in on Monday after Beacon College posted a clip to social media saying that “reliable…
The man considered Hong Kong’s emperor of architecture – the city’s own master builder, its home-sprung fountainhead – is talking about his new book. The original title he’d chosen was Learning from Hong Kong? “The question mark is important because that means I’m not being too conceited or self-centred,” says Rocco Yim Sen-kee. Framed within…
A slew of both supportive and hateful online comments over Hong Kong pop singer Keung To’s recent fall into the sea reflects divided public opinion and the social media pressures young stars face, a psychiatrist and a cultural commentator have said. Experts who spoke to the Post said social media was a “double-edged sword” that…
A university in Hong Kong that “opened its doors to Harvard students” has made an offer of admission to one and is handling several transfer applications after the Trump administration last month barred the US Ivy League school from enrolling international candidates, many of whom are from mainland China. At least two other local universities…
China has expanded an initiative to create a new academic discipline that aims to stamp out Western bias in ethnic studies as Beijing works to consolidate its narrative on a unified national identity. The State Council, China’s cabinet, granted 15 more universities approval to set up study programmes in “community for the Chinese nation”, a…
Hong Kong and mainland Chinese manufacturers will be hit by Donald Trump’s planned reciprocal tariffs on all imports given the difficulty of replacing the United States market with alternatives, but the blanket penalty approach may eliminate the competitive edge of producers in other Asian countries as well, experts have said. Trump on Thursday announced plans…
Hong Kong and mainland Chinese manufacturers will be hit by Donald Trump’s planned reciprocal tariffs on all imports given the difficulty of replacing the United States market with alternatives, but the blanket penalty approach may eliminate the competitive edge of producers in other Asian countries as well, experts have said. Trump on Thursday announced plans…
An undergraduate at the Chinese University of Hong Kong has been suspended for forging sick notes to apply for an absence from an exam and a death certificate to secure an exemption from scholarship renewal requirements. The university on Sunday cited privacy concerns in declining to provide further details on the case, which came to…