DeepSeek’s AI leap is a milestone innovation breakthrough for China but it does not change the overall leading position of the United States in the field of artificial intelligence, a prominent adviser to Beijing said. While the rise of DeepSeek has “naturally spawned a wave of strong nationalist sentiment”, Beijing should be sober that it…
In the first instalment of a series to mark the 10th anniversary of the Future Science Prize, Holly Chik and Shen Xinmei look at Professor Dennis Lo’s groundbreaking discovery of fetal DNA in maternal plasma, which earned him the inaugural award in the Life Sciences category in 2016. The blood tests of the future can…
A digital version of a common therapy for insomnia has helped to lower the incidence rate of depression in young people by more than 40 per cent, an Asia-first study carried out in Hong Kong and mainland China has found. The study, jointly conducted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s faculty of medicine and…
Hong Kong’s flu season is expected to peak at the end of February and last well into March or April as more residents bring the bug back from overseas, a respiratory disease expert has predicted, while a senior health official has warned vaccination rates among young children remain worryingly low. David Hui Shu-cheong, a professor…
Hong Kong’s flu season is expected to peak at the end of February and last well into March or April as more residents bring the bug back from overseas, a respiratory disease expert has predicted. David Hui Shu-cheong, a professor of respiratory medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said on Saturday the flu…
Most of the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s reserves have specific purposes and cannot be redirected arbitrarily, its president has said, adding that he hopes possible government funding cuts will not affect the institution’s new initiatives. Professor Dennis Lo Yuk-ming on Thursday acknowledged the city’s financial challenges, saying the university was willing to go through…
Chronically ill patients should consider delaying any planned trips to countries battling flu surges, Hong Kong medical experts have warned, while also urging travellers to keep a record of local emergency numbers and buy insurance ahead of their departure. The warning came after the family of 48-year-old Taiwanese actress Barbie “Big S” Hsu Shi-yuan revealed…
Hong Kong’s winter flu season is expected to peak in early February, a respiratory disease expert has predicted, with 15 deaths in the second week of January confirmed to be people infected with influenza. David Hui Shu-cheong, a professor of respiratory medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, called for more residents to get…
A former university professor brought two yoga balls filled with lethal gas to his Hong Kong home to exterminate shrews that had been attracted by the smell of Spanish ham, a court has heard in the trial over the alleged murder of his wife and daughter. Anaesthesiologist Khaw Kim Sun, 60, told the High Court…
Hong Kong community care teams that received mental health training are better at identifying hidden cases and communicating with those who are suffering, a study has found, while a lawmaker has urged authorities to expand the coverage of the course. Bill Tang Ka-piu of the Federation of Trade Unions said on Sunday the care teams…