Hongkonger Shirley Chang, 82, plays pickleball regularly, takes a weekly class to learn Chinese ink painting and teaches her friends how to play bridge. The former businesswoman, who lives with a domestic helper in the Mid-Levels, said she was enjoying her retirement years by staying healthy, maintaining an active lifestyle and searching for new experiences….
Award-winning computer scientist Quan Guocong has joined Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou in southern China as an associate professor after years of study and research in the United States. Quan, 30, is an expert in caching technology and network optimisation. He earned his PhD from Ohio State University and was a research scientist at Meta…
An innovation competition co-organised by China’s fintech giant Ant Group and renowned universities including the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is featuring robotics for the first time, a reflection of rising interest in the technology. The ATEC Championship 2025, hosted by the industry-university-research collaboration platform Advanced Technology Exploration Community (ATEC), has adopted the theme…
Retiree Li Chun underwent various treatments for lymphoma for nine years before a new “living drug” produced in Hong Kong finally made a difference. The cancerous tumours she had lived with for so long began clearing up after she received treatment under a Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) clinical trial last October. A big,…
Hong Kong aims to train more doctors to ease its long-term manpower crunch, with the city’s two medical schools receiving funding for an extra 60 places for undergraduate programmes in September, including 50 for graduates pursuing a second degree, budget documents show. The documents also revealed a 40 per cent increase in the number of…
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…