Six universities in Hong Kong have finished in the top 50 of a closely watched league table in Asia for the first time since 2017, with the city’s two oldest tertiary education institutions ranking among the 10 best in the region. The 2025 Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings, published on Thursday, saw Baptist University…
Six universities in Hong Kong have finished in the top 50 of a closely watched league table in Asia for the first time since 2017, with the city’s two oldest tertiary education institutions ranking among the 10 best in the region. The 2025 Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings, published on Thursday, saw Baptist University…
Sun Hung Kai Properties (SHKP), Hong Kong’s largest property developer, received more than 21,000 cheques for 329 units at its massive Sierra Sea residential project in the New Territories, indicating that attractive pricing can drive home sales in the city despite economic jitters, according to agents. The first round of sales on Saturday will feature…
Hong Kong tertiary institutions should ramp up efforts to advance technology and nurture talent to further contribute to China’s modernisation, Beijing’s point man on the city’s affairs has said as he meets leaders of a public university. Xia Baolong, director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, met Council Chairman Harry Shum Heung-yeung and…
The proportion of first-year, non-local undergraduates at Hong Kong’s public universities who come from mainland China has increased to 75 per cent, while the percentage of the intake hailing from other countries has fallen, raising concerns over whether the city can meet its goal of internationalising its campuses. Data obtained by the Post from the…
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…
Baptist University has said it can handle a 3 to 5 per cent cut in public funding over the next three years in the face of the Hong Kong government’s fiscal deficit, a day after City University indicated the same. Baptist University president Alexander Wai Ping-kong on Friday also expressed confidence his institution could win…
Hong Kong will go all out to build an ecosystem for innovation and technology development by gathering talent with innovative perspectives, the financial secretary has said, after a dinner with US chipmaker Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang and other I&T experts on Saturday. In his weekly blog on Sunday, Paul Chan Mo-po shared a photograph of…
The head of US chipmaker Nvidia has pledged to maintain the company’s presence in mainland China despite rising geopolitical tensions, while also highlighting the country’s unique strengths in capitalising on artificial intelligence (AI) and trends that have upended industries from medicine to robotics. Jensen Huang on Saturday also encouraged Hong Kong’s university students to pursue…
The CEO of the largest US chipmaker and market-cap leader, Nvidia, has pledged to maintain its presence in China and stressed the importance of global cooperation, while encouraging Hong Kong’s university graduates to join the company. Jensen Huang was also joined by Hong Kong movie legend Tony Leung Chiu-wai when the pair received their honorary…