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…
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…
A former university professor in Hong Kong asked his wife for a divorce but subsequently refused her request for one before allegedly murdering her with a gas-filled yoga ball nine years ago, a court heard on Friday. The High Court retrial heard testimony about the unhappy marriage between Malaysian Khaw Kim Sun and his wife…