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…
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China is vying with Japan and Britain to host the 2030 maths Olympics for the second time, after it first held the event in 2002, an initiative led by eminent mathematician Shing-Tung Yau. Yau is leading a team of 40 Chinese and international mathematicians in the bid for the 2030 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM),…