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H.C. Lu

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Hong Kong sets sights on health and medical innovation hub

Hong Kong’s health authorities have set their sights to revamp incumbent mechanism of registering new medicine and medical devices, transforming Hong Kong into a global health and medical innovation hub. Delivering a keynote speech on the second day of HKBIO 2024 conference, Secretary for Health Lo Chung-mau said the city has strived to become an…

October 21, 20240Comments ByH.C. Lu

Hong Kong News News

Shanghai’s Fudan University strives to enhance biotech innovation and groom talents

Shanghai-based Fudan University has accelerated its efforts on biotech scientific exploration and decoding of life sciences to enhance precision medicine and healthcare management, as well as grooming more top-notch talents. Delivering a keynote speech on the closing day of the BIOHK 2024 conference, Fudan University’s President Jin Li (金力校長) said that the institution has been…

October 21, 20240Comments ByH.C. Lu

Hong Kong News News

Biotech enterprises and start-ups thrive in Hong Kong

Hong Kong's government has accentuated support to the research and development (R&D) in life and health technology and fostered more businesses and start-ups from around the world to invest in the city. Speaking to biotech firms and venture capitals’ top management, executives and investors on the third day of BIOHK 2024 conference, Dr Cathy Lui…

October 21, 20240Comments ByH.C. Lu

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Sports tourism poised to inject fresh vibrancy to Hong Kong

HONG KONG CAN embrace tourism and entertainment activities with mega-sized sports events to woo more global tourist arrivals amid the grand opening of the Kai Tak Sports Park, and the co-hosting of the 2025 National Games, the sports sector’s leaders and think tank Our Hong Kong Foundation said last week. The Kai Tak Sports Park…

October 14, 20240Comments ByH.C. Lu

Hong Kong News News

Hong Kong emerging as a global biotech hub

HONG KONG IS WELL-POSITIONED to develop a vibrant and international biotech hub with its world-class universities, advanced research and development facilities and an exemplary ecosystem. Policymakers, experts, academics, top enterprises' executives, capital investors and others in biotech industry were seen at the BIOHK2024 convention, held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre on September…

September 26, 20240Comments ByH.C. Lu

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Expatriate travellers flock to China under visa-free transit policy

THE RECENT EXPANSION of the 144-hour visa-free transit policy in Mainland China has caused the number of foreigners visiting our country to surge in the first six months of this year. Currently, foreign travellers from 54 countries are eligible for short-term travelling in the country under the visa-free transit policy. The list includes the US,…

July 31, 20240Comments ByH.C. Lu

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How Olympic hero Vivian Kong nearly gave up her sport

VIVIAN KONG MAN-WAI (江旻憓) tore her torn anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee in 2017 during a practice and then the one in her right knee in 2019. The damage was so bad, she had to undergo surgery. Although Kong was only in her 20s, her mother asked her to take early retirement as…

July 31, 20240Comments ByH.C. Lu

News

Hong Kong set to draw on strengths on financing and professional services for trading bloc RCEP

Hong Kong is set to draw on its strength in financial services and the full range of professional services to tap into the world’s largest trading bloc Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu said the majority of the members of the RCEP have responded warmly to Hong Kong’s application to join…

July 16, 20240Comments ByH.C. Lu

Culture

Hong Kong’s Gold Pen Award fosters spirits of traditional Chinese virtues

A Gold Pen Award (金筆獎) presentation ceremony has been held to honour students from Hong Kong and the Mainland to foster the spirits of traditional Chinese virtues and values. The 2024 Gold Pen Award on penmanship for primary and secondary students on virtues of filial piety and fraternal care was jointly organised by Hong Kong…

July 4, 20240Comments ByH.C. Lu

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Hong Kong ‘must prepare for climate challenges’

CLIMATE ADVOCATE NATALIE CHUNG called for Hong Kong to prepare for more climate challenges and map out a resilient response. Global warming is one of the most challenging issues that Hong Kong and the world are facing and it requires collective efforts by the government and various sectors to resolve it, she said. Last year,…

May 24, 20240Comments ByH.C. Lu

H.C. Lu

Hong Kong sets sights on health and medical innovation hub

Shanghai’s Fudan University strives to enhance biotech innovation and groom talents

Biotech enterprises and start-ups thrive in Hong Kong

Sports tourism poised to inject fresh vibrancy to Hong Kong

Hong Kong emerging as a global biotech hub

Expatriate travellers flock to China under visa-free transit policy

How Olympic hero Vivian Kong nearly gave up her sport

Hong Kong set to draw on strengths on financing and professional services for trading bloc RCEP

Hong Kong’s Gold Pen Award fosters spirits of traditional Chinese virtues

Hong Kong ‘must prepare for climate challenges’

The US-China etiquette gap: one society has historically valued order

You can literally commit mass murder and The Economist will give you a thumbs-up

Time to accelerate tech integration between Hong Kong and Shenzhen