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H.C. Lu

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Palace Museum as an architectural landmark

(Caption: Look closely at the thousands of aluminium panels on the side walls and you can see the classical Chinese influence on what looks like a very contemporary building. Image: China State Construction Engineering (Hong Kong)) WHEN GLOBALLY ACCLAIMED Hong Kong architect Rocco Yim Sen-kee took the helm of designing the city’s new Palace…

July 11, 20220Comments ByH.C. Lu

Culture

The rock man’s scroll and other treasures at new museum

The Hong Kong Palace Museum is set to open on July 2 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the city’s reunification with China. This publication is running features on some of the items you can see there. H.C. Lu highlights some treasures. ALMOST A THOUSAND years ago there lived a calligrapher, poet and painter named…

June 30, 20220Comments ByH.C. Lu

Features

Student skipped his exam to fly to a video game meeting

Tabe Wong took a huge risk, but it paid off, and now he's an esports star Esports is now a legitimate career, and even offers academic options Hong Kong has the largest esports stadium in Asia, the HK$30 million Cyber Games Arena in Mong Kok IT WAS EXAM DAY. Thousands of Hong Kong students checked…

June 14, 20220Comments ByH.C. Lu

News

China soon to produce twice as many scientists as U.S.

There may be some truth in the stereotype of the geeky Chinese student, skilled at science and mathematics China is producing three graduates in science and engineering fields for every two in America, a study showed. The students are focusing on aeronautics, drones, space exploration, and a home-grown GPS system THE PICTURE AT the top…

May 25, 20220Comments ByH.C. Lu

Opinion

Cut red tape to boost Hong Kong housing

CUMBERSOME PROCEDURES in town planning are a key factor exacerbating Hong Kong’s housing shortage. At present, it takes at least 10 years to transform a plot of land into an apartment block. There are numerous stages to go through, from preliminary town planning, to transformation of the land into “spade-ready” sites, to completion of flat…

April 12, 20220Comments ByH.C. Lu

Features

To be a ‘smart city’ Hong Kong is cultivating smart people

Hong Kong's definition of "smart city" includes smart people: 60% of senior secondary students study one or more STEM-related elective subjects in 2019/20, every student has to study mathematics, and the city has four of the world's top universities. H.C. Lu reports. HONG KONG WAS CRITICIZED by some newspapers last year for scoring relatively…

April 6, 20220Comments ByH.C. Lu

Culture

Online access to Tang Dynasty art classics

SOME OF THE GREATEST classic art in the region came from the Tang Dynasty -- extraordinary murals, capturing life more than a thousand years ago. Click here to join a virtual journey which takes you back in time into the heart of Chang’an, the biggest city in the world at that time. The video…

April 4, 20220Comments ByH.C. Lu

Features

Hong Kong is world’s second biggest biotech funding hub

TINY HONG KONG is now the second largest biotech fundraising hub in the world. By far the largest in Asia, it is second only to New York in raising funds for health-related companies. The southern Chinese city has been moving up the scale since a dramatic stock market reform in 2018 allowed biotech firms…

March 24, 20220Comments ByH.C. Lu

Culture

Sorry, cafe society, tea-drinkers are still ahead

CHINA’S NATIONAL DRINK, tea, is the most popular drink in the world. More of it consumed than all the cappuccinos, lattes and espressos in the world. At least one study says more tea is drunk than all other drinks put together -- coffee, fizzy drinks, wine, beer, juice and everything else. The daily number of…

March 21, 20220Comments ByH.C. Lu

Culture

Suzhou’s eternal gardens touch the soul

IN APRIL OF 1977, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was taken on a visit to one of the many legendary classical Chinese gardens of Suzhou. The one chosen for her was called The Garden of the Futility of Politics. The extraordinary name surely stuck in the British leader's mind--particularly as she would go on to…

March 15, 20220Comments ByH.C. Lu

H.C. Lu

Palace Museum as an architectural landmark

The rock man’s scroll and other treasures at new museum

Student skipped his exam to fly to a video game meeting

China soon to produce twice as many scientists as U.S.

Cut red tape to boost Hong Kong housing

To be a ‘smart city’ Hong Kong is cultivating smart people

Online access to Tang Dynasty art classics

Hong Kong is world’s second biggest biotech funding hub

Sorry, cafe society, tea-drinkers are still ahead

Suzhou’s eternal gardens touch the soul

Starmer meets Xi today, hopes to rebuild UK’s relationship

Treasures from 800-year-old sunken vessel exhibited in Hong Kong

At the Great Wall, I learned how the Chinese dealt with their enemies