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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

Chinese food Culture

Why did the noodle carrier cross the bridge?

TO FEED HER HUSBAND - and launch a celebrated item of Chinese regional cuisine. Visit "the land of eternal spring", southern China's Kunming, and you'll find a celebrated dish often called "crossing-the-bridge rice noodles". This bowl of deliciousness has been on the list of Kunming's intangible cultural heritage since 2008. Yunnan rice noodles (雲南米線) are…

September 26, 20240Comments ByEmily Zhou

News

Virtual HK tour’s remarkable effect on Alzheimer patients

In a really effective "roll down memory lane", a treatment that features a cycling trip around virtual 3D Hong Kong measurably improves three out of four Alzheimer’s patients. James Ockenden reports. A MAINLAND SCIENTIST'S unique Alzheimer’s Disease intervention therapy in Hong Kong is claiming remarkable results, with three out of four patients showing improvement…

September 24, 20240Comments ByJames Ockenden

News

EXCLUSIVE: Photo of ‘China spy meeting’ is a still from a Hong Kong movie!

AN IMAGE PRESENTED yesterday as evidence that a China-friendly Canadian met "triad leaders" is actually a scene from a Hong Kong movie, we can reveal today. The picture of people at a table in Macau [see upper image] was published in a media report yesterday as a "casino security clip" showing Hong Kong-based security…

September 5, 20240Comments ByNury Vittachi

China news News

Trump offer to let Chinese EV makers into US

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE DONALD TRUMP invited Chinese electric carmakers to enter the US market—as long as they made the China-designed cars in America. This would be a stark contrast to the Biden-Harris system of keeping the popular clean-energy cars out of the country by slapping a 100 per cent surcharge on them. BANKERS INTRIGUED The…

August 22, 20240Comments ByNury Vittachi

China news News

China and Africa media voices call for truthful coverage

IT MAY BE GOOD politics for the west to spend big money badmouthing China, but the process ultimately harms the poor, said speakers at an Africa-China communications forum yesterday. The negative news prevents Africans from taking advantage of the way China uses its skills in creating large scale infrastructure projects to boost trade within and…

August 22, 20240Comments ByNury Vittachi

Chinese medicine Culture

Scientists find Chinese mushroom fights common form of cancer

A MUSHROOM USED in ancient Chinese remedies successfully battles colorectal cancer, the second most common cause of cancer-related deaths across the world, scientists at a traditional Chinese medicine conference in Hong Kong said this week. It has long been believed that a Chinese mushroom with the scientific name of Amauroderma rugosum has antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, neuroprotective,…

August 16, 20240Comments ByNury Vittachi

China news Features Hong Kong News News

US weaponized ‘human rights’ against China: new study

THE U.S. WEAPONIZED the concept of human rights to hurt China, using it for decades to harm attempts by Chinese organizations and individuals to create relationships with people outside its borders, a new study says. It painted China as the motherlode of human rights violations, although this was not remotely true. Yet it was hard…

August 15, 20240Comments ByNury Vittachi

Hong Kong News News

Hong Kong firm dresses the world from base in Cambodia

A Hong Kong company named Goldfame, run by Catherine Chan (above) has become one of the world's most successful garment firms. Ryan Wu, a Form 4 student of PLK Tang Yuk Tien College, reports. AS A HIGH SCHOOL student, I participated in a Belt and Road Pioneer competition and won the championship, which resulting in my making…

August 8, 20240Comments ByRyan Wu

Features Hong Kong News

TV presenter’s book celebrates Hong Kong people’s success stories

HONG KONG TV presenter Victoria Tang Pui Kai (鄧蓓佳) wanted to do something positive for her community—so she decided to write a book featuring the success stories of the city's colorful individuals. These are "heart-warming and inspiring stories," she said. The collection, recently published, is called "I Love Hong Kong: Unlocking Infinite Possibilities with Our…

August 5, 20240Comments ByEmily Zhou