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Big funds now available for writers, artists and musicians

IMAGINE A PLACE where the world’s biggest Western-style art museum is right next door to the world’s biggest Chinese opera theatre. And imagine that in this town, the most Westernized of cultural events, like the Rugby Sevens and DJ competitions, run side by side with the most Easternized of counterparts, such as dragon-boat races and…

April 18, 20230Comments ByH.C. Lu

News

China’s universities set to lead the world: Harvard professor

THE UNIVERSITIES OF Greater China will lead the world of education in the coming century, if they can continue to collaborate internationally, a top Harvard professor said yesterday at a forum organized by Our Hong Kong Foundation. The concept of modern universities began in Germany, but that country was overtaken by the United States in…

April 17, 20230Comments ByNury Vittachi

Features

Scientists battle to keep food on your table

MOST SCIENTIFIC STUDIES are dull, with researchers patiently waiting for lengthy processes to produce data. But sometimes they can be just a bit too exciting—and scientists need to move fast, working on a wing and prayer. Food scientist Anthony Lu told the story of how he was working on a cutting-edge experiment just before flying…

April 4, 20230Comments ByH.C. Lu

News

Bolivia warns ‘anti-democratic’ US off its lithium mountain

THE LEADER OF Bolivia said it didn't want interference in its lithium deals from the destabilizers of democracy – the United States. “We don't want our lithium to be in the [U.S. military] Southern Command's crosshairs, nor do we want it to be a reason for destabilizing democratically elected governments or foreign harassment,” said Bolivian…

March 27, 20230Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

Now Europeans move to support China peace plan

NEGOTIATIONS ARE TAKING place for talks between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky. Europeans are upbeat. “We very much hope that the phone call will take place as soon as possible,” Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte told CNBC this week. Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a supporter of the peace…

March 25, 20230Comments ByNury Vittachi

Features

How Donnie Yen is quietly educating Hollywood

IT'S EVERY ACTOR'S dream to be in a hugely successful movie franchises such as John Wick and Star Wars. But when Donnie Yen sees the scripts for such movies, he sighs. You can probably guess what he tends to see, even in big budget productions with the highest paid writers and producers on board. For…

March 23, 20230Comments ByNury Vittachi

Opinion

Strong performance in the past, good prospects ahead

TIME HAS REALLY FLOWN over the past five years. That’s what one feels when considering the Standing Committee’s work report for the 13th National People’s Congress. So much has been achieved at a good pace. Laws have been formulated, revised and explained, decisions have been made on legal and related matters, and resolutions have been…

March 21, 20230Comments ByHerman Hu

Features

In China, power is being transferred to the people

Most English-language coverage of the recent major meetings in China simply reported that the country's leader started a third term,. But there were many important developments at the annual meetings of the NPC and the CPPCC which show that power is being transferred to the people. Hong Kong’s Dr Herman Hu Shao-ming, who participated in…

March 21, 20230Comments ByHerman Hu

Opinion

Banning our trade offices will harm Hong Kong people

Hong Kong's film makers and fashion designers would be hit if US politicians succeed in banning the city's trade representative offices, which actively promote their works. This is the latest in a long list of strategies that harm Hong Kong people but are dressed up as "saving" us. In reality Hong Kong and the United…

March 16, 20230Comments ByAndrew Lam

China news

New giant dinosaur makes giraffe look tiny

A HUGE DINOSAUR that makes a giraffe look small roamed northwest China 160 million years ago, scientists said yesterday. The massive beast had an enormous neck and would have weighed about 70 tons. The news came from a new analysis of bones found in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in 1987. Scientists realized they were…

March 16, 20230Comments ByNury Vittachi

Big funds now available for writers, artists and musicians

China’s universities set to lead the world: Harvard professor

Scientists battle to keep food on your table

Bolivia warns ‘anti-democratic’ US off its lithium mountain

Now Europeans move to support China peace plan

How Donnie Yen is quietly educating Hollywood

Strong performance in the past, good prospects ahead

In China, power is being transferred to the people

Banning our trade offices will harm Hong Kong people

New giant dinosaur makes giraffe look tiny

FAQ: Is Hong Kong’s ‘Friday’ news project a commie plot from Beijing?

Hong Kong now has world’s top insurance penetration rate

Space: a new business frontier is opening up over our heads