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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

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Sunny Chai: When the god of scales weighed his options

ONE OF THE MOST positive moments in Sunny Chai Ngai-chiu’s life was, in a way, also one of the most negative. And that proved a turning point for him. He was in his 30s when he stood before a panel of experts. He was a finalist for the prestigious title of Young Industrialist Award of…

March 22, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Climber aims to scale physical and mental peaks

THE HIGHEST POINT on Earth is an irregular slope measuring just three to four square meters in size. The air is thin, the temperature is freezing and the rocks are encased in a three-meter-thick covering of ice blanket. These are sights only seen first-hand by those who successfully reach the summit of Mount Everest, people…

March 16, 20220Comments ByLinda Xi Tianqi

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Top doctor Tony Mok reveals family’s rags-to-riches past

ONE OF HONG KONG'S best-known doctors revealed that his family came from a rags-to-riches background. Oncologist Tony Mok Shu-kam, also known as a TV host and magazine columnist, revealed the extraordinary early life of his father. When Mok Senior was just eleven, living in Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation, he lost his own…

March 15, 20220Comments BySeth Mallick

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China making more electric cars than all other nations put together

BUSINESS BRIEFING: Big jump in output of electric vehicles from mainland; in West, defence spending to rise "substantially"; and there are calls for the definition of socially positive investing A STUDY SHOWS CHINA is now producing more environmentally friendly electric cars than all other countries put together. “China accounted for 57.4% of the [global]…

March 13, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

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‘One country two systems’ was for Taiwan: Maria Tam

The "one country, two systems" formula was originally designed for Taiwan, rather than Hong Kong, top lawyer Maria Tam said. It was not China but Britain who didn’t want Hong Kong people to have universal suffrage, the Basic Law drafter added. Meanwhile, Hong Kong’s political system has a surprise “expat-friendly” element which makes it uniquely…

March 8, 20220Comments BySeth Mallick

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Mainland leaders actively working for Hong Kong’s good

Hong Kong was in the spotlight at the annual meeting of China’s parliament on Monday Vice-Premier focused on the city in special session with 17 Hong Kong deputies Pandemic and livelihood issues are key focuses CHINA’S LEADER XI JINPING personally expressed a high level of concern about the latest pandemic situation in Hong…

March 8, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

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Bridge-builder reveals childhood illness that changed his life

ONE OF HONG KONG'S best-known businessman-politicians, Bernard Chan, revealed how a chronic health problem hit him as a teenager—and how learning to paint with a tiny bottle of correction fluid got him back on track. The convenor of the Executive Council, Hong Kong’s top governing body, told a TV interviewer that he was hit by…

February 20, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Mainland anti-Covid plan could work in Hong Kong

SOME PEOPLE ARE saying that the “test the whole population” system that worked so well in China could not be implemented in a non-mainland city like Hong Kong, which leans towards Western individualism rather than Chinese cohesiveness. That may not be true. The same Chinese “universal testing” program was tried in Macao, which has…

February 19, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

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UK takeaway assistant became a leader in China

A FORMER WORKER at a Chinese takeaway in the southern English city of Bristol has become a senior leader in China. Leung Chun-ying, who earned £10.50 (US$14) a week selling Chinese food, curry and chips, at a humble high street eatery is now vice chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, a top governing…

February 14, 20220Comments BySeth Mallick

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Hong Kong is world’s second biggest biotech funding hub

Sunny Chai: When the god of scales weighed his options

Climber aims to scale physical and mental peaks

Top doctor Tony Mok reveals family’s rags-to-riches past

China making more electric cars than all other nations put together

‘One country two systems’ was for Taiwan: Maria Tam

Mainland leaders actively working for Hong Kong’s good

Bridge-builder reveals childhood illness that changed his life

Mainland anti-Covid plan could work in Hong Kong

UK takeaway assistant became a leader in China

Incredible story of how a farming province in China beat London, L.A. and Chicago in science rankings

In Xinjiang, I stepped into a different world

City of the future: Hong Kong is just about to go through a transformation