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The Baptist University campus in Kowloon Tong. When asked what the university would do to accommodate budget cuts, its president said enrolling more non-local students or increasing their tuition fees were options. Photo: Felix Wong
Hong Kong economy

Hong Kong Baptist University, like CityU, can ‘afford’ 3 to 5% spending cut

President Alexander Wai also confident his institution can win bid for third medical school with advisers ‘not exposed to geopolitical risks’.

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Help for 5,000 in Hong Kong traditional Chinese medicine mental health project

Education in Hong Kong

3 universities in Hong Kong among top 10 in major ranking of Asian institutions

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Education in Hong Kong

Universities in Hong Kong admit more non-local students after intake quota doubled

Baptist University says number of first-year, non-local students for 2024-25 to increase by nearly 200 per cent from last year.

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Baptist University has recorded a significant increase in its intake for first-year, non- local students. Photo: Nora Tam
Crime in Hong Kong

3 arrested in Hong Kong for alleged HK$1.3 million fraud at student union

Two Baptist University students among trio arrested after union discovers funds transferred to bank accounts for personal use.

Science

China sends international crew to explore underwater mountains in submersible

Foreign scientists will get a close look at the sprawling Magellan Seamounts on board the Jiaolong, which can dive up to 7,000 metres.

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Hong Kong politics

Xi urges Hong Kong entrepreneurs to help with nation’s reform in rare letter

Chinese president thanked city’s business leaders with Ningbo ancestry for their support after they wrote to him about their contributions.

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The Chinese leader’s letter is “a signal of reassurance and encouragement” to the private sector, one expert said. Photo: Xinhua
Education in Hong Kong

How a 9-year-old boy aced Hong Kong’s DSE exams and what’s next

Bryan Leung only decided to take the tests as a challenge after watching a YouTube tutorial and says he’s in no hurry to skip more grades

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China’s Communist Party

Cooking oil scandal may prompt China to tighten food safety policies

With limited censorship around report and harsh criticism from state media, observer says Beijing appears to be ‘facing this problem head-on’.

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Books and literature

How Gabriel Garcia Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude changed her life

As an art student, Hilarie Hon Hang-lam wanted to go against her professor’s wishes and paint for her final work. Reading Gabriel Garcia Márquez’s book convinced her to stick to her principles.

As an art student, Hilarie Hon Hang-lam (above) wanted to go against her professor’s wishes and paint for her final work. Reading Gabriel Garcia Márquez’s book convinced her to stick to her principles. Photo: Hilarie Hon
Wellness

How Hong Kong plans to integrate more TCM into its healthcare system

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is gaining wider recognition for helping treat disease and Hong Kong is keen to blend it with Western medicine in its hospitals, but some obstacles stand in the way.

Acupuncture is the most common form of traditional Chinese medicine in use at Hong Kong hospitals. The city is taking steps to more fully integrate TCM into its healthcare system, but there are some challenges to overcome. Photo: Shutterstock
China manufacturing

China’s EV overcapacity may set it on a political collision course with the US

Fresh US tariffs targeting China’s new-energy sector are imminent, threatening to thwart export efforts aimed at alleviating a market oversupply.

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Israel-Gaza war

As pro-Palestine slogans sweep US campuses, where are the Chinese students?

Many Chinese students in the US are outraged by the loss of innocent lives in Palestine, but have avoided direct participation in the protests.

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Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

What a view | Why Hong Kong producer and lyricist Saville Chan wants the director’s chair

Hong Kong film producer, screenwriter and award-winning lyricist Saville Chan tells Post Magazine why he hopes his future lies in the director’s chair.

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Hong Kong film producer, screenwriter and award-winning lyricist Saville Chan tells Post Magazine why he hopes his future lies in the director’s chair. Photo: Saville Chan
Get to Know

Who is Payal Shah? Meet Hong Kong’s pre-eminent female Web3 entrepreneur

Her brand L’Dezen was one of the first jewellery companies to incorporate NFTs, enabling customers to assume both physical and digital ownership of pieces – but these days Shah is more interested in AI

Who is Payal Shah? Meet Hong Kong’s pre-eminent female Web3 entrepreneur and the founder of jewellery brand L’Dezen, who says she wants AI ‘to include all genders. Photo: May Tse
China-Japan relations

Chinese nationalists take aim at Japanese animation master Miyazaki’s WWII film

Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron is a box office success in China, but some say the Studio Ghibli co-founder’s anti-war stance is ‘hypocritical’ as the film portrays Japanese characters as victims.

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US-China relations

Yellen in China: ‘difficult conversations’, overcapacity spat add to tensions

US Treasury secretary says Beijing needs to make policy changes, while warning that Washington and its allies fear ‘global spillovers’ from China’s trade actions.

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Science

Protein in muscles plays key role in recovery after exercise, study finds

Known as BDNF, it signals to the body to replenish energy reserves after a workout, international research team says.

After an exercise session the body generates more of the protein BDNF to tell skeletal muscles it’s time to replenish, according to the study. Photo: Reuters
China's economic recovery

China’s cross-boundary investment offerings leave avid investors underwhelmed

A product which allows residents of mainland China to make deposits in Hong Kong has underwhelmed as a route for investment, leaving potential users wishing for more expansive options.

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Education in Hong Kong

Hong Kong’s Baptist University says it wants to move to new Northern Metropolis

Baptist University president says it would be prepared to move all or part of its campus from prime Kowloon Tong site to Northern Metropolis.

China's economic recovery

Radio silence on China’s economic plenum suggests reform still in the back seat

Lack of detail on a crucial economic policy meeting, along with other messaging that indicates emphasis on political cohesion, suggests growth and recovery are still not top of mind for China’s leadership.

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Mixed messages and a lack of firm action on growth and recovery have observers and business groups worried over the precedence of politics above economic recovery. Photo: Reuters
Yuan

China’s yuan replaces US dollar as ‘primary’ currency for Russia’s foreign trade

Russian central bank governor Elvira Nabiullina says the yuan’s share in Russia’s exports has increased from 0.4 to 34.5 per cent, replacing the US dollar and euro as its ‘primary’ currency for foreign economic activity.

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The yuan’s share in Russia’s exports has increased from 0.4 to 34.5 per cent over the last two years, and with imports witnessing an eightfold increase to 36.4 per cent, according to Russian central bank governor Elvira Nabiullina. Photo: Reuters
Science

Researchers contest early findings that Wuhan was epicentre of Covid pandemic

Mathematicians from Germany and Hong Kong say ‘the market is not more likely to be the origin’ when compared to other nearby landmarks, although they do not offer a hypothesis on where the outbreak started.

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China GDP

China’s Guangdong to ‘shoulder major responsibility’ to aid economic growth

Guangdong would ‘pace up construction’ of China’s Greater Bay Area plan in 2024, having set an economic growth target of 5 per cent, governor Wang Weizhong said on Tuesday.

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Taiwan election 2024

In Taiwan election wake, PLA resumes regular military activities near island

After a hiatus on Saturday, PLA aircraft were back in action on Monday but not at noticeably higher levels than usual.

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The PLA has resumed sending aircraft near Taiwan. Photo: EPA-EFE/Xinhua
Art

Hong Kong’s Art Future Awards give young Asian artists a much-needed leg-up

Hong Kong Baptist University recently hosted the inaugural Art Future Awards, which it co-founded to give young artists a platform at a time when few art galleries are focused on nurturing them.

Xiong Zheng’s “Wish of pebble,” which won second place in the inaugural Art Futures Awards. Photo: Courtesy of Hong Kong Baptist University.
Art

Hong Kong artists’ Shenzhen shows look at cities’ shared anxieties

At two exhibitions in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, Hong Kong artists consider the changed landscape of their city and the possibility of connecting people across borders.

Hong Kong celebrities and icons

‘Welcome to my new world’: Hong Kong singer Jace Chan making it on her own

Hong Kong singer Jace Chan has released a new EP, Hatching, the fruit of 10 months spent focusing on herself and writing after her label, Universal Music, shelved her career at the beginning of 2023.

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