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Hong Kong science and technology
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The IP industry accounts for about 30 per cent of Hong Kong’s gross domestic product and jobs. Photo: Eugene Lee
Hong Kong budget 2026-27

Exclusive | Hong Kong to boost IP economy with new academy, patent evaluation support

Initiatives to diversify the city’s economic development expected to be announced by Financial Secretary Paul Chan in his budget address.

Artificial intelligence

Hong Kong executives trail employees in AI adoption: McKinsey

Hong Kong economy

Opinion | Hong Kong’s budget should move the city towards ‘inspirational’ development

Hong Kong economy

Hong Kong workers lag regional peers in AI use, lose out on pay, security: PwC

PricewaterhouseCoopers survey finds half of Hong Kong workers use gen AI infrequently at work compared with 34 per cent for Asia-Pacific region.

The survey showed that only 19 per cent of local respondents attributed a salary increase to AI in the last 12 months, far below Asia-Pacific’s 46 per cent. Photo: Eugene Lee
Education in Hong Kong

AI mental health app helps Hong Kong students accentuate the positive

EmoCare, powered by artificial intelligence, began trial run last month, serving around 700 primary, secondary and university students.

Hong Kong

Hong Kong watchdog warns against using Musk’s Grok bot to create indecent images

Using AI’s image-editing function to ‘undress’ people or create malicious content could amount to criminal offences, privacy watchdog says.

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Hong Kong economy

Opinion | Northern Metropolis can combine best of central planning and free market

Guided by the national five-year plans, the Hong Kong government is changing policies and offering attractive terms for the project.

Illustration: Craig Stephens
Hong Kong transport

Hourly services at first automated Hong Kong public car park partially resume

Car park in Tseung Kwan O opened on December 29, but hourly parking services were suspended two days later.

Hong Kong society

Hong Kong students lauded for using AI to help elderly fulfil travel dreams

City leader’s wife says she hopes innovations can be leveraged ‘so that people of all ages and backgrounds can participate in voluntary work’.

Hong Kong economy

The Drone Age: hi-tech wizardry propels Hong Kong towards lift-off

As Hong Kong prepares to enter the era of flying taxis, key players roll out groundbreaking innovations at the cutting edge of technology.

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Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen
Hong Kong economy

Thousands of passenger, cargo drones will fill Hong Kong skies in decade: expert

Mainland Chinese eVTOL leader AutoFlight will spread wings in Hong Kong amid global push into flying taxi market.

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Autoflight’s Prosperity was on show at last year’s Super Terminal Expo 2025 in Hong Kong. Eugene Lee
CES

US visa denials cast a shadow over Hong Kong’s largest-ever delegation to CES

Hong Kong’s CES delegation includes start-ups from fields of health tech, artificial intelligence and new materials.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong scientists discover 2 new coral species in city’s southeastern waters

Baptist University researcher team, led by Professor Qiu Jianwen, discovers two previously unknown soft corals off Sung Kong Island.

Hong Kong

Hong Kong to launch ‘special channel’ for cross-border sensitive biological data

A ‘green channel’ and ‘white list’ system will allow samples and data to cross between innovation hubs in Lok Ma Chau and Shenzhen.

The Hetao Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone is being developed as a “special jurisdiction” between the city and mainland China. Photo: Xinhua
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Chinese University of Hong Kong to offer free autism test for 200 young children

University to launch pilot project in January using new technology that tests stool samples and provides results as quickly as one week later.

The pilot project allows for samples to be collected at home before being sent to a laboratory, with results ready in seven to 10 days. Photo: Edmond So
Education in Hong Kong

Hong Kong schools to get HK$500,000 each under AI education plan

Public primary and secondary schools interested are required to submit their application forms by February 2026.

Artificial intelligence

Hong Kong’s HKChat raises AI expectations as 90,000 users join app in debut week

HKChat tops free app ranking on Apple’s Hong Kong App Store on Sunday.

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Education in Hong Kong

Letters | As edtech tools grow, schools need to know which ones really work

Reader discuss the drive for quality assurance in educational technology, scholars’ responsibility to uphold transparency over AI use, and treating The Cenotaph with respect.

While the digital revolution in classrooms holds incredible promise to transform learning, if adopted without evidence it may do more harm than good. Photo: Shutterstock
Technology

Exclusive | HKSTP CEO Terry Wong’s vision for Hong Kong’s tech future

Fresh from three years on Saudi Arabia’s huge smart-city project, Wong aims to harness ecosystem effects to step up innovation in the city.

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Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Editorial | Genome project evidence of Hong Kong’s progress on biomedical hub goal

The large-scale genome sequencing project has exceeded its original targets and is already bearing fruit.

Hong Kong

Hong Kong Laureate Forum kicks off as city woos global science talent

The four-day event aims to facilitate exchanges between Shaw Prize winners and young scientists.

From left: Colin Lam, vice-chairman of Henderson Land Group and director of Lee Shau Kee Foundation; Chief Secretary Chan Kwok-ki; Timothy Tong, council chairman of the Hong Kong Laureate Forum; Raymond Chan, chair of the Shaw Prize Foundation. Photo: Handout
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Hong Kong’s large-scale genome sequencing project recruits 52,000 in 4 years

Hong Kong Genome Project aims to bring in extra 60,000 to 70,000 people in next five years to help uncover, treat undiagnosed diseases.

The Hong Kong Genome Project launched in 2021. Photo: Edmond So
Hong Kong

Hong Kong LinkedIn users urged to check privacy settings as AI training to resume

Professional networking site halted training in late 2024 after city’s privacy watchdog raised concerns about platform’s default opt-in data use.

Hong Kong economy

Hong Kong tech start-up wins Middle East investment offers after government push

GoGoChart, part of 110-member Hong Kong delegation to Future Investment Initiative forum last year, reveals various Middle East investors have offered funding.

Artificial intelligence

‘Slave’ to AI: Nobel Prize winners warn against technology overhype, dependency

Professors David Gross and Arieh Warshel also praised Hong Kong’s education system and focus on science at event exploring AI.

(From left) Nobel laureate David Gross, HKUST Chair Professor of Physics Law Kam-tuen, and Nobel laureate Arieh Warshel spoke on the topic of fundamental science and the age of AI. Photo: Jonathan Wong
US-China relations

Update | US Nobel laureate praises Hong Kong, expresses concern about China science impasse

Randy Schekman, who won Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2013, also lauded Hong Kong for openness and free spirit.

Randy Schekman delivers his keynote speech at the conference. Photo: Handout
Hong Kong society

Hong Kong’s John Lee champions Shaw Prize vision, pays tribute to late physicist

City leader among those paying respects to Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Chen-ning Yang, who died in Beijing on Saturday.

Artificial intelligence

Hong Kong least ready for AI adoption among global markets: survey

Only 2 per cent of organisations in Hong Kong are fully prepared for AI, the lowest among all markets surveyed by Cisco.

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