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The 2026 CES logo outside the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, on January 5. Photo: AFP
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

Hong Kong

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

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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Hong Kong

Cancer drug specialist to set up HK$600 million production line in Hong Kong

Advanced Isotopes Technology Asia will set up plant at Tai Po InnoPark under scheme to boost new industrialisation.

Advanced Isotopes Technology Asia will set up three production lines at Tai Po InnoPark. Photo: Handout
Hong Kong economy

Action plan to develop Hong Kong’s low-altitude economy to lift off next year

Deputy Financial Secretary Michael Wong hopes passenger drone trials will get green light from civil aviation chief.

Hong Kong

Hong Kong Science Park aims to double number of start-ups in incubation scheme

Hong Kong Science and Technology Park launches upgraded life and health tech-focused incubation programme Incu-Bio.

Open Questions series

Open Questions | Top mathematician on China’s talent gap, role of pure science

Tsinghua University’s Shing-Tung Yau on how China can stop being a follower in science, an opportunity for Hong Kong and chaos in Trump’s US.

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Illustration: Henry Wong
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Alzheimer’s gene variant in Chinese linked to rapid decline: Hong Kong study

HKUST researchers also stress urgent need for database cataloguing genes of ethnic Chinese people with Alzheimer’s disease.

The research team has identified the gene variant TREM2 H157Y as potentially leading to more rapidly deteriorating cases of Alzheimer’s. Photo: Getty Images
Northern Metropolis

Opinion | To succeed, Northern Metropolis should learn from Silicon Valley model

Government guidance must set the stage, top local universities must star in the show and the market ecosystem must be cultivated for support.

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Hong Kong to look for early lung cancer signs with new AI screening tools

Secretary for Health Lo Chung-mau also says medical fee waiver scheme will be expanded to cover up to 2 million residents.

Artificial intelligence

Hong Kong picks 3 departments to test if AI can boost government efficiency

Innovation chief says main aim is to improve administrative processes, not reduce costs, and urges public not to equate AI use with job cuts.

The ultimate aim is for all government departments to improve their efficiency by using AI, a minister has said. Photo: Elson Li
Hong Kong economy

Opinion | How AI can catalyse Hong Kong’s next big economic take-off

The policy address placed AI at the heart of economic strategy. It is time to match ambition with execution.

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Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu attends a press conference on September 17 following his policy address. The policy address declared AI a “core industry”. Photo: Elson Li
Hong Kong economy

Hongkongers to enjoy ‘dividends’ of Northern Metropolis, John Lee promises

City leader stresses importance of using public funds to accelerate development of I&T, housing megaproject, citing 2001 case of science park.

John Lee policy address 2025

Opinion | Hong Kong doubles down on innovation and accountability for its future

From embracing new development models to holding civil servants accountable, the 2025 policy address could be the most transformative yet.

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