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The govt is sending you Chinese medicine. Is it safe?

Some people are nervous about taking Chinese medicine. Don't be. It's good stuff, widely used around the world, it provides ingredients to Western medicine, and one practicioner won a Nobel Prize in medicine for a recipe she found in an ancient Chinese book of remedies. Aleesha Naqvi reports MANY NON-CHINESE Hong Kongers have probably never…

ByAleesha NaqviApril 5, 20220Comments

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The boy who had to see for himself: Allan Zeman

At 16, he was earning more than his teachers At 19, he flew across the world to look for his fortune In a noisy factory in Kowloon, he found it IT WAS 1968, Hey Jude was on every radio, and a tall thin teenager disembarked from a Panam flight at Kai Tak airport in Hong…

ByNury VittachiApril 4, 20220Comments

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Facts vs politics in the ‘living with Covid’ debate

China’s firm, serious approach to managing the Covid pandemic has differed from that of many other countries, and has clearly worked rather well. Yet Western media outlets feel compelled to tell China that it has slipped badly behind the times by not shifting, as they have, to Living with Covid. Seeing other (surely inferior!) societies doing…

ByRichard CullenMarch 31, 20220Comments

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Why Hong Kong’s Omicron death toll suddenly soared

For two years, Hong Kong demonstrated an admirable capacity to retain robust control of COVID-19 outbreaks. This durable achievement was, however, grimly transformed by the Omicron driven fifth wave of COVID cases. Richard Cullen looks at what went wrong A RESPECTED, VETERAN Hong Kong journalist, Peter Kammerer, argued in the South China Morning Post…

ByRichard CullenMarch 31, 20220Comments

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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…

ByH.C. LuMarch 24, 20220Comments

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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…

ByNury VittachiMarch 22, 20220Comments

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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…

ByLinda Xi TianqiMarch 16, 20220Comments

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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…

BySeth MallickMarch 15, 20220Comments

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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]…

ByFriday WritersMarch 13, 20220Comments

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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…

BySeth MallickMarch 8, 20220Comments

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The govt is sending you Chinese medicine. Is it safe?

The boy who had to see for himself: Allan Zeman

Facts vs politics in the ‘living with Covid’ debate

Why Hong Kong’s Omicron death toll suddenly soared

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

Hong Kong’s earliest authentic cuisine may surprise you

Hong Kong’s best years are coming: McKinsey chief

One country wins top 31 spots in global science survey