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01 Mar 2013Skykiwi - “石屎森林”如何“宜居”？ 专家给AKL规划开药方香港大学商学院教授Michael Enright曾参与粤港等地多项战略规划，在他看来，奥克兰别说是世界最宜居城市，连新西兰最宜居城市可能都算不上。
26 Feb 2013Organic Chemistry - Arrays of Stereogenic Centers: The Carbery Synthesis of Mycestericin GChi-Ming Che of the University of Hong Kong devised a manganese catalyst for the enantioselective cis-dihydroxylation of electron-deficient alkenes
26 Feb 2013The Wall Street Journal - IKEA Drawn Into Horse-Meat ScandalIKEA temporarily stopped selling meatballs at some of its European stores after inspectors discovered traces of horse meat in the furniture giant's signature food item. Dr. Richard Fielding, a professor at the University of Hong Kong's school of public he
22 Feb 2013CIDRAP - WHO confirms 13th novel coronavirus caseAdditional evidence of person-to-person spread has some experts concerned, the CP reported. "It is certainly beginning to look concerning, given the obvious fact that there can be onward transmission," said Malik Peiris, PhD, a microbiologist at the Unive
15 Feb 2013Catholic Online - Lethal new SARS-like virus has infected 11 people - Health & Wellness"The low number spread over a long period suggests that sporadic jumping from animals to human is the most likely explanation," Yuen Kwok-yung, chairman of infectious diseases at the University of Hong Kong's department of microbiology says.
14 Feb 2013RSC Publishing Blogs - HOT review: Peptide synthesis dumps demanding cysteine for a more rewarding relationship with unnatural amino acidsThis review article from Xuechen Li et al. at The University of Hong Kong, China, reviews the synthesis of unnatural amino acids that...
13 Feb 2013Al Jazeera English - North Korea: Altering the balance of power?North Korea has carried out its third nuclear test in defiance of international criticism.
12 Feb 2013BBC Chinese(trad) - 香港觀察：梁振英指媒體誹謗的背後從法律層面看，香港大學法律學院院長陳文敏就指出，這篇文章涉及政府管治問題，據英國案例，梁振英無權以個人身份作民事誹謗訴訟，「並非說梁振英完全不能以個人身份告人誹謗，但做到特首這高位，除非評論是涉及他的私生活，否則以他的個人身份興訟空間非常有限」。
09 Feb 2013The Straits Times - 'Sunshine law' seeks to expose graftthe substance of combating corruption," says Professor Peter Cheung of Hong Kong University, who studies south China. But he and others also...
07 Feb 2013The National - English the lingua franca in ChinaMany senior business roles in China now requuire people to speak English, says Angel Lin, an associate professor in the faculty of education at the University of Hong Kong.
07 Feb 2013Times Higher Education - What are you reading?John Holford, Robert Peers professor of adult education and director of the Centre for Research in Higher, Adult and Vocational Education, University of Nottingham, is reading Peter Cunich's A History of the University of Hong Kong: Volume 1, 1911-1945 (H
04 Feb 2013Saudi Gazette - HKU set to host Asia’s first IB World Student ConferenceThe first IB World Student Conference in Asia will be held at University of Hong Kong on Aug. 11-16, 2013.
04 Feb 2013Intheblack - How can business skill up for the Asian Century?The rise of Asia is real and sustainable, emphasises Professor Michael Enright. In 2000, he says, Asia accounted for about 20 per cent of global GDP but by 2030 that figure is expected to increase to about 35 per cent.
31 Jan 2013Sina Taiwan - H5N1病毒研究重啟：科學家為何製造致命病毒 如今，作為香港大學微生物學系教授以及新發傳染性疾病國家重點實驗室的主任，這個臉色黝黑的中年人已經在實驗室中鑑定出了20多種H5N1病毒的變異類型，排出250多個該病毒的基因序列。“
31 Jan 2013The Straits Times - HK ponders weak population growth - with an eye on S'poreSingapore, we need parallel policies." Added demographer Paul Yip of Hong Kong University: "We need at least a conversation on whether we can...
30 Jan 2013Asian Correspondent - Embattled HK leader survives attack by old allypredecessor Donald Tsang after the same time in office, according to the University of Hong Kong s Public Opinion Programme. Patrick Boehler
28 Jan 2013The Medical News - BPA-containing resin not needed to bond retainersIn this study, Alexander Tang (University of Hong Kong, China) and co-workers investigated the viability of bonding retainers without the use of liquid resin.
28 Jan 2013The Holmes Report - Davos Voices: Industry Leaders Assess PR Lessons From World Economic ForumThe Social Technology Context: "In China, social platforms like Weibo are creating an arms race between control and freedom," said Chan Yuenying, a professor at the University of Hong Kong.
28 Jan 2013Newswise - Scientists Discover Process that Turns Normal Liver Cells to Cancer CellsThe team, which also includes researchers under the direction of Professor Guan Xin-Yuan at The University of Hong Kong, is the first to provide direct evidence that the “editing” of this protein-making sequence promotes the development of cancer.
25 Jan 2013Sina Taiwan - 天貓可能取消“雙十一”：或為阿里上市考慮　“如果購物節過于頻繁，將慢慢失去吸引力。因為每天都有折扣，就等於沒有折扣。”去年針對中國內地連番掀起的電商促銷熱潮，香港大學社會學系主任呂大樂曾指出。
24 Jan 2013Science - Transmission Studies Resume for Avian FluIn January 2012, influenza virus researchers from around the world announced a voluntary pause of 60 days on any research involving highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 viruses leading to the generation of viruses that are more transmissible in mammals.
23 Jan 2013University World News - Better planning and data needed to raise HE quality“Education, especially higher education, is expanding in all three countries, possibly over-expanding. In South East Asia, the focus is on how to raise the quality of education,” said Mark Bray, a professor at Hong Kong University who organised the worksh
21 Jan 2013Modern Ghana - Mali in January 2013: We Need African Solutions for an African ProblemOn January 11, 2013, the French army suddenly invaded Mali, with the excuse that they were "invited" by the Malian Head of State, unelected President Dioncounda Traore, to come and help Mali fight Islamists and other Al-Qaida-linked jihadists in the north
21 Jan 2013Intl Business Time - Weibo Censors 'Delete 10 Million Messages a Day from Chinese Twitter'"Social media are increasingly where stories break, and where public opinion is formed," said David Bandurski, a researcher at the University of Hong Kong's China Media Project.
21 Jan 2013Sina Taiwan - 商學院生意經：一年營收四個億堪比上市公司香港大學經濟及工商管理學院副院長陸炎輝認為，從師資水准、論文發布、學術影響等多個方面評價，今天中國商院與世界一流商院的差距客觀存在。
21 Jan 2013中央日報網路報 - 大陸/港應科院研究論文於國際下載榜位居前席該論文由香港大學電機電子工程系副教授林彥民博士合著，總結了作為手機性能函數的天線設計參數，並簡介了設計過程。論文也調查了各種手機的內置天線，並討論不同類型的移動電話天線、饋入結構、有源天線、隔離和天線加載技術。
21 Jan 2013澳華網 - 港特首﹕若地產商囤積單位 絕不會坐視不理香港大學房地產及建設系講座教授鄒廣榮則認為﹐現時若想增加土地供應﹐政府可以向發展商提供誘因﹐加快將農地的用途改變﹐可能更快見效。
21 Jan 2013中国台湾网 - 香港人民币资金池或达动态平衡 对2011年以来香港人民币存款规模的波动，香港大学中国金融研究中心主任、北京大学金融学系主任宋敏认为，“现在香港人民币产品越来越多，原来只放在银行账户，现在会拿出来一部分买人民币产品，因为分流的缘故，人民币存款规模偶尔下降是很正常的。另外，人民币回流内地的渠道也部分打通。”
20 Jan 2013The Telegraph - Chinese microbloggers use the power of the internet to defy censorship and call for change Academics in the US and in Hong Kong crunch certain types of weibo posts to look at shifts under way in China. Professor Fu King-wa, from the University of Hong Kong, analyses the Weiboscope, published by the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the uni
20 Jan 2013Ciencias Médicas News - PLOS ONE: A Host Transcriptional Signature for Presymptomatic Detection of Infection in Humans Exposed to Influenza H1N1 or H3N2There is great potential for host-based gene expression analysis to impact the early diagnosis of infectious diseases. In particular, the influenza pandemic of 2009 highlighted the challenges and limitations of traditional pathogen-based testing for suspe
20 Jan 2013Yahoo!奇摩理財 - 穩中求進 中國經濟保八香港大學經濟系教授許成鋼更直指，「中國城鎮化是機遇，也可能是陷阱。」若農民土地仍無法自由流轉、若未搭配市民化、戶籍等改革，推動城鎮化，反而會激化社會矛盾。
19 Jan 2013Intl Business Times UK - Hong Kong: Heavy Air Pollution Threatens Peoples' Health And Local EconomyProfessor Anthony Hedley, an epidemiologist at the University of Hong Kong's school of public health, told the Financial Times that there is a direct link between Hong Kong’s air pollution and the high incidence of respiratory, lung and heart diseases.
19 Jan 2013Western News - Young leader making public health connectionsAt 40, Western alumnus Dr. Gabriel Leung heads of the School pf Public Health at the University of Hong Kong (UHK), where he has been a tenured professor since age 34.
18 Jan 2013Fox 19 - As Tibet burns, China makes arrests, seizes TVs"Tibet is getting into the global evening news because of self-immolations and so there's this anxiety to bring it under control," said Michael Davis, a law professor and Tibet expert at the University of Hong Kong.
18 Jan 2013Education-Guardian.co.uk - Scientific research: how Asia carved its nicheDavid Dudgeon: 'If you're interested in somewhere that is always changing, Hong Kong is the place to come'
18 Jan 2013BBC Chinese(trad) - 記者來鴻：香港急需填補的大「黑洞」由香港教育界名人王式英（William Waung，退休高等法院法官，香港大學法律系客座教授）等領銜的「檔案行動組」發起社區運動，爭取香港制定檔案法。
17 Jan 2013PLoS ONE - A Study of the Impact of Thirteen Celebrity Suicides on Subsequent Suicide Rates in South Korea from 2005 to 2009 In this study, we deploy interrupted time-series analysis using ARIMA transfer function models to investigate systematically the impact of thirteen celebrity suicides on subsequent suicide rates in South Korea.
17 Jan 2013PLoS One - An ERP Study of Good Production vis-à-vis Poor Perception of Tones in Cantonese: Implications for Top-Down Speech ProcessingThis study investigated a theoretically challenging dissociation between good production and poor perception of tones among neurologically unimpaired native speakers of Cantonese.
16 Jan 2013Phys.Org - Are consumers with fewer friends more likely to take financial risks?Feeling socially isolated causes consumers to pursue riskier but potentially more profitable financial opportunities, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.
16 Jan 2013British Medical Journal - Beijing pollution is becoming a “public health catastrophe,” expert says“The levels we have seen in the last few days are approaching those of the catastrophic London fog in 1952, which killed 4500 people in five days,” said Anthony Hedley, honorary professor at the University of Hong Kong’s School of Public Health.
15 Jan 2013Wirtschafts Psychologie.. - Lernen von Thomas Ng: Ältere sind motiviert und veränderungsbereitThomas Ng und Daniel Feldman haben fünf von sechs Vorurteilen über ältere Arbeitnehmer entkräftet. Sie fassten bisherige Studien zum Alter zusammen. Damit konnten sie zeigen, dass Ältere entgegen verbreiteter Klischees motiviert, veränderungsbereit, berei
14 Jan 2013Foodconsumer.org - No cure for Parkinson's disease, but nutrition supplements helpful...delay the progression of Parkinson's disease. J. Chao from The University of Hong Kong in Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR, China and colleagues say in...
13 Jan 2013Daily Times - Need for research on local languages stressedDr Angel Lin of the University of Hong Kong presented a paper titled Asia as Method: Postcolonial epistemologies...
12 Jan 2013Cosmetics Design Europe - Resveratrol shown to delay aging as scientists enhance understandingto delay aging as scientists enhance understanding Researchers at the University of Hong Kong have published further information on the impact...
11 Jan 2013Timesonline.com - Censorship row shows China's tight grip on mediasaid Qian Gang, now director of the China Media Project at the University of Hong Kong. "The leaders definitely do not hope in this era to...
11 Jan 2013Time.com - Crusading Chinese Journalists End Their Strike. But Don’t Expect Media Freedoms to Followsection. As David Bandurski, with the China Media Project at the University of Hong Kong, reported, the Beijing News piece described the warming...
11 Jan 2013Electric Light & Power - Smart grid unlocks renewable power; New technology jointly developed in Hong Kong set to unleash potential of sustainable energyelectronics at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Hong Kong. While some European countries have set a...
11 Jan 2013Yahoo!ニュース Japan - 【香港】香港大と英大学、再生エネ発電の安定化技術今回の研究には、香港大の許樹源（ロン・ホイ）教授、李志群博士、呉復立（フェリックス・ウー）教授、陳秀聡博士、インペリアル・カレッジのバラルコ・チャウドゥリ博士らが加わった。
10 Jan 2013CNN - Censorship protest a test for ChinaYuen-Ying Chan, Journalism and Media Studies Centre director and professor, talks to CNN about press censorship in China.
10 Jan 2013Fox 28 - China newspaper publishes after deal ends standoffEventually, a crackdown might extend to the journalists themselves, with authorities meting out punishment once the incident blows over, said Qian Gang, director of the China Media Project at the University of Hong Kong.
09 Jan 2013Capital.gr - Hong Kong's Leader Losing Popularity ContestHong Kong Chief Executive C.Y. Leung is facing rising criticism over his leadership. Hong Kong University Professor John Burns tells us what Mr. Leung needs to do to raise his sinking popularity rate.
08 Jan 2013ABCNews.com - Management, Reporters Defuse China Censorship Spat"If that's the case, we've got a small victory for the media," said David Bandurksi, an expert on Chinese media at Hong Kong University.
08 Jan 2013NewsRx - Research Reports from University of Hong Kong Provide New Insights into Human Reproduction The reviewed studies laid a solid basis for future research on genetics of age at menarche. However, as yet specific genes for this trait have not been identified consistently in all ethnicities and types of studies," wrote V. Dvornyk and colleagues, Uni
08 Jan 2013The Economist - The case for the prosecutionDragon Yongjun Tang of the University of Hong Kong and Sarah Qian Wang of the University of Warwick, looks at the effects of credit-default swaps (CDSs) on the companies these instruments were written on.
07 Jan 2013GoArticles.com - Seafood Can Cure Sensitive TeethChun Hung Chu, from the University of Hong Kong, looking for a substance that can restore the enamel and dentin at the same time.
06 Jan 2013University World News - A focus on skills increasingly links higher education with employmentGerard Postiglione, a professor of education at Hong Kong University and a contributor to the ADB report, notes that higher...
05 Jan 2013Digital Trends - Hong Kong to receive 150 electric taxis from Nissanthe director of the International Research Centre for Electric Vehicles at the University of Hong Kong, K.T. Chau, said, “Unless the government has a law or rule that every car park has charging ports so we can recharge our vehicles at night, it will be v
04 Jan 2013DrBicuspid.com - Natural adhesive may help remineralize teethaccording to the study authors, from Anhui Medical University and the University of Hong Kong. While some sugar-free gums and special toothpastes...
04 Jan 2013HiNet - 港大預測：香港今年GDP增4.3% 樓價2015年或大跌香港大學昨 (3) 日發表香港最新經濟預測，料經濟增長顯著，首季經濟增長約 2.9% ，全年經濟增長估計最多 4.3%...
01 Jan 2013CounterPunch - Burma’s Civil WarsRenaud Egreteau is a researcher at the University of Hong Kong...
28 Dec 2012Before It's News - China To Crack Down On Internet Freedom Following Embarrassing Scandalswhether it goes beyond that, asked David Bandurski, a researcher at Hong Kong University s China Media Project, speaking to the Journal. Though...
28 Dec 2012NewsRx - Research from University of Hong Kong Yields New Findings on Stem CellsResearch from University of Hong Kong Yields New Findings on Stem Cells 2013 JAN 2 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Biotech...
27 Dec 2012The Visitor - Pete holds China in his hand!Pete hit another high when he spent 24 hours in a tower at Hong Kong University, similar to a project he completed from the top of Lancaster...
27 Dec 2012Therapeutics Daily - Study Results from University of Hong Kong Provide New Insights into Mass SpectrometryStudy Results from University of Hong Kong Provide New Insights into Mass Spectrometry By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Life Science Weekly...
24 Dec 2012Nature.com - Yangtze finless porpoises in perilstate of the river ecosystem, says David Dudgeon, an ecologist at the University of Hong Kong in China, who was not involved in the survey. Overfishing...
23 Dec 2012The Straits Times - Guangdong's new growth triangleAs economist Tao Zhigang of Hong Kong University, who writes about the competitiveness of China's manufacturing...
23 Dec 2012Intl Business Time UK - Why China's Explosive Economic Growth Could Trigger a Global Food Crisisindependent in this matter, feels Harod Corke, a professor at the University of Hong Kong's School of Biological Sciences. "Because China is...
20 Dec 2012Reuters Health & Fitness - Scientists in Hong Kong map initial anti-ageing formulaIn that research, the team at the University of Hong Kong found that a mutation in the Lamin A protein, which lines...
19 Dec 2012The Daily Galaxy - Organic Building Blocks Found Everywhere in the UniverseThe compounds are so complex that their chemical structures resemble the makeup of coal and petroleum, the study's lead author, Sun Kwok of the University of Hong Kong, said.
18 Dec 2012BBC Chinese(trad) - 中聯辦官員稱中央對港有10項權力郝鐵川在文章中引述香港大學法律學院院長陳文敏和多名港大學者合著的法律教科書《香港法概論》，指中央對香港的權力有10項，包括解釋《基本法》、任命特首和主要官員、宣佈緊急狀態等。
14 Dec 2012The Lancet - A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990—2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010...Hospital, Truro, UKee Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Correspondence to: Dr Stephen...
14 Dec 2012The Straits Times - HK wants Beijing input on PR issue...the 2001 ruling," said constitutional law expert Eric Cheung of the Hong Kong University. "From experience, when the Hong Kong government seeks...
14 Dec 2012The Daily Princetonian - On China trip, Tilghman to talk about future of cities...professors. Professors from other international institutions such as Harvard, the University of Hong Kong, Fudan University in Shanghai and King s College...
13 Dec 2012Reuters.co.uk - Hong Kong lawyers warn against Chinese role in courts...the city. Simon Young, a barrister and professor of law at the University of Hong Kong, said the Beijing-backed Hong Kong government's decision ...
13 Dec 2012The Wall Street Journal - How China Views Japan's Elections (Japanese)...Sunday. The WSJ's Juro Osawa talks with Sebastien Fung of the University of Hong Kong about how the new leadership could help patch up relations between...
13 Dec 2012RMIT University - Photo guru comes to town...Photography at Photographic Studies College, and an Honorary Lecturer at Hong Kong University. Much of his award-winning documentary work has...
12 Dec 2012Business Line - Why I came all the way to intern in India...school, the Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JMSC) of The University of Hong Kong, encourages students like me to intern overseas, and currently...
11 Dec 2012CBS 6 WTVR - HSBC to pay record $2 billion fine, avoid prosecution for laundering money for Iran, Mexican cartels...on risk-taking, says Gary Biddle, professor of accounting at the University of Hong Kong. But HSBC has about a $123 billion market cap today...
11 Dec 2012News Odrome - Putting a price on emotions...on the culture you live in. A team led by Hi Lau at the University of Hong Kong used this "willingness to pay" approach to find out how students...
10 Dec 2012Scoop - Freshwater Sciences Society – Key closing messagesworld-renowned expert in freshwater conservation, Professor David Dudgeon from the University of Hong Kong. He presented a grim picture for the future...
10 Dec 2012The Guardian - Two Tibetans detained in China for 'inciting' self-immolationsMichael Davis, a professor at the University of Hong Kong, said the Chinese government might be using the case to shift responsibility for the self-immolations from itself to outside groups.
08 Dec 2012Times online - Prof. Malik Peiris: The humility of a Fellow of the Royal SocietyProfessor Malik Peiris is the Tam Wah-Ching Professor of Medical Science, Scientific Director of Hong Kong University’s Pasteur Research Centre, and Chair Professor of Virology, Hong Kong University.
08 Dec 2012Sina Taiwan - 前海第二批“先行先試”將出 港方博更多利益香港大學教授宋敏認為，從國家戰略來說，前海金融創新可以做的探索是兩個方面，一是准入，二是資本項目開放。
06 Dec 2012Roodo Blog - 潘迪華暢談會@香港大學李兆基演講中心大會堂這一夜來到香港大學百週年校園李兆基演講中心大會堂﹐為的是要赴“潘迪華暢談會”﹐而最近她也剛推出她的“潘迪華我的心”DVD+CD﹐這套是她自2007至2011年榮休演唱會的紀錄
06 Dec 2012BBC Chinese - 英國人茶的嗜好和鴉片戰爭香港大學教授約翰·卡羅爾（John Carroll）說：「英國人意識到印度東岸生產的大量鴉片讓鴉片走私到中國變得非常有賺頭，而且廣東沿海這一地理位置使走私更容易。他們會把貨物分到小些的貨船，再運到碼頭。之後總是會有人幫他們把鴉片帶到中國境內。」
05 Dec 20127thSpace - DH's response to media enquiriesIn response to media enquiries on the report of the Investigation Panel on the Dental Unit Incident of the University of Hong Kong, the spokesperson for the Department of Health responded today ...
04 Dec 2012India Education Diary - Affordable Housing Research Network Launching Symposium By HKU Faculty of ArchitectureAffordable Housing Research Network Launching Symposium By HKU Faculty of Architecture Report by India Education bureau, Hong Kong: The Affordable...
04 Dec 2012India Education Diary - Bamboo Shed Cantonese Opera and School Education: From Cultural Space to Learning SpaceEducation and Research (CACLER) of the Faculty of Education of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has launched the HKU Cantonese Opera Education...
03 Dec 2012Science Media Centre - Briefing: ‘Beyond the limits’ Freshwater scientists speak out...•Prof David Dudgeon - Chair Professor of Ecology and Biodiversity and Associate Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Science, University of Hong Kong
02 Dec 2012University World News - Universities must better prepare young people for labour market“In the Asian region higher education is expanding rapidly and when you expand so rapidly misalignment between higher education and the labour market grows,” said Gerard Postiglione a professor of education at the University of Hong Kong
02 Dec 2012Alaska Dispatch - World AIDS day: Hope rises in Asia in fight against HIV/AIDStreatment and prevention, says Dr. Zhiwei Chen, founding director of Hong Kong University s AIDS Institute. The death rate in China has decreased...
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