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Formulaic AI-generated microdramas risk stifling human creativity and innovation, a Beijing professor has warned at a forum in Macau. Zhang Lanshan, a professor at the School of Digital Media and Design Arts at the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, said that while audiences loved such standardised content, it posed a risk to diversity and artistic endeavour. Experts, including from several Hong Kong institutions, also warned users of artificial intelligence about the cultural [...]

Operation Santa Claus (OSC), one of Hong Kong’s most enduring annual fundraising campaigns, has been launched, with organisers aiming to raise money for 13 local charities this year to “bring care and hope to every corner of the city”. During the launch ceremony on Tuesday, co-organisers RTHK and the South China Morning Post said they would continue the campaign’s decades-long mission of uniting Hong Kong’s communities to support those most in need. The 13 projects selected to receive funding [...]

Hong Kong’s de facto central bank plans to introduce legislative amendments in the first quarter of next year to lower the capital costs for banks lending to local tertiary institutions, in a bid to speed up the development of the university towns in the Northern Metropolis. Under the proposed changes to the Banking (Capital) Rules, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) will designate 11 post-secondary institutions and three park companies as “Domestic Public Sector Entities”, granting them [...]

A British Nobel-winning virologist has launched a programme to develop the world’s first hepatitis C vaccine after joining a university in Hong Kong, tapping the city’s research funding, access to Chinese strains of the virus and partnerships with mainland drug makers. Sir Michael Houghton, who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the co-discovery of the hepatitis C virus, said he joined Baptist University after more than four decades in North America, as the United States and [...]

The United Kingdom remains a “much valued business partner” to Hong Kong, the city’s leader has said, while calling on British companies, investors and universities to explore opportunities in the Northern Metropolis. Speaking at the annual summit of the British Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong on Tuesday, Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu also said the development of the university towns in the megaproject near the border with mainland China offered a timely opportunity for both sides to deepen [...]