COVID-19: Tracking the Pandemic

POOR VENTILATION HELPS THE VIRUS SPREADHKU’s Department of Mechanical Engineering has shown that COVID-19 can be transmitted several metres by air when there is poor ventilation – a timely warning as winter approaches and people spend more time indoors. The...

Airborne Solution

Governments need an incentive to take the hard decisions necessary to address climate change, but many, particularly in the developing world, tend to put off taking decisive action because the costs of climate mitigation may exceed the payoffs and take decades to be...

The Paradox of Information Control in China

The COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak that started in Wuhan this past winter triggered deep questions about the flow of information in Mainland China, as officials played down the threat until it became too big to ignore. To those who experienced SARS in 2003, the...

A Sliver of Hope for Hong Kong

In the 1980s, when Hong Kong’s future was being negotiated by China and Britain, Deng Xiaoping coined the phrase ‘one country, two systems’ to describe the solution of allowing Hong Kong’s legal and economic system to remain unchanged for 50 years. This governing...

Catholics in China: A Survival Story

The history books tell us the facts about the arrival and activities of Western missionaries in China. But what did this mean to the ordinary peasants and missionaries at the time? For Dr Li Ji of the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the...