by | Nov 7, 2019
The origins of the book – Common Law in an Uncommon Courtroom: Judicial Interpreting in Hong Kong – go back 25 years to 1994, when Dr Eva Ng joined Hong Kong Judiciary as a Court Interpreter II. She left that job 14 months later, but the uniqueness of the situation...
by | Nov 7, 2019
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...
by | Nov 7, 2019
Hong Kong’s illegal wildlife trade is increasing in volume, underestimated in value and contributing significantly to the global extinction crisis. These are the conclusions of a recent study co-authored by Hong Kong Wildlife Trade Working Group (HKWTWG) and Ms Amanda...
by | Nov 7, 2019
Public health studies are valuable for understanding population profiles and spotting emerging trends. But in order to be useful, there needs to be quality data – and lots of it. That takes both money and laborious collection work. Fortunately, HKU’s School of Public...
by | Nov 5, 2019
When Dr Michael Manio of the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine’s Emergency Medicine Unit arrived in Hong Kong from the Philippines in 2010 to pursue PhD studies here, he was surprised to stumble across large crowds of Filipinas gathering in public places. “I thought...
