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South China Morning Post
16-07-2025
- General
- South China Morning Post
DSE results not the only path to success for Hong Kong students
One exam does not make or break one's life. That is the lesson Hong Kong youngsters can take away after they were informed of their scores in the notoriously competitive exam for higher education yesterday. The door to a good future does not close because of failure to get into university. This is especially true as technology and innovation continue to break new ground outside traditional study and career paths. As in the past, there are bound to be more losers than winners. Only about 38.5 per cent of 42,795 Diploma of Secondary Education day school candidates, or 16,393 students, attained the minimum entrance requirements for the eight public universities, up from 38.4 per cent, or 15,629, last year. The competition for admission is likely to be slightly more intense this year. Understandably, attention was drawn to the record number of students with perfect scores, including an 'ultimate top scorer' from a school that is not traditionally considered elite. Wang Haibo of Hong Kong Chinese Women's Club College finished with 5**, the highest score, in four electives, three core subjects and the extended maths module, the first to accomplish the feat since 2018. Also, 15 top scorers from 14 schools achieved a perfect 5** across six subjects this year. Of those, 10 of them were 'super top scorers', as they also earned a 5** for the extended elective maths module. Their success stories are a source of inspiration for students and the wider society. Earlier this year, 37 Hong Kong students achieved top marks in the International Baccalaureate (IB) programme . Of the 2,600 students who opted for IB instead of DSE, about one-third attained near-perfect or full marks. It is good that some want to continue studying in local universities, saying they feel a sense of duty to serve the city. Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu said there were many options for youngsters and that every attempt would be an opportunity for success and learning. Secretary for Education Christine Choi Yuk-lin said students need not pursue a single route, referring to a variety of higher education options. There is more to life than just a university education. Learning from the experience, be it success or failure, will help youngsters prepare for more challenges to come.
South China Morning Post
16-06-2025
- Health
- South China Morning Post
Hong Kong can lead world in AI healthcare by tapping trove of patient data: expert
Hong Kong has the potential to develop the world's most sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) system for healthcare, thanks to the data of millions of residents stored in the city's public hospitals, according to a leading expert in the field from mainland China. Professor Wang Haibo, director of the Research Centre of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine under the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, told the Post that the health data system in the city's public sector was something he had not seen in the United States or Europe. 'Hong Kong has the best opportunity to develop the most sophisticated AI system for medicine in the world,' Wang said on the sidelines of the Asia Summit on Global Health last month. 'The system is the only single technical platform system that harbours generations of the Hong Kong people's population data and medical data,' he said, referring to the clinical management system used by the city's 43 public hospitals. The Hospital Authority started to develop the system in the 1990s, and as of last year, it contained at least 11 million patient records. Wang, who worked at the University of Hong Kong for about a decade and studied at Harvard University and the University of Maryland in the US, said he had not seen a healthcare data system similar to the Hong Kong one in the North American country or Europe.
South China Morning Post
27-05-2025
- Health
- South China Morning Post
Legal obstacles stymie mechanism on organ donation between Hong Kong, mainland China
Legal hurdles remain a reason why a proposed regular mechanism on organ donation between Hong Kong and mainland China has yet to materialise since discussions started in 2022, according to a top health official from the country. Wang Haibo, director of the China Organ Transplant Response System (COTRS), told the Post on the sidelines of the Hospital Authority Convention on Tuesday that it would take time to revise laws on the mainland to spur the establishment of the mechanism. 'There is a legal hurdle for that,' Wang said. 'We have the HIV regulation. We ban [the transfer of] organs across the border.' 'Organ, blood and tissue … cannot [be transferred] across the border.' COTRS is a national system which allocates organs for transplants throughout the country. Wang said that the specific law that stymied the development of the cross-border mechanism was related to controls to prevent the spread of HIV.
