Tag: Hong Kong

Is Your Body Odor Keeping Friends at Arms Length? 4 Methods of Prevention and 2 Treatment Options

Although body odor is not a disease, unpleasant smells emitted from the armpits can be embarrassing and offensive. Here, a Taiwanese specialist provides prevention and treatment methods for readers of The Epoch Times. The human body has two types of sweat glands: small sweat glands and large sweat glands (also known as apocrine glands). Small…


Hong Kong Distributes 60,000 New National Security Picture Books to Sell National Security to Students

As the third anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-imposed Hong Kong National Security Law approaches, the authorities have been busy launching different measures and plans targeting students. The Hong Kong government recently distributed 60,000 children’s picture books to primary schools all over Hong Kong. The book, called National Security: Foundation Of Stability And Prosperity,…


Hong Kong’s Major Journalist Group Swimming Against the Tide Under Financial Difficulties and Political Challenges

Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA), the city’s major journalist union with a long-standing history of enhancing press freedom and professional standards, moves on with its work with a newly elected executive committee, amid shrinking finance, stifling press freedom in the territory, and mounting political challenges. The group, which has been encountering the pressure of disbandment…


Hong Kong Does Not Care About the United Nations

Commentary This year marked the 34th anniversary of the June 4th incident, a 1989 student-led demonstration in China that resulted in bloody suppression and massacre. Since then, the annual June 4th candlelight vigil has been part of Hong Kong’s history until 2020, when the national security law banned such national security-threatening activities. However, with the…


Using Mobile Phones Increases Hypertension Risk: Study

Whether it’s for work or to stay in touch with friends and family, many people spend hours on their mobile phones every day. However, people rarely consider whether this habit could hurt their health. A study has found that using mobile phones for 30 minutes or more per week increases the risk of hypertension. A…


After China Woke Up

Commentary “Let China sleep. For when she wakes up, she will shake the world,” a quote generally attributed to Napoleon two centuries ago became relevant again after the turn of the millennium when the momentum of China’s reforms was increasingly felt around the world. The word “appetite” is used in “China Shakes the World” by…


Hong Kong Develops AI Model to Predict Alzheimer’s Risk With Over 70% Accuracy

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) research team has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that can use genetic information to predict the risk of Alzheimer’s disease before symptoms appear. At present, the clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease is mainly based on doctor’s judgment, cognitive ability scale test and brain scan, but…


State Department Says No Decision Yet on Invitation of Hong Kong to APEC

On June 13, the State Department amended its comment regarding the invitation of Hong Kong’s leader, John Lee Ka Chiu, to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in 2023, saying its invitation to APEC was an error. This comes after lawmakers urged to rescind the invitation as Lee was sanctioned in 2020 by the United…


Analysts Worry CCP Using Hong Kong to Dodge Foreign Restrictions on Organ Transplant

Since Lo Chung-mau, Secretary for Health of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority, expressed his hope in December 2022 to integrate Hong Kong hospitals into the China Organ Transplant Response System (COTRS), the number of people canceling their organ donor registration skyrocketed in the same month. Commentators suspect that the Chinese Community Party is trying to…


Southampton Police Investigate After Mainland Exchange Students Assault Hongkongers at the 4th Anniversary Rally of Hong Kong Protests

Rallies were held in multiple cities in the United Kingdom to commemorate the 4th anniversary of The 6/12 protest during the Hong Kong anti-extradition protests in 2019. On Sunday, June 11, 2023, A British-Hongkonger group, Hongkongers in Southampton, UK, held a rally at the Bargate to commemorate the 4th anniversary of the 6/12 incident. About…