Will Hong Kong’s Free Press Survive?
In the summer of 2019, Nabela Qoser, a broadcast reporter, became the face of Hong Kong’s adversarial press. The city was in deep political crisis. Anti-Beijing protests numbering in the hundreds of thousands of people had erupted over a government push to allow the extradition of suspected criminals to mainland China. Then, one evening during an unusually hot July, a mob of men dressed in white, bearing metal rods and bamboo poles, attacked a crowd in a train station that included people returning home from the protests. The police, claiming to be busy elsewhere, did not immediately arrest the assailants. At a news conference the next morning, the city watched as Qoser fired rapid questions at Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing leader.
Student Union Leaders at Chinese University of Hong Kong Resign Due to Pressure, Threats
The members of the newly elected student union cabinet of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), known as “Syzygia,” declared their resignation on the same day that they were sworn in due to mounting pressure from university authorities.
Last month, CUHK condemned the cabinet, Syzygia, for their “possibly unlawful remarks” to media and “political propaganda,” according to a statement.
On Mar. 1, Lam Yui-hei, president of Syzygia, and his cabinet members held a press conference in the campus, according to Radio Free Asia (RFA). Lam cited reasons for their collective resignation, including political pressure from CUHK management, who “repeatedly hinted” that Syzygia should withdraw from the election before Feb. 28, and that its members would likely be expelled from CUHK and face up to more than ten years of imprisonment on national security grounds.
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Hong Kong unveils next-gen drug for cancers associated with EpsteinâBarr virus
Hong Kong unveils next-gen drug for cancers associated with EpsteinâBarr virus 03 March 2021 | News HKBU has established a spin-off company named BP InnoMed Limited (BPI) to further develop this new anti-EBV drug and carry out clinical trials
Source: PR Newswire
A Hong Kong Baptist University-led (HKBU) research team has developed a novel drug which has the potential to become a next-generation treatment for cancers associated with Epstein–Barr virus (EBV).
The peptide-linked drug, which is responsive to the acidic environment found in tumours, is the first known agent to have successfully targeted two viral proteins that are simultaneously produced by EBV.