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What experts say Hong Kong’s new medical school must do to succeed

AdvertisementHong Kong healthcare and hospitalsHong KongHealth & EnvironmentWhat experts say Hong Kong’s new medical school must do to succeedTaking advantage of HKUST’s technological strengths and integrating medicine with research as well as AI are crucial to mission, they say
Reading Time:3 minutesWhy you can trust SCMPElizabeth Cheung,Edith LinandLeopold ChenPublished: 8:45am, 19 Nov 2025The new medical school set to be run by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) should ride on the institution’s unique technological strengths and catch up on clinical research to become a leading institution, experts and lawmakers have said.
AdvertisementTheir comments followed the government’s announcement on Tuesday that HKUST had emerged as the top choice to operate the city’s third medical school, taking its place alongside the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and the University of Hong Kong (HKU).
After eight months of decision-making, the final call was said to be t..

‘Will pay the price’: China sanctions 20 US firms over $10 bn arms sale to Taiwan; freezes all assets

China on Friday announced sweeping countermeasures against 20 US defence-related companies and 10 senior executives, freezing their assets and banning business dealings in response to Washington’s approval of large-scale arms sales to Taiwan.The Chinese foreign ministry said the sanctions were imposed under China’s anti-foreign sanctions law and would take effect immediately. Pentagon Drops Bombshell: U.S. Losing Top Allies To China Over Stealth Fighter Jets?The move follows the US administration’s approval of a major arms package for Taiwan valued at over $10 billion, according to the US state department. Under the measures, all movable and immovable assets of the sanctioned companies located in China will be frozen, while Chinese organisations and individuals will be barred from conducting business or cooperation with them. Restrictions were also imposed on 10 senior executives, including Palmer Luckey, founder of Anduril Industries, limiting their assets and activities related to Ch..

Alibaba unleashes Qwen3 coding model for developers to push AI agent adoption

AdvertisementArtificial intelligenceTechTech TrendsAlibaba unleashes Qwen3 coding model for developers to push AI agent adoptionIn new benchmark tests, Alibaba’s Qwen3-Coder outperformed rival models from Moonshot AI and DeepSeek
Reading Time:2 minutesWhy you can trust SCMPWency Chenin ShanghaiPublished: 6:30pm, 23 Jul 2025Alibaba Group Holding is looking to ratchet up the high-performance development of artificial intelligence (AI) agents, with Wednesday’s release of a new open-source coder under its Qwen3 family of models.AdvertisementTouted as the company’s “most advanced agentic AI coding model to date”, the Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct – built on a so-called Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture – features a total of 480 billion parameters, 35 billion of which are active, and supports a 256,000-token context window, expandable to 1 million tokens through extrapolation methods.
In a blog entry on developer platform GitHub, the Qwen team of Alibaba Cloud – the AI and cloud computi..