Hong Kong bets on global police role with new academy to train 1,000 a year
Hong Kong police aim to train 1,000 officers per year and bolster the city’s ties with overseas law enforcement agencies through a new international academy, which opened on Wednesday. Speaking at the opening ceremony for the Hong Kong International Academy of Policing, Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu said the institution was an investment in collective security that would bolster the city’s…
Nobel-winning British virologist Sir Michael Houghton has established a programme to create the world's first hepatitis C vaccine while working at Baptist University in Hong Kong. Houghton, who shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for co-discovering the hepatitis C virus, moved to Hong Kong after the United States and Europe reduced their science spending.
He joined the university after more than four decades in North America, seeking funding and access to Chinese strains of the virus. Houghton plans to begin phase one trials in 2028 in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Beijing, with the goal of a worldwide vaccine by 2030. The vaccine would initially target high-risk groups such as healthcare workers, newborns, and individuals with multiple sexual partners, costing around HK$1,600 per dose.
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