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  "id": 8636255,
  "title": "University calls for government funds for shared sites in Northern Metropolis",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/20/university-calls-for-government-funds-for-shared-sites-in-northern",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-20T07:29:13.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post - Hong Kong",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post-hong-kong",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/3368146/university-calls-government-funds-shared-sites-northern-metropolis"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The president of Saint Francis University, Professor Stephen Cheung Yan-leung, has called for the Hong Kong government to contribute more towards the cost of facilities shared among institutions in the Northern Metropolis university towns. Cheung believes that while individual universities can finance their own campuses, the government should shoulder a larger share of the expense for shared infrastructure such as research and student entrepreneurship centres. He further urged the government to establish research funds that universities could jointly apply for, encouraging collaboration among campuses and between universities and technology companies. This comes in the wake of the government's announcement that institutions seeking sites in the planned university towns would receive favourable consideration if they did not require public loans to build their campuses.",
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      {
        "outlet": "South China Morning Post",
        "title": "University calls for government funds for shared sites in Northern Metropolis",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/20/university-calls-for-government-funds-for-shared-sites-in-northern-8641312",
        "published": "2026-09-20T07:29:13.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "RTHK English",
        "title": "Northern Metropolis will power up HK economy: CE",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/20/northern-metropolis-will-power-up-hk-economy-ce",
        "published": "2026-09-20T08:34:11.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}