Research Stories
VP(R)'s Picks: Influenza B Vaccine and the Limits of ‘Herd’ Protection
Living in the same household as someone vaccinated against influenza B is weak protection against the virus. Best to get yourself vaccinated, too, finds an HKU-led study published in Nature Communications.
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Leading the World in FinTech
The way we buy, sell and invest is undergoing enormous change thanks to financial technology. HKU scholars have been quick off the mark to investigate and explain this phenomenon – from identifying the legal and regulatory implications to developing applications for industry; from looking at how migrant workers use FinTech to the darker side of the big data collection that underpins the technology
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China's AI Approach to Information Control
Censorship is an old-school idea compared to the sophisticated data-driven approach China is taking to control the spread of information in the country
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Taking on Foxconn
Professor Pun Ngai has produced critical research on the problematic working conditions in Foxconn factories and the state of China’s working class
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Sex with Chinese Characteristics
Sexual culture and practices help sustain the political economy in China, even when the state is cracking down on them, argues Professor Petula Ho Sik-ying
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