High Speed Train Named X-2000 Between Hong-kong and Guangzhou

Cost-Benefit Analysis of High-Speed Rail Link between Hong Kong and Mainland China

The Legislative Council in Hong Kong has approved a funding of USD$8.60 billion to build the high-speed rail (HSR) line linking mainland China. HSR is a break-through technology that allows trains running at a speed over 250 km per hour. The most controversial part of the HSR investment is whether its cost could be compensated by the social benefits. In this study, a cost-benefit analysis of th...

Cohort profile: The Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study, a Guangzhou-Hong Kong-Birmingham collaboration.

Heritage Conservationin Hong kong (Policy and Planning Context Review)

Since the enactment of the Antiquities and Monuments Ordinance in 1971 and the establishment of Antiquities and Monuments Office in 1976, the Hong Kong Government has set up several institutions with particular ordinances and schemes for Heritage Conservation. With the set-up of government initiatives, yet the protection of physical and cultural heritage is still limited due to the ambiguity of...

Kawasaki disease in Hong Kong, 1994 to 2000.

OBJECTIVE To describe the epidemiology, clinical characteristics, and management of Kawasaki disease in children in Hong Kong. DESIGN Retrospective survey of medical records from July 1994 to June 1997, and prospective data collection from July 1997 to June 2000. SETTING Hospitals with a paediatric unit in Hong Kong. PATIENTS Patients diagnosed with Kawasaki disease between July 1994 and ...

Public health interventions to control the spread of a directly transmitted human pathogen within and between Hong Kong and Guangzhou.

The ability to detect and differentiate between fast and slow spatial spread of infectious disease depends on the density of the surveillance network. 2. The results of this study suggest that more concentrated surveillance networks are required in Guangzhou compared with other regions, such as Thailand and Europe, as long-distance travel is less frequent.