Spatial and temporal variations of mercury in sediments from Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong Jian-bo Shi , Carman Ip , Chole Tang , Gan Zhang , Rudolf Wu , Xiang-dong Li 1∗ Department of Civil & Structural Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong State Key Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Gua...

Heng Wu; Zhijun Yang; Doris W.T. AU; Baosheng Guo; Zihong Lin; Zhong Liu; Fangyuan Wei; Gang Li; Weimin Liao; Ling Qin; Leungkim Hung; +Lei Wei; +Ge Zhang + Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong SAR, China, Department of Biology and chemistry, City University of Ho...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the application of a translated version of an established self-administered questionnaire for carpal tunnel syndrome on Chinese patients in Hong Kong. DESIGN Evaluation of an instrument tool. SETTING Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong; Holistic Medical Centre, Aberdeen, Hong Kong. PARTICIPANTS Patients with carpal tunnel synd...

The decline in Avoidable Mortality (AM) and increase in life expectancy in Shanghai is impressive. Gusmano and colleagues suggested that Shanghai’s improved health system has contributed significantly to this decline in AM. However, when compared to other global cities, Shanghai’s life expectancy at birth is improving as London and New York City, but has yet to surpass that of Hong Kong, Tokyo,...

King Sum Luk, Christina Ip, Meng–Qi GONG, Sunny Hei WONG, William KK Wu, Mei DONG, Guang–Ping LI, Ka Pang Chan, Yi–Mei DU, Tong LIU, Martin CS Wong, David Shu Cheong Hui, Gary Tse, International Health Informatics Study (IHIS) Network 1 Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China 2 Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, Facu...

At the successful staging of 20th Century Chinese Art organized by Christie’s, held in Hong Kong in November 2005, an auction record was set for a work by deceased artist Pan Yuliang (潘玉良, 1895-1977).1 Previously estimated to be between HK$33.5 million (approximately US$384,600-448,700) in value before the sale, the partially nude self-portrait of Pan fetched an impressive HK$9.64 million inste...

Jie Pan, Ting Zhang, Haijing Zhang, Bing Zhang, Zhen Dong, and Ping Sheng Department of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China Institute for Advanced Study, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China (Received 20 January 2017; revised manuscript received 2 June 2017; published 12 Septemb...

BACKGROUND Hepatitis C virus (HCV) 6a accounts for 23.6% of all HCV infections of the general population and 58.5% of intravenous drug users in Hong Kong. However, the geographical origin of this highly predominant HCV subgenotype is largely unknown. This study explores a hypothesis for one possible transmission route of HCV 6a to Hong Kong. METHODS NS5A sequences derived from 26 HCV 6a sampl...

Author details Department of Laboratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangdong, China. Research Centre of Translational Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangdong, China. State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou...

This paper, based on the Brockman and Chung (2003) framework, tests the hypothesis that H-shares registered under Chinese law (with lower level of investor protection and legal enforcement) are associated with higher levels of opportunistic earnings management than local shares registered under Hong Kong law, which are traded on the same Hong Kong equity market. The results using a sample of 85...