30 Monday Nov 2015
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By Jonathan Chan and Kate Lin
The main source of income for Hong Kong’s retail business comes from mainland tourists, but with their numbers dwindling, retailers that expanded to cater their shopping needs have taken a huge blow.
30 Monday Nov 2015
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By Choi Ho Yee (Elise), Yang Shutong (Emma) and Tsoi Ki Lik (Alex) Back in 2012, Leung Chun-ying took office as chief …
30 Monday Nov 2015
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Reported by Vegas Tang, Ian Mak
According to the latest statistics from PartnerNet, a website developed by the Hong Kong Tourism Board, total Chinese visitors who stayed overnight has been dropped from 14,355,800 to 13,562,600, 5.5% in other words. This is far more than the decrease of the total number of overnight visitors, who dropped from to 19,706,500, 4.8%. The proportion of mainland visitors to overall attendance also dropped to 40 percent, from 50 percent. Comparing the first nine months of number of visitors came from different region, most regions had recorded a decrease, and the drop of visitors from Mainland is the most significant among the regions.
30 Monday Nov 2015
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By Arisa Wing Yiu Lai, Candice Ka Wai Tang & Tanya McGovern
The Nobel Prize is synonymous with influential leaders, thinkers and innovators. Since 1901, the annual international awards receives thousands of nominations for the contributions of individuals and organisations to academia, culture and the sciences.
29 Sunday Nov 2015
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By Catherine Xu, Pamela Lin & Fred LAI
Poor population reaches the lowest in six years while the city is still confronted with the problem of ageing population and more alleviation measures are in need.
29 Sunday Nov 2015
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By Viola Zhou
More than 300 million foetuses were aborted in China since the one-child policy was implemented 35 years ago. Over 10 million abortion operations were performed in the most years in 1980s, when the family-planning policy was strictly enforced. Continue reading
27 Friday Nov 2015
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When “Data” and “News” get married, they have a lot of babies who have different characteristics, which means “Data Journalism Family” inevitably involves many fields about “Data Science“.
Yesterday I came to a meetup held in WanChai about data visualisation (one of the family’s child in data journalism). The speaker is Mart, and here is his Bio from Trello: Continue reading
27 Friday Nov 2015
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Hi all. There will be a visit to CityU Apps Lab organised by Open Innovation Lab@CUHK. Please see if you have interest. Data journalism could be presented in various forms like webpages, apps and etc. News apps are also a trend in data journalism.
“Those two are tech communities. CAL finds a lot of practical applications with impact to society. They even got some public startup funding from HK gov last year. I think it is a good opportunity for people with a inter-disciplinary interest to mingle with each other,” says Hu Pili, Director of Initium Lab.
Here is the visit info:
https://trello.com/c/wD1iucin/198-tour-visiting-cityu-apps-lab
Enjoy data news stories produced by our students and members in the Gallery!
20 Friday Nov 2015
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The D&N Society was established in 2015 based in Hong Kong: https://dnnsociety.org/about/
The Data & News Society 