Student articles

1 April 2025

Bag Charms Speak Volumes: Student Stories of Connection

Backpacks, bags and totes are essential for every university student, but they can also be a canvas for one of the school year’s biggest fashion accessories – the bag charm.A walk through the HKU campus often reveals a sea of charms dangling from people’s bags. But whether they take the form of animal plushies, cartoon characters or coveted “Labubus” encased in sturdy plastic, every charm tells a story.
19 August 2024

‘A living museum’ — BJ Students visit historical Pokfulam Village and interview docents

In March 2024, a group of JMSC students attended a docent tour at the Pokfulam village and interviewed tour guides Mr Lee Sui Wah and Jenny Tsang, who shared their ten-year journey and experiences as a docent. To encourage continued efforts in conserving the Pokfulam village's heritage, Wah and Jenny featured Issac Lee's (BJ 2024) and Esther Lee's (BJ 2026) articles in the Caritas – Hong Kong Pokfulam Community Development Project newsletter.
6 March 2024

Financial Secretary Calls for Confidence Amid Over HK$100 Billion Deficit

The Hong Kong government faces over HK$100 billion in financial deficit for the second consecutive year. The financial budget released on February 28th indicates an expectation to return to surplus within four years. 
7 May 2018

Work by JMSC students featured in FCC photography exhibit

  By Tongtong Li Photographs of street views and political activists dominated the photographs displayed in the “Young Lenses” student photography exhibition held at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club from 2-11 May. The exhibition displayed photographs […]
23 November 2017

A film journey between the East and West: A dialogue with Oscar-nominated filmmaker Shuibo Wang

By Carmel Yang Soft-spoken and bespectacled, Shui-Bo Wang looks every bit like an artist. In Hong Kong for a seminar at the University of Hong Kong, curated by Oscar-winning filmmaker Ruby Yang as part of […]
6 October 2017

JMSC faculty share research about “fake news” and techniques on how to navigate the media

By Martin Choi The Journalism and Media Studies Centre held its first series of lunchtime talks this year titled “Journalism in the Age of ‘Fake News’” over the course of three weeks, at a time […]
3 August 2017

Retiring in the East: dean of social sciences faculty achieves 40 years with HKU

  By Tamsyn Burgmann John Burns watched nervously out his window on 30 June 1997 as British military ships and helicopters made a final inspection tour of the East Lamma Channel, contemplating the era about […]
20 March 2017

Illegal sale of antibiotics still common in Hong Kong

By Natasha Fernandes Pharmacies in Hong Kong are selling antibiotics over the counter without asking for a prescription from customers, an investigation by this health news site  has found, despite the government’s latest effort to combat the drug […]