The pearl report [2013]
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23:34 31. Little HK, big HK[videorecording] /TVB News Public Affairs production.
2013-08-05
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Hong Kong used to be one of the most competitive cities in Asia and remains an international financial center. But is Hong Kong losing its edge? Many believe others are catching up and might even surp...
25:40 32. Red flags unfurled[videorecording] /TVB News Public Affairs production.
2013-08-12
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A mainland rural village claims to be a model socialist village yet it has all the trappings of capitalism with multi-billion yuan assets. And its actually a sinister Stefford Wives illusion with Chin...
24:48 33. East Asia's triumvirate.[Legacies of war][videorecording] /TVB News Public Affairs production.
2013-08-19
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China, Japan and South Korea have never fully reconciled their warring past. This has lingering effects on their present ties. In the first of a three-part series, THE PEARL REPORT scrutinises how the...
34. East Asia's triumvirate. K-pop reigns[videorecording] /TVB News Public Affairs production.
2013-08-26
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South Koreas cultural tentacles began extending about a decade ago to ensnare global attention to its pop music and TV dramas. In the second of a 3-part series, The pearl report examines the reasons b...
23:45 35. East Asia's triumvirate. Chasing dreams[videorecording]/TVB News Public Affairs production.
2013-09-02
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China, Japan and South Korea face some similar social and economic challenges such as aging populations and youth unemployment. In the last of our three-part series, we explore the difficulties encoun...
23:34 36. The Shaw prize. Life science & medicine[videorecording]/TVB News Public Affairs production.
2013-09-09
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The Shaw Prize is in 3 categories: astronomy, life science& medicine and mathematical sciences. For the next three weeks. The Pearl Report will a series on this award. In the first of 3 episodes, we m...
37. The Shaw prize. Astronomy, mathematical sciences[videorecording] /TVB News Public Affairs production.
2013-09-16
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Professors Steven Balbus and John Hawley discovered that magnetised material in accretion discs in space is unstable and causes turbulence which transport angular momentum outward. They called this ph...
25:01 38. The Shaw prize[videorecording] : 10 years on /TVB News Public Affairs production.
2013-09-23
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This is the 10th year for the Shaw Prize which has awarded 54 laureates in the fields of astronomy, life science & medicine and mathematical sciences. A few have passed away but many of these scientis...
24:29 39. Orphan diseases[videorecording] : 10 years on /TVB News Public Affairs production.
2013-09-30
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A disease is considered rare if it strikes 1 in 2,000 people. Among such, often dubbed, orphan or neglected ailments are congenital bone disorders caused by genetic mutations, e.g. Osteogenesis Imperf...
24:29 40. HK's hidden slavery[videorecording] /TVB News Public Affairs production.
2013-10-07
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The United Nations estimate nearly 12 million people in Asia are forced into sex slavery and bonded labour, with no control over their lives. In HK, the government is just beginning to recognize what ...
