Journal to review university paper citing Hong Kong map without Victoria Harbour

An international journal has said it is looking into concerns raised over a map featured in a paper by an Education University of Hong Kong (EdU) researcher, in which Victoria Harbour was omitted and the Kowloon Peninsula was merged with Hong Kong Island. A spokesman for the journal Humanities and Social Sciences Communications said on Wednesday that its “assessment is ongoing”, while EdUHK defended the map, saying it was neither a distortion nor an error but a cartographic characteristic based...