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01 Nov 2000
CityU's 15th Anniversary Commemorative Album, titled Towards a New Era of Excellence, has won the 2000 Premier Print Award, also known as the Benny Award, in the "School Yearbook" category. The Benny Award, organized by the Printing Industries of America, Inc, is the largest and most prestigious competition in the printing industry worldwide.
01 Oct 2000
CityU's Department of Electronic Engineering showcased its expertise in eight projects at the Hong Kong Electronics Fair 2000, held from 11-14 October.
01 Sep 2000
The presence of renowned scholars at a university is an indication of its standing in the world academic community and reflects its reputation for academic excellence. CityU is privileged to have no less than eight world academicians on campus, one of whom is our President, Professor H K Chang. Professor Chang was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) on 10 July. Linkage has put together short biographies of our distinguished colleagues.
01 Sep 2000
CityU's Annual Report 1998-99 has won two top honours at the New York Annual Report Contest: a Gold Award each in the financial data and non-profit making organization categories.
10 May 2000
Have a few things you'd like to say to Bill Clinton-- Call up the White House website and send him an email. Want to find out about the US war machine? Take an introductory course or a Pentagon tour on the Department of Defense homepage. Perhaps your interest lies on the other side of the Atlantic. The British Monarchy and the UK Cabinet Office are also on the Net.
01 Apr 2000
Researchers from the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics and the Faculty Laboratory Centre were awarded the largest single CERG ($1.5m) in the Humanities, Social Sciences & Business Studies panel to develop an example-based machine translation (EBMT) system for the specialized language of legislation and legal documents. Their timely investigation will help to address the growing demand for bilingual legal texts as Hong Kong converts to a bilingual legal system.
01 Apr 2000
Everyone expected Professor Leung Kwok's inaugural lecture to be interesting. But despite the title, "Justice for All: Psycho-logical Insights for Creating a Fair World", no one could have predicted how useful his insights might be in their daily life.