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A HK$3 million donation from the Hong Kong Hua-Yan Buddhist Association will be used to set up an endowment fund for student scholarships at CityU.
In his address at the first opening ceremony for the MPA + EMBA programme offered by CityU and Tsinghua University on 24 August in Beijing, Professor Way Kuo, CityU President, encouraged students to address social responsibilities when doing business.
This year the Elder Academy at CityU celebrates its 10th Anniversary. The celebration ceremony was held on 22 August.
The 3rd IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications at CityU from 19 to 21 August brings together more than 300 engineering specialists from over 30 countries and areas.
CityU will confer honorary doctoral degrees on Professor Michael Kotlikoff and Dr Edward Leong Che-hung in recognition of their significant contributions to education and the well-being of society.
Gao Xingjian's City University of Hong Kong Lecture (Note: This is an excerpt from a lecture delivered on 31 January, 2001 at City University of Hong Kong by Mr Gao Xingjian, Nobel Prize Winner in Literature. The sub-headings were added by the editor.)
Professor Zhang Longxi of CityU responded to the SCMP article on Gao's visit to Hong Kong (2 February 2001) Nobel Prize winner GAO used to fewer restrictions in his adopted home of France (1 February 2001, SCMP)
Although his novel Soul Mountain is all about questioning -- of literature, Chinese history and even language -- Gao Xingjian, the first Chinese writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, says he has no desire to overturn anything. "There's no need to overturn the tradition. It is there and no one can deny it," said Gao at his public lecture on 31 January at CityU, where the celebrated author talked to a large and enthusiastic audience about his views on literature and writing.
CityU and Hewlett Packard (HP) Hong Kong Ltd have joined forces in an effort to teach the ins and outs of mobile-commerce (m-commerce) to industry leaders. The Division of Commerce and HP offered the first m-commerce certificate course in January.
Many Chinese readers have felt disappointed in the past that no Chinese writer has ever been awarded the Nobel Prize. Unexpectedly, at the beginning of the new millennium, the Nobel Prize in Literature travelled across languages and cultures from distant Sweden to arrive, for the first time, in the hands of a Chinese writer--Gao Xingjian.