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Five of the region's most prominent citizens have been appointed to the Council of CityU, effective 1 January 2001. The appointments, for terms ranging from two to three years, were made by Chief Executive Mr Tung Chee-hwa.
CityU Professor Judy Tsui has been appointed to the Council of the Hong Kong Society of Accountants (HKSA) as a co-opted member, and will serve until mid-December this year.
Linguistics scholars from every corner of the world gathered at CityU between 1-3 February for the 15th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, and for the First International Conference on Modern Chinese Grammar for the New Millennium.
For years, the thin gauze of atmosphere surrounding the earth hampered astronomers from studying the most distant stars in our cosmos. But the Hubble Space Telescope, fixed in the clarity of space, has lifted that veil. It is our outpost to the universe. Mr H Y Wong, Director of the Industrial Business and Development Office (IBDO), likes to use the Hubble analogy to describe the importance of CityU joining the Shenzhen Virtual University Park (SZVUP) this past December..
A new addition to the list of publications from City University Press—Analysis of Public Policies of China 2001—was launched at CityU on 12 January.
Always fond of the homespun expression, Deng Xiaoping used to say that China's cautious approach to reform was like "crossing the river by feeling the stones under one's feet". Yet that same down-to-earth wisdom, says President H K Chang, also holds true in our knowledge-based society, where sudden and explosive changes in technology and the Internet leave us all at times struggling to feel our way through the rapids.