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The Tin Ka Ping Education Fund launching ceremony was held at City University of Hong Kong on 25 March to acknowledge the generosity of Dr Tin Ka Ping, Chairman of the K P Tin Foundation.
CityU confers the first Research Excellence Awards to Professor (Chair) Zhang Longxi and Professor (Chair) Paul Chu Kim-ho to recognise their outstanding research achievements.
CityU presented scholarships to outstanding students on 13 March with funds donated by professional bodies, charitable trust funds, private firms and CityU Staff Giving Club at the Scholarship and Prize Presentation Ceremony 2007-2008.
The Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics is holding “Chinese Week 2008” from 11 March to 14 March with seminars, performances and game booths to promote Chinese language and literature.
How many times have you said this to yourself: "I have such a lot of desk work to deal with--how can I spare time to read?" Indeed, we are all busy workers, but as President H K Chang has so often pointed out, we must also take time to develop our minds?ot only in our areas of expertise, but in other disciplines as well.
Following the explosive development of IT, a technological revolution is taking place in the international linguistic scene-the use of technology to save the world's endangered languages. And this is probably why the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities in the US jointly sponsored the establishment of the Electronic Meta-structure for Endangered Language Data Project (EMELD) a few months ago.
A Website Management Programme for students in the Bachelor of Arts with Honours Degree in Language Information Science, offered by CityU's Department of Chinese,Translation and Linguistics, is proving a great success, with student participation now including a large number of students from all three years. The programme is run by Dr Jonathan Webster, Acting Head of CityU's Department of English and Communication.