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Mr Anthony Wu Ting-yuk, Chairman of the Bauhinia Foundation Research Centre, attended the High Table Dinner of the Alumni Civility Hall and spoke on the topic “Is Hong Kong Still a Land of Opportunity?”.
Jazz Zhou Jia, a Year Two student from the School of Creative Media, won three titles in Japan for her animated commercial, at the Gatsby CM Award 2009.
The 2009 LIVAC Pan-Chinese New Word Rosters showed that new words in the major Chinese communities reflect the most significant global and local events of collective concern this year.
Mirroring the trend of previous years, the top three places on this year’s Annual Pan-Chinese Celebrity Rosters were taken by political figures. They are US President Barack Obama, China’s President Hu Jintao and Chen Shui-bian from Taipei in that order.
"It is easier to generate academic achievement if individual scholars are allowed to conduct research according to their interests and impulses,” said Professor Lin Yu-sheng on the theoretical foundations of academic freedom.
Chair Professor Sritawat Kitipornchai, Head of the Department of Building and Construction at CityU, was given a reception in honour of his election as Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.
Eighty-five happy students of the Elder Academy successfully completed their first semester courses and received certificates at a ceremony held on 16 December.
The academician conference “Engineering Science and Technology: Trends and Frontiers” brings together highly regarded scientists to discuss the latest innovations in engineering and the possible frontiers of technological advancement.
The School of Law held the Sixteenth Annual Goff Arbitration Lecture on 10 December, with Professor David D Caron discussing the revision of arbitration rules.
About 200 scholars and professionals from around the world gathered at the All China Economic International Conference on 14 December to exchange ideas on a variety of economic issues concerning the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation community.