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Political figures have crowned the 9th Annual Pan-Chinese Celebrity Rosters for 2008, with Chen Shui-bian from Taiwan, US President-elect Barack Obama and President Hu Jintao occupying the top three places.
The Language Information Sciences Research Centre of CityU has released the 8th Annual Pan-Chinese Celebrity Rosters for 2007. This year's rosters mark a transition of power and leadership around the world.
The 13th International Conference on Cantonese and Yue Dialects will be held at CityU from 18 to 20 December, alongside the Exhibition on Pre-historic Rock Carvings in Hong Kong and the Region.
Nobel Laureate, Chair Professor-at-Large at City University of Hong Kong, Professor Jean-Marie Lehn, of Collège de France, delivered a series of lectures to Department of Biology and Chemistry staff and students on 29 October.
CityU and Hong Kong Ocean Park Conservation Foundation researchers have released 15 captive-bred horseshoe crabs into the wild. The animals will now be tracked and their progress monitored in a bid to save the endangered species.
Among the eight local higher education institutions in Hong Kong, CityU was ranked third in terms of the percentage of successful applications for funding from the 2008-09 General Research Fund.
About 150 marine environmental scientists, academics and students from Hong Kong and the mainland attended a symposium on climate change and marine pollution at CityU from 9-10 January.
CityU’s Language Information Sciences Research Centre has released its 2007 Pan-Chinese New Word Rosters and highlighted five new words which were found in Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Taipei last year.
The Language Information Sciences Research Centre at CityU conducted a statistical review of the words most commonly used or being marginalized over the past 10 years. The results will be released between 26 June and 29 June.
Over 250 scientists, government officials and consultants attend the 5th International Conference on Marine Pollution and Ecotoxicology at CityU from 4 June to 6 June.