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People in Hong Kong have recorded the lowest scores in a region-wide Happiness Index in all areas concerning quality of life, according to a CityU survey of Happiness Index for Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore.
The Academy of Korean Studies has awarded Professor Philip J Ivanhoe and Dr Kim Sung-moon of the Department of Public and Social Administration a US$1.3 million grant for an unprecedented study on Korean philosophy.
The inauguration ceremony for the Hong Kong Advanced Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Studies, the first transdisciplinary research institute in Hong Kong, was held on 12 January at CityU.
World civilisation scholars exchanged views on how to develop a world civilisation course at CityU.
Professor Gregory Lee, Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, kicked off a new series of talks with a lecture on cross-disciplinary approaches to tertiary education.
The first lecture of the Humanities Lecture Series featured Professor Zhang Longxi, Chair Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation, addressing the perceived gap between science and the humanities and the East and West, on 15 September.
CityU hosted a roundtable forum to promote discussion on the issue of poverty in Hong Kong on 23 February. Speakers included local and overseas academics, Government officials and representatives from social services and policy research organisations.
About 40 international and local experts in bioethics are participating in a three-day workshop co-organised by CityU from 6-8 December to explore critical issues relating to human nature amid the rapid development of biotechnologies in the 21st century.
Linguistics experts from around the world assemble at the conference organised by CityU’s Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies from 5-7 December, exploring the significance of a language transforming into a world language.
CityU hosted a public forum entitled “Goods and Services Tax (GST): Visions or Missions Impossible?” to promote discussion on the issue of introducing GST in Hong Kong.