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The Selection Committee of the University of Toronto's Alexander Lectures chose Zhang Longxi, Director of CityU's Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies, to deliver the Lectures under the theme "Textual Encounters/Cultural Encounters".
Over 300 students, alumni and professors participated in CityU's Joint EMB Annual and MSc (Banking / Finance / Financial Engineering) Spring Dinner on 23 February with the famous banker Mr Peter Wong Tung-shun.
Lively dialectics about "Corruption, Good Governance and the Rule of Law" were manifested on 18 February in the School of Law Conference Room at City University of Hong Kong.
CityU's advanced know-how and technologies are making an impact on the socio-economic development on Hong Kong and the region. Two CityU subsidiary companies, CityU Enterprises Ltd and CityU Professional Services Ltd reported robust growth in 2004 at their joint annual dinner, on 2 February.
Ms Joan Ho Pui-yee and Mr Peter Ha Cao-thang, PhD students in the Department of Physics and Materials Science, have won the "Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong Awards".
A Seminar entitled "Fifteen Years after Public Sector Reform: Hong Kong's Public Management in Perspective" was held at CityU, 5 February, provoking thoughtful discussion on public sector reforms among the speakers and the audience of 160 participants from the Civil Service, private sector, and academia.
On 3 February, Ms Margaret Ng, a Member of Hong Kong's Legislative Council, lectured on "Just Law: Do Laws in Hong Kong Necessarily Promote Justice?", as part of the SLW's Eminent Speakers Lecture Series.
Over 120 people from the community gathered at CityU, 30-31 January 2005, for a public forum organized by the Southeast Asia Research Centre, to learn about Aceh's social issues arising from the tsunami in December.
In his 2001-2002 budget speech, the Financial Secretary said it is imperative that Hong Kong "continue to enhance our corporate governance" as an international financial centre, even though this standard is among the highest in the region.
Hong Kong has never been short of indices, particularly in the economic and business arena. We have, for example, the Hang Seng Index to gauge the volatility of its stock market. CityU's Department of Management Sciences, in co-operation with Centaline Property Agency Ltd, produces the Centaline Index to record the ups and downs of the local residential property market.