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A comprehensive, trilingual phrasebook with CD, Guide Pratique de Conversation Français - Cantonais - Mandarin, was launched at CityU, 18 February. The book serves as a useful reference for visitors, business travellers and students from French-speaking countries, the mainland and Hong Kong. It covers a wide range of daily-life situations and is organized in three columns for quick and easy access.
With the theme of “Navigating Lifelong Learning”, the School of Continuing and Professional Education (SCOPE) of the City University of Hong Kong’s exhibition booth at the Education & Careers Expo 2005, from 19 to 22 February, depicts a compass, directional signs, and a lighthouse beckoning visitors navigate the route of a learner.
CityU has raised a grand total of HK$392,660 for UNICEF, from 6 January to 7 February, to provide education kits for tsunami-affected children. This is a record amount for a CityU-wide donation campaign to date.
In the warm afternoon of 15 February, more than 1,000 staff members took a break from their work and rejoiced at the Chinese New Year Party, held at University Circle and in Chan Tai Ho Multi-purpose Hall.
For their annual performance on 19 February, the City University Philharmonic Orchestra will debut in Hong Kong City Hall's Concert Hall.
CityU's Department of Applied Social Studies has initiated a project to help rebuild an orphanage in Aceh, the Indonesian city hardest hit by last December's tsunami.
Set up by CityU's School of Creative Media, "Small City Big Talk" features a special web radio programme on this day for members of the University community and the public to express love to their dear ones.
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.