Media

HKU weekly notice (from December 7 to December 13, 2013)

06 Dec 2013

 

“Study on the Future Development of Retirement Security in Hong Kong”
First public forum (New Territories)
Professor Nelson Chow of the University of Hong Kong and his team is now conducting a Study on the Future Development of Retirement Security in Hong Kong (the Study), which was commissioned by the Social Security and Retirement Protection Task Force of the Commission on Poverty in March 2013.  Collecting views and opinions from the society through Public Forums is one of the important tasks of the Study.  The details of the first public forum are as follows:

District of the public forum	Date/Time	Venue	Target Audience	Remarks
New Territories	7 Dec 2013 (Sat), 3:00 to 5:00pm	Tuen Mun Primary School, Siu Hong Court, Tuen Mun, N.T.	General Public	The venue provides 300 seats. The activity will be conducted in Cantonese.  Advance registration is not required.  Registration will be started at 2:30pm.  Seating is on a first-come-first-serve basis and subject to capacity.

For more information about the public consultation exercise of the Study, please visit http://retirement.socialwork.hku.hk.

Members of the media are cordially invited to cover the event.  For enquiries, please contact “Future Development of Retirement Security in Hong Kong” Study Team, Department of Social Work and Social Administration, HKU (Tel: 92606744 or 92607309 / Email: retirement@socwork.hku.hk).

A Multi-Stakeholder Seminar Series on Population Policy for Hong Kong
Aim: To provide a platform for discussion among multiple stakeholders of the consultation document on population policy for Hong Kong

Moderator:  Prof. Paul Yip (葉兆輝教授), Professor, Social Work and Social Administration, HKU

Speakers:
December 9 (Monday): Removing Barriers to Fertility: how far can we go?
Dr. Celia Chan (陳凱欣博士), Assistant Professor, Social Work and Social Administration, HKU
Dr. Susan Fan (范瑩孫醫生), Executive Director, Family Planning Association of Hong Kong

Registration required: http://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_regform.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=27581
Time:    12:45 to 14:00 
Venue:  Room 533, 5/F, The Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

For enquiries, please contact Mr Sam Lee at 3917-2097

HKU Faculty of Education to hold Graduation Ceremony 2013
The Faculty of Education of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) will hold its graduation ceremony on December 9, 2013 (Monday) at 10:30am in the Concert Hall, Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Tsimshatsui, Kowloon.

The Honourable Alan Leong Kah-kit, SC will be the guest of honour. Professor Roland Chin, HKU Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost, will preside over the Ceremony.

The Faculty of Education has a total of 449 higher degree graduands, 175 undergraduands and 391 graduands of Postgraduate Certificate in Advanced Educational Studies and Postgraduate Diploma in Education this year.  At the ceremony, one award, seven prizes and one scholarship will also be presented to outstanding students. 

For further enquiries, please contact Ms. Queenie Wong, Senior Manager (Development and Communications), Faculty of Education, HKU (Tel: 2219 4270 / mobile: 9220 5840 / fax: 2540 6360 / email: qlpwong@hku.hk).

HKU Graduate School to hold Award Presentation Ceremony
A total of 56 research postgraduate students of various disciplines will receive awards on December 9, 2013 (Monday) at the Award Presentation Ceremony of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) Graduate School. The recipients are selected based on the quality of their thesis and academic performance.

The award recipients include 6 students for the Li Ka Shing Prize, 10 students for the Awards for Outstanding Research Postgraduate Student, 40 students for the University Postgraduate Fellowships.

In addition, 48 awardees have received other prizes, such as Hong Kong PhD Fellowships, the Doris Zimmern HKU-Cambridge Hughes Hall Scholarships, RGC-Fulbright Hong Kong Dissertation Research Programme Fellowships and Three Minute Thesis Competition Awards are also invited to attend the ceremony.

For details of the awardees, please visit:http://www.cpao.hku.hk/media/Brochure_content_2013.doc

Members of the media are cordially invited to cover the ceremony, the details are:

Date:       December 9, 2013 (Monday)
Time:      4:30 p.m.
Venue:    Rayson Huang Theatre, HKU

Officiating Guests:

• HKU Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Vice-President (Research) and Dean of Graduate School Professor Paul Tam
• Professor Rosie T.T. Young, Chairman of the HKU Foundation
• Mr C.F. Man, HKU Council Member
• HKU Associate Dean and Director of Graduate Studies of Graduate School Professor Nirmala Rao
  For details of the event, please contact Ms Tracy Cheung of Graduate School, HKU (tel: 25480486;
  email:tracy-cheung@hku.hk  
  
   For media enquiries, please contact Ms Melanie Wan (Manager (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office (tel: 2859 2600 email: melwkwan@hku.hk)

Yip Shiu Tak’s Cantonese Opera Manuscripts (in Chinese and English) New Publication
Ever since Cantonese Opera was inscribed onto UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2009, it has gradually picked up a larger audience from diverse geographical and cultural backgrounds. Translating Cantonese opera into English provides reference for foreigners, which fosters the internationalization of Cantonese opera as well as attracts visitors and English-speaking locals for promoting cultural tourism in Hong Kong. Academically, the English translations serve as the reference materials for teaching the topics about Cantonese opera in tertiary institutions (including overseas institutions), which upgrades the academic standing of Cantonese opera.

Since 2006, the Centre for Advancement of Chinese Language Education and Research (CACLER) of the Faculty of Education, the University of Hong Kong (HKU), has been working together with partnering schools, under the HKU Cantonese Opera Education and Research Project, to integrate Cantonese opera into the secondary school curriculum and on related researches. Mr. Yip Shiu Tak is a Cantonese opera playwright in Hong Kong and his works are the assets of local Cantonese opera. In 2009, the Cantonese Opera Development Fund funded the research team led by Dr. Dorothy Ng of the Faculty to implement the Translation and Bilingual (Chinese and English) Publication Project of Yip Shiu Tak's Cantonese Opera Manuscripts. The publication contains Island of Farewell, Zhu Bian Returns to Court, Fifteen Strings of Cash, Farewell My Concubine, and Li The Later Ruler, with English translation by veteran translators. It also includes the research data and appreciation guidance of the five operas, which makes the publication a valuable literature for the study of Cantonese opera.

Media representatives are cordially invited to the briefing, details are as follows:

Date: December 12, 2013 (Thursday)
Time: 3:00pm
Venue: Room 206, Runme Shaw Building, Main Campus, HKU

Dr. Dorothy Ng, Assistant Professor of HKU Faculty of Education and Mr. Rupert Chan, a veteran translator will introduce the project and the publication. Mr. Frankie Yeung, the Chairman of Cantonese Opera Development Fund Advisory Committee will give an address.

For media enquiries, please contact Mr. K K Choi, Project Manager (Mobile: 9123 5941 / E-mail: kaikwong@gmail.com) or Ms Queenie Wong, Senior Manager (Development and Communications), Faculty of Education, HKU (Tel: 2219 4270 / Mobile: 9220 5840 / E-mail: qlpwong@hku.hk).

Sandro Botticelli’s Venus – An Italian High Renaissance Masterpiece
The Consulate General of Italy in Hong Kong and Macau, the Italian Cultural Institute and the University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG) of the University of Hong Kong are honoured to present to the public one of Italy’s “national treasures” - Venus (ca. 1482) by Florentine Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510) from October 18 to December 15, 2013 in the University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG) of the University of Hong Kong.

Exhibition Details :
Period: October 18th through December 15th, 2013
Time: 9:30am to 6pm, Monday to Saturday; 1 pm to 6pm on Sunday
Venue: University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG) of the University of Hong Kong
Enquiry: (852) 2241 5500
Admission: Free admission

For media enquiries, please contact  Miss Elena Cheung (HKU University Museum and Art Gallery) tel.: 2241 5512; email: museum@hku.hk or  Ms Rhea Leung (Manager (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office) tel: 2857 8555 email:  museum@hku.hk