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28 Feb 2014

Exploring Alternative Fuel Vehicles in Hong Kong first seminar: Liquefied Natural Gas
The Environmental Management Association of Hong Kong (EMAHK) and the MSc. in Environmental Management Programme of the University of Hong Kong have jointly organized this seminar, which will bring together academics, operators and Zhuhai Government officials to share their views and experience on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) as an alternative fuel to relieve the roadside air pollution in our city.

This event embarks discussion and view sharing among experts and users of alternative fuel vehicles. We sincerely invite you to explore the feasibility of LNG fuel vehicles in Hong Kong.

Speakers
- Professor Bill BARRON, Professor, Institute for the Environment, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
- Mr. Nick LEACH, Director, Vehicle Sales Support Asia, Sales & Service Management, Scania (Hong Kong) Limited
- Professor NING Zhi, Assistant Professor, School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong
- Professor XU Yuan, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Resource Management, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Ms. Wang Ling, Deputy Director, Zhuhai Environmental Protection Bureau, PRC
- Mr. Huang Wenzhong, Director, Zhuhai Transportation Bureau, PRC

Panelists
- Mr. Freeman CHEUNG, Senior Vice President, Environment, Greater China, AECOM
- Dr. HUNG Wing-Tat, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Mr. Simon NG, Head of Transport and Sustainability Research, Civic Exchange
- Dr. William YU, Member, Energy Advisory Committee, Environment Bureau, HKSAR; CEO, World Green Organization
- Mr. ZHANG Rong Wang, President, CNOOC Gas and Power Ltd. Guangdong Trading & Marketing Branch Company

Date: March 1, 2014 (Saturday)
Time: 2 to 6pm (Registration starts at 1:30pm)
Venue: Rayson Huang Theatre, the University of Hong Kong

Interviews and photo/video opportunities can be arranged upon early notice before the event.

For programme details, please visit: www.emahk.org

For enquiries, please contact Teresa Leung teresa.leung@emahk.org / (852) 9466 4862.

About EMAHK
The Environmental Management Association of Hong Kong (EMAHK) is established since 2010. We aim to improve the quality of Hong Kong’s and its vicinity’s environment through stressing the importance of environmental management. Comprising mainly members holding MSc. Environmental Management (MSc ENVM) from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) or higher degrees from related fields in different institutions, we bring in both academic and professional views on what is needed to manage the many challenges to our environment in the face of continuous economic development. Our input covers issues from environmental policy to specific issues and projects. (www.emahk.org)

HKU Landscape Architecture to present “Hong Kong Platforms: Towards a Sustainable City”
The “Hong Kong Platforms” project, initiated by the Division of Landscape Architecture of the University of Hong Kong, addresses sustainability in Hong Kong by examining the physical environment that we live in and connecting that to our collective future.
The project starts with the MTR Tung Chung Line, and invites the public to explore Hong Kong through a different lens. A series of videos and audio tours featuring the landscape at the eight MTR stations will be uploaded on the platform. The public are invited to participate, via social media, a discussion about the important issues that Hong Kong now faces, e.g. how to balance the protection of ecological habitat with pressing cultural concerns, where in the city can we implement environmental and socially viable planning solutions and how can the residents of Hong Kong contribute to a sustainable city.

March 1, 2014 (Saturday)

Public forum “Sustaining Hong Kong”
Speakers: Ms. Eunice Seng, Assistant Professor of Architecture, HKU; Dr. Glenn Frommer, Former Chief Sustainable Development Manager at MTR; Professor Gordon Matthews, Professor of Anthropology, CUHK, and Dr Lee Hoyin, Director of the Architectural Conservation Programs, HKU.
Time: 10:30am to 12:30pm
Venue: Room 726, Knowles Building, HKU
Exhibition Opening & Reception
Time: 2pm to 3pm
Venue: Central Oasis Gallery, Central
(Exhibition from March 1 to 14, 8:30am to 10pm daily)
Guided Tours at the eight stations along the MTR Tung Chung Line.
Members of the public are invited to join one of the guided tours at the eight Tung Chung Line stations, each with a theme including heritage, transportation, urban renewal, food, shipping, housing, tourism and ecology.
Time: 4pm
(Priority will be given to those who sign up in advance. For registration and more details about the tours, please visit:http://goo.gl/XKnfoN)

March 3, 2014 (Monday)
Special lecture: Urban Imaginaries: representation and Hong Kong
Speakers: Jason Carlow, Assistant Professor of Architecture, HKU; and Dorothy Tang, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, HKU
Time: 7pm
Venue: Room 102, KK Leung Building, HKU, Pokfulam Road

Interactive platforms for public discussion
“Hong Kong Platforms” is a discussion platform that seeks the public’s opinion about the future of our city. Please download the iPhone app, visit our website, like us on facebook, and upload pictures that represent issues of sustainability in Hong Kong.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hongkongplatforms

For media enquiries, please contact Ms Vincci Mak, Assistant Professor at Division of Landscape Architecture, email:wsvmak@hku.hk, tel: 3917 5654; or Ms Melanie Wan (Manager (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office) tel: 2859 2600 email: melwkwan@hku.hk.

HKU Press to hold book launch on “The Judicial Construction of Hong Kong's Basic Law: Courts, Politics and Society after 1997”
After 1997, there were court cases which were of much concern by Hong Kong people: the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Case, the Democratic Republic of the Congo Case, the Evangeline Banao Vallejos Case, and the Chong Fung Yuen Case. By interpreting the Basic Law, Hong Kong’s courts have reviewed legislation and executive decisions, and have achieved a ‘second founding’ of the Basic Law as an enforceable constitution. The Judicial Construction of Hong Kong’s Basic Law, written by the experienced legal practitioner Lo Pui Yin, is the first comprehensive account of how the Hong Kong courts gained this vital power of judicial review. Through an analysis of important court cases since 1997, the book also examines how the Hong Kong courts maintain their relationships with the executive and legislature, and with China’s Central Authorities, which have been sceptical of these achievements.

Lo Pui Yin is a barrister specializing in constitutional and human rights law. He is the author of several books and articles on law in Hong Kong.

On March 4 (Tuesday), the Hong Kong University Press will have the launch of Mr Lo’s book and another law book Reforming Law Reform: Perspectives from Hong Kong and Beyond, edited by Michael Tilbury, Simon N. M. Young and Ludwig Ng. All are welcome.

Book Launch
Date: March 4, 2014 (Tuesday)
Time: 5:30 to 7:00 p.m.
Venue: Kelly & Walsh Ltd., Shop 204, Pacific Place, Admiralty
Enquiry: 3917 7801 / upweb@hku.hk
Please register:http://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=28716

More information about the books at:
http://www.hkupress.org/book/9789888208074.htm
(The Judicial Construction of Hong Kong’s Basic Law)
http://www.hkupress.org/book/9789888208241.htm
(Reforming Law Reform)

For arrangement of interviews with the authors, please contact Ms Jenifer Lim of HKU Press at emaill: jlim@hku.hk, or tel: 3917 7802.

HKUL Book Talk: Conan Doyle: Writing, Profession, and Practice
Arthur Conan Doyle is best-known as the creator of the perennially popular detective Sherlock Holmes, but he also wrote historical adventures, scientific romances like The Lost World, supernatural tales, journalism and memoirs. He was a campaigner against injustice, and a believer in Spiritualism. This book is a cultural biography and critical study which investigates Conan Doyle as a maker of culture, an important interpreter of the times he lived in, especially in the spheres of sport, medicine, science, law and order, army and empire, and the life of the spirit.

Speaker: Professor Douglas Kerr
Moderator: Dr. Evelyn Chan (Dept. of English, CUHK)
Date: March 6, 2014
Time: 7:15pm to 9:00pm
Venue: Special Collections, 1/F Main Library
Language: English
Registration: http://lib.hku.hk/friends/reading_club/bt2014_02.html

About the Speaker
Douglas Kerr is a Professor of English and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at The Hong Kong University. He has written books about the English war poet Wilfred Owen, the political writer George Orwell, and the ways the East has been imagined by British writers in the colonial and postcolonial period. He is a former Chairman of the Board of the Hong Kong International Literary Festival, and presenter of the RTHK Radio 3 programme The Big Idea.

Media Contact: Mr. Gary Chin (Public Relations & Development Manager), Tel: 2859 2211

University Museum and Art Gallery exhibition: “Surviving Evil: The Pictorial Language of Sara Atzmon”
The Hong Kong Holocaust and Tolerance Centre, the University Museum and Art Gallery and Goethe-Institut Hong Kong are organising a major exhibition in Hong Kong of artworks by Sara Atzmon, a Shoah (Holocaust) survivor who was born in Hungary and now resides in Israel. Ms. Atzmon’s artworks, many of which are large-scale, highly impactful paintings, reflect the artist’s memories of her horrible experiences during the Shoah. In 1944, Ms. Atzmon was first deported to Auschwitz and from there she was sent to Bergen-Belsen under terrible circumstances.

As an adult, Ms. Atzmon became a talent painter dedicated to use her, often very dramatic and explicit, paintings, to bring awareness to the cruel times in our fairly recent past, and to educate a young generation to treasure and practice tolerance, and foster understanding and compassion between people of different religions and cultural backgrounds.

Period: February 26, 2014 (Wednesday) to May 4, 2014 (Sunday)
Opening Hours: 09:30 to 18:00 (Monday – Saturday); 13:00 – 18:00 (Sunday). Closed on University and Public Holidays
Venue: 1/F, T.T. Tsui Building, University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong
Tel: (852) 2241 5500 (General Enquiry)
Free Admission

For media enquiries, please contact:
Miss Elena Cheung (Communication Officer), Tel: (852) 2241 5512, Email: elenac@hku.hk

For details of the exhibition, please contact:
University Museum and Art Gallery, the University of Hong Kong, Tel: 2241 5500, Email: museum@hku.hk.

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