Media Review, No. 1/94

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[evdate 1994-01-08] WEEKLY MEDIA REVIEW (NO.1/94) --Prepared by King Cheng

1. Merrill Lynch sponsors 40 HKUST finance students to a study tour in Shanghai SCMP (28/12) and 5 Chinese papers (24-30) reported that the students would visit the Shanghai stock exchange, the Shanghai Foreign Exchange Adjustment Centre and the Pudong Development Board during their week-long visit. Both Huanan Jingji Journal (30/12) and Wah Kiu Yat Po (29/12) carried a picture of Dr K C Chan of Finance and two student representatives during the cheque presentation ceremony.

2. HKUST offers Internet service to the public IT Asia (12/93) reported this service. Sing Tao Daily (30/12) carried a one-page special feature on the topic and HK Standard (30/12) carried an interview with Mr Bob Coggeshall, Project Manager for the Sino Software Research Centre. (The item was extensively covered by the press earlier. Please refer media review no. 47/93.)

3. VC/P speaks at the congregation of Kiangsu - Chekiang College SCMP (Young Post) (22/12) reported that VC/P urged the students to go as far as they could in their area of study and to cultivate independent thought. (This event was mentioned in review no. 50/93.)

4. VC/P attends Zhuhai Science and Technology Association's meeting Macao Daily News (24/12) reported that over 300 people, including VC/P, attended the meeting which was held in Zhuhai on 23/12/93.

5. HKUST to hold audit workshop on Total Quality Management Sing Tao Daily (23/12) picked up our press release on this workshop which will be held later in 1/94. The workshop is jointly organised by the Office of PVC(R&D) and HKUST RandD Corporation Ltd, in conjunction with John Dodkins Associates, UK.

6. HKUST students participate in Entrepreneur of Tomorrow competition Captital (1/11) carried a major feature on this competition for students of UPGC member institutions. A project on advertising designed by a group of three HKUST students received the award for the 2nd runner-up.

7. UPGC will fund member institutions according to performance Sing Tao Daily (19/12) reported that for the period 1995-98, UPGC would fund member institutions according to their performance in teaching and research.

8. Dr John Holt of Humanities serves as a judge at the International Education Forum's American Academic Year Program - Scholarship Contest 1994 Sing Tao Daily (22/12) reported this. (The item was reported in review no. 51/93.)

9. January Effect in the stock market In its editorial on this topic, HK Economic Journal (3/1) quoted an article written by Dr K C Wei of Finance. Dr Wei's article was published on 23/9/93.

10. HKUST purchases 28 SGI workstations Wah Kiu Yat Po (16/12) reported that HKUST spent US$1.2 M on workstations for the Dept. of Computer Science.

Note:

This review is mainly based on newspaper clippings on UST received within the week. Enquiries and suggestions can be made to Office of Public Affairs (ext. 6305 or 6306). A set of the clippings is available in the Reference Section of the Library (where items may be photocopied if desired). This review is for information only. All information recorded here is as reported in the original articles. Names and terms are translated from the Chinese as best we are able when official translations are not immediately available. South China Morning Post (SCMP) and Hong Kong Standard (HKS) are English newspapers.