Media Review (No.3/2002)

Prepared by the Office of University Development and Public Affairs

A total of 73 substantive reports mentioning UST were collected. ** denotes items involving OUDPA media liaison, press enquiries, media invitation or supply of information.

1. Newspaper articles discussing mission differentiation among local universities mentioned UST as a research university and SCMP (25/1); and HK Economic Journal (24/1); News (22/1); Daily News (21/1).

2. A small fire broke out at MFF and was put out by UST staff before the fire services arrived at campus** Ming Pao Daily News, Sing Tao Daily News, The Sun, Sing Pao Daily News, and HK Daily News (24/1).

3. An open verdict was returned in the coroner's inquest into the death of Dr Kristy Cua, formerly an assistant professor at UST** SCMP, The Sun and Ming Pao Daily News (24/1); Ming Pao Daily News, The Sun, Apple Daily, Oriental Daily News and SCMP (24/1).

4. Prof Chia-Wei WOO, President Emeritus, has been invited to be a board member of a new private independent school Ta Kung Pao, SCMP, Apple Daily, HK Economic Times and Sing Tao Daily News (24/1).

5. A student wrote on her campus life at UST Ta Kung Pao (24/1).

6. The ranking of UST's full-time MBA program has moved up one place to the world's 47th in the 2002 Financial Times rankings** Yangcheng Wanbao (23/1); Ming Pao Daily News 2 articles, The Sun, Sing Tao Daily News, Apple Daily 3 articles, Ta Kung Pao, Sing Pao Daily News, , Oriental Daily News, HK Economic Times, SCMP, HK Daily News, HK Commercial Daily, chinanews.com and News Agency (22/1).

7. Prof Francis LUI (ECON) commented on economic issues HK Economic Times (23/1), Ming Pao Daily News, Apple Daily, The Sun, Oriental Daily News and Sing Tao Daily News (18/1).

8. UST offers various education programs for gifted secondary schools children** Wen Wei Po (23/1), Sing Tao Daily News (22/1), Ming Pao Daily News and Sing Tao Daily News (19/1).

9. Prof Chia-Wei WOO, President Emeritus, discussed various aspects of HK's development Wen Wei Po (22/1) and Sing Tao Daily News (16/1).

10. A UST student talked about her part time jobs Sing Pao Daily News (22/1).

11. A seminar on supply chain management was held at UST HK Economic Journal (21/1).

12. Police superintendent Hilton CHAN's research and teaching activities at UST were questioned in some press reports Apple Daily and Oriental Daily News (20/1).

13. President Paul CHU called for more Government funding on higher education so as to boost science and technology development ** Ta Kung Pao (18/1).

14. President Paul CHU gave a talk, with demonstration, on superconductivity to secondary school students** Ming Pao Daily News, Sing Tao Daily News and Oriental Daily News (18/1); Ta Kung Pao (17/1); Sing Tao Daily News (15/1).

15. UST offers a professional diploma course in Chinese herbal medicine Sing Tao Daily News (18/1).

16. Microsoft has made donations to tertiary institutions, including UST, to set up computer software laboratories Sing Tao Daily News (16/1); Ming Pao Daily News and HK Economic Times (15/1).

17. The Cyberspace Center of UST published an internet security handbook Ming Pao Daily News and HK Economic Times (15/1).

18. A feature on the UST Library's collections and its employment of modern technologies** Sing Pao Daily News (13/1).

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

HKUST and other UGC-funded tertiary institutions are negotiating with the Copyrights Licensing Services Ltd., which represents 12 newspapers in Hong Kong, regarding licenses to make photocopies of newspaper clippings. Before the negotiation is concluded, we are unable to provide clippings for photocopying. Most of the clippings are available in HKUST News Clippings Online (http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/newsclip.pl) through the Library's subscription to the WiseNews service.

This review is mainly based on newspaper clippings about UST. All information recorded here is as reported in the original articles. Names and terms are translated from the Chinese as best as we can when official translations are not immediately available. (SCMP) and Hong Kong iMail (iMail) are English newspapers. Enquiries can be made to the Office of University Development and Public Affairs (ext 8555 or 6305).