Media Review (No.4/2002)

Prepared by the Office of University Development and Public Affairs

A total of 38 substantive reports mentioning UST were collected. ** denotes items involving OUDPA media liaison, press enquiries, media invitation or supply of information.

1. Local universities, including UST, are considering ways to admit gifted Form 6 students** SCMP (2/2); and News (1/2); Sing Tao Daily News, and (31/1); Ming

Pao Daily News (30/1).

2. Reports on MBA programs mentioned UST's SCMP (2/2); Sing Tao Daily News (18/1, 25/1, 28/1 and 1/2); SCMP (26/1).

3. Prof Ping Keung KO (ELEC) discussed the future of high technology industries in HK HK Economic Journal (1/2).

4. In an RTHK program, President Paul CHU talked about innovations in

manufacturing industries** Sing Tao Daily News (1/2).

5. Newspaper articles discussing mission differentiation among local universities mentioned UST as a research university Daily News (1/2); Ta Kung Pao (31/1) and Oriental Daily News (29/1); Sing Tao Daily News, SCMP and Ta Kung Pao

(25/1).

6. UST will take part in the Education and Careers Expo in February Ta Kung Pao (1/2).

7. UST was one of the awardees of RGC's Central Allocation grant this

year Sing Tao Daily News, HK Economic Times, Ta Kung Pao and (31/1).

8. A leader article discussing the issue of delinking the university pay system from that of the civil service mentioned that the existing system provided little means to retain good faculty, such as UST's

The Sun (31/1).

9. A student wrote on the Science Day co-organized by UST and the Education Department Ta Kung Pao (31/1).

10. Prof Ping SHENG (PHYS) received the Leader of the Year Award 2002

(Technology), presented by the Sing Tao Group** Sing Tao Daily News, HK iMail, Ta Kung Pao and Wen Wei Po (30/1); Sing Tao Daily News (26/1).

11. A seminar on supply chain management was held at UST Ta Kung Pao (29/1).

12. Dr Yan XU (ISMT) commented on issues related to the opening up of

the telecommunications markets HK Economic Journal (26/1).

13. Dr David D LI (ECON) discussed about South Korea's new free trade

zone and its impact on and the Chinese Mainland Wen Wei Po (25/1).

14. UST offers a course leading to the Executive Diploma in Management Recruit (18/1)

15. Microsoft has made donations to tertiary institutions, including UST, to set up computer software laboratories Advanced Computer (12/1).

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Because of retrictions on photocopying newspaper articles, OUDPA is unable to provide clippings for photocopying. Most of the clippings are however 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).