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The ‘Yew Chung model’ of international education
Tristan Bunnell
Dec 01, 2015
The Yew Chung Educational Foundation operates a network of five International Schools in China, plus one in California, serving in total 5,500 children. This paper investigates the aims and philosophy of a ‘model’ of...
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The ‘Yew Chung model’ of international education
Tristan Bunnell
Dec 01, 2015
The Yew Chung Educational Foundation operates a network of five International Schools in China, plus one in California, serving in total 5,500 children. This paper investigates the aims and philosophy of a ‘model’ of...
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Cantonese Children's Songs in Hong Kong
Lily Chen-Hafteck
Nov 19, 2013
A century of British colonial rule over a population of Chinese majority has resulted in a special culture of Hong Kong. While the local people have maintained a considerable amount of the traditional Chinese culture, a very...
Published by: Faculty of Education
Cantonese Children's Songs in Hong Kong
Lily Chen-Hafteck
Nov 19, 2013
A century of British colonial rule over a population of Chinese majority has resulted in a special culture of Hong Kong. While the local people have maintained a considerable amount of the traditional Chinese culture, a very...
Published by: Faculty of Education
Loss sensitive investors and positively biased analysts in Hong Kong stock market
Abstract: The Hong Kong stock market is known to be highly volatile. Professional investors have a strong demand for timely information because of the infrequent nature of Hong Kong analysts’ interim reports (Cheng et al....
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Education for Justice-Oriented and Participatory Citizenship in a Politicized Era in Hong Kong
Shun Ng, Koon Wong
Nov 27, 2020
This chapter aims at introducing issues of citizenship education arising from the social, historical, and political context of Hong Kong before and after its handover from Britain to the People's Republic of China in 1997. It...
English as a lingua franca communication between domestic helpers and employers in Hong Kong
This paper discusses an exploratory, small-scale study that investigated the use of English as a lingua franca in domestic workplaces in Hong Kong between Filipino employees and Hong Kongese employers. Through data collected...
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Forecasting Migration to the United States from Hong Kong and India
This study investigates the forecasting of migration from India and Hong Kong to the United States. To study this, quantitative design is employed so numerical data can be used. The proposed research strategy uses the...
English as a lingua franca communication between domestic helpers and employers in Hong Kong
This paper discusses an exploratory, small-scale study that investigated the use of English as a lingua franca in domestic workplaces in Hong Kong between Filipino employees and Hong Kongese employers. Through data collected...
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Revealing the impacts of passive cooling techniques on building energy performance
CR Yu, HS Guo, QC Wang, RD Chang
Jun 19, 2020
Environmental concerns and growing energy costs raise the importance of sustainable development and energy conservation. The building sector accounts for a significant portion of total energy consumption. Passive cooling...
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Navigating Central-Local Dynamics
Wing-chung Ho
Jan 01, 2024
This paper examines the central-local relation between Beijing and Hong Kong in the final stage of the COVID-19 combat, by analyzing Hong Kong's policy responses regarding public space governance in 2022. Drawing on the combined...
Sulfation and amidinohydrolysis in the biosynthesis of giant linear polyenes.
Clethramycin from Streptomyces malaysiensis DSM4137, and mediomycins (produced together with clethramycin from Streptomyces mediocidicus), are near-identical giant linear polyenes apparently constructed from, respectively, a...
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Newspaper representation and power relations in infrastructure projects
AHY Lee, EA Silva
Jan 25, 2017
This paper explores newspapers’ representation of different actors in infrastructure projects, and analyses the power relations between them through a case study in Hong Kong. The case in question is the highly controversial...
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Analysis of the Establishment and Closure of the Ta Teh Institute in British Hong Kong during the Chinese Civil War
Chung Fun Steven Hung
Aug 25, 2016
The Ta Teh Institute was a prominent and important higher learning institute that existed in Hong Kong during the period of the Chinese Civil War, after the Second World War. The institute was founded in October, 1946 and then...
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Prevalence of dementia in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan
BACKGROUND: There are several existing systematic reviews of prevalence of dementia for mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, but several studies have been newly reported. The aim of this study is to update prevalence data in...
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