...VISION 2 3 Election 2012, has provided me with a much deeper understanding of the expectations of different sectors in our society. And, at the same time, it has strengthened my resolve to serve the community as a whole. During this period, my campaign team and I have visited all 18 districts, held consultative gatherings ~ "Together we write the Manifesto" ~ and met with people from all walks of life at close quarters. We listened to the views expressed by ordinary people, who make up the majority of the population, and we talked to business people, both big corporations and local traders alike. We attended numerous other activities, met with Members of the Election Committee and answered their queries. Every step of the way, we were accompanied by the media, reporting and helping us to spread our messages to those who were not able to come to the gatherings. We were mindful that every proposal which we put forward would be examined and every promise which we made would be remembered, and we fully expected that we would be held accountable. As I have repeatedly said during my campaign, I face not just Members of the Election Committee but the seven million citizens of Hong Kong. I hold myself accountable to them, each and every one. I have placed before my fellow citizens my vision...
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...The United States V.S. Hong Kong When you travel to another country, you can definitely realize there are lots of conspicuous differences between the country and yours. I have been studying in the States for some time. At the outset, I found it hard to adapt to the new environment since there are significant differences between the States and the place where I was brought up—Hong Kong, especially in several major areas of food culture, environment, and lifestyle. One big difference between the States and Hong Kong is food culture. “Pizzas, burgers and French Fries are our regular meals!” one American student told me. I do agree with her, for I have seen pizzas, burgers and French fries appear in the school cafeteria every day since I arrived. Moreover, McDonald’s, Burger King and Papa Gino’s, which sell fast food, dominate in the States. If you stay in the States for a while, you’ll definitely familiarize yourself with various types of pizzas and burgers: Pepperoni Pizza—pizza dough topped with tomato sauce mixture, cheese and pepperoni; Hawaiian Pizza—combines sweet with sour; Double Cheese Burger—consists of beef patties, melted cheese and mustard. However, for the Chinese, steamed rice, cooked or fried vegetables and fish are main meals in Hong Kong. Apart from that, food in the United States only satisfies hunger. In contrast, food in Hong Kong “is also an expression of cultural identity and the choice or rejection of certain types of food, the...
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...Study of Hong Kong and other Chinese Cities Hong-kin Kwok Published online: 7 March 2012 Ó Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 Abstract Understanding the encounter of different generations may be a determining factor in the success of organizations. In order to have a clear understanding about the new generation, this article examines the working encounter of Generation Y. Generation Y in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and four cities in mainland China were studied. How the social environment influenced their attitudes and behavior in work and geographical mobility, and how geographical mobility created problems to the migrants were studied. We find that the Generation Y in Hong Kong is facing more competition than the Generation Y in mainland. In geographical mobility, most of the respondents accept geographical mobility. The findings provide some insights on how the social environment shapes the generation. Keywords China Á Generation Y Á Geographical mobility Á Globalization Introduction Nowadays, human resource managers and owners are becoming interested in how to recruit, manage, and work with people from different generations in the workplace. Understanding the attitudes of different generations will be H. Kwok Department of Sociology and Social Policy, Lingnan University, 8 Castle Peak Road, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong, China H. Kwok (&) Flat S, 11/F., Braemar Terrace, 1 Pak Fuk Road, North Point, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China ...
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...The University of Hong Kong Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine Faculty Graduation a... HOME REGISTRATION CEREMONY INFORMATION Speech by Professor Lung Ying-tai PHOTO Page 1 of 3 HKU 185th CONGREGRATION 中文譯本 Faculty Graduation and Prize Presentation Ceremony November 28, 2011 Members of the faculty, distinguished guests, proud parents, and graduates: Enquiry: HKU Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine Tel: (852) 2819 2851 Fax: (852) 2974 0678 Email: medfac@hku.hk Speech by Professor Lung Ying-tai I am most reluctant in giving graduation addresses because the given audience is usually the worst kind --before you open your mouth, they wish you were already done, and whatever you say, they are determined that they won't remember a thing once they are out of the hall. Under these tough circumstances, I still have to say that it's not only an honor and pleasure for me to be here with you today; it's also a calculated pre-emptive measure because sooner or later, one way or another, I am going to fall into your hands. And when our paths do cross, I naturally would hope that you are not only professionally excellent but also socially committed and compassionate. Today is the graduation ceremony for your Study Phase I, medicine, and it's also the inauguration ceremony for your Study Phase II, the study of life. So I'd like to share with you some of my own notes about life. I grew up in a port city in southern Taiwan called Kaohsiung...
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...In this essay, I will discuss the physical and psychological needs of a three year old and how to meet these in a setting. For the development of a child, both physical and psychological needs are very important. As a learning practitioner it is fundamental to understand these two aspects, for when nurtured in harmony, it creates a responsive child. The children’s growth is dependent to some factors such as genetics and interactions with his environment. There have been studies with regards on how physical and psychological needs affects the children from infant to adulthood. There are key developmental transitions in physical development and three year olds are categorized as walkers, talkers and pretenders (Macleod-Brudenell & Kay 2008 p86). To further explain physical and psychological needs, let us define the word need? It is a noun that means “requirement; circumstances requiring action” (Waite, 1998 p423). This research is mostly based on the MCI Modules 4 & 5 Contemporary Issues and Advanced Early Years 2nd Edition. The Physical needs of three year olds are of utmost importance since they are in the middle of their growth from infancy and an older child. A child will need proper nourishment, exercise that is for his age, ample rest and sleep, playing and learning, hygiene and health and safety. These needs are mainly to have a strong physical body for better physical development. A three year old will often want to merge their skills by doing an action repeatedly. Hygiene...
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...“I really enjoy living out of my home country,” says Zoey when being asked if she misses her hometown. Not everyone knew that Zoey is an international student. Being born and raised in Hong Kong, Zoey explains she never had many friends and emphasized that Hong Kong occasionally felt crowded. From a jam-packed city in Hong Kong, China, Zoey moved to Everett in 2015 to pursue a degree in arts at Everett Community College. During her enrollment, Zoey explained that she had not communicated with her family for a month, this made her family, especially her mom, mad and worried. Her relation has improved due to the communication classes Zoey claims she took here at Everett Community College. She eventually changed her degree to arts and communication and is pursuing an AA degree....
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...Un Cheuk Lam 4C35 The Cinema of Hong Kong has consider as the pioneer of Chinese language movie. Hong Kong was the third largest motion picture industry in the world (after Hollywood and India cinema) and the second largest exporter. Hong Kong film has retained much of its distinctive identity and continues to play a prominent part on the world cinema stage. In the West, Hong Kong's vigorous pop cinema (especially Hong Kong action cinema) has long had a strong cult following, which is now arguably a part of the cultural mainstream, widely available and imitated. Especially between the 1970's - 1990's, most of movie fans will be familiar with names like Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan from Hong Kong cinema. The reason why these movie star become so popular because they produce a lot of martial art film during that time. And then these martial art film brought to the western audiences. In fact, A lot of english speaking country or european start to aware of Asian movie in that time. Back to Hong Kong cinema, The cinema of Hong Kong is one of the major movie industry in the Chinese language speaking cinema. Before 1997, Hong Kong was a colony of Britain and therefore Hong Kong had a greater freedom on economic and political than mainland China. Even in film industry, The censorship system in Mainland China have a very strict rule. " Hong Kong filmmakers either steered away from criticzing China or did so in oblique ways ". Therefore, the Hong Kong film maker can barely sell their film...
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...1. Is it ever okay to lie? Lies have always been part of the fabric of social life, they are important in many ways such as maintaining social ties. A study published in the Journal of Basic and Applied found that 60% of people had lied at least once during a 10-minutes conversation. Personally, I agree that telling the truth is not always essential and it is also necessary to tell lies sometimes. Hereby, I wish to put forward two arguments to justify my point of view. First and foremost, lies could be conducive to relationship. Lies could help people to smooth over awkward and embarrassing situation. Let’s imagine if you have arranged to meet somebody early in the morning and you didn’t manage to wake up on time so that you are late. Probably, you will not be telling the truth but instead, you will make up an excuse, for example, traffic jam holding you up. People lie because you consider being late because of sleeping in as an act of irresponsibility and irreverence. By telling lies, people could avoid embarrassment as well as shifting the responsibilities to other shoulders that they feel less guilty of their fault. Your blame is shifted that the person affected by your act of irresponsibility will not be irrigated and raged that much. To wrap up, telling lies can help people to maintain good relationship by avoiding discord. Secondly, telling lies can prevent people from unnecessary nuisance as well as safeguarding their privacy. Coming across people doing questionnaire...
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...adapt to the Hong Kong style of family management 21st November, 2013 In this essay we discuss the cross-cultural differences in the household management of handling children between the Philippines and Hong Kong. Managing children in HK households In Hong Kong, Filipino maids make up 3% of the population. They are especially common amongst families who prefer an English speaking maid. Hong Kong people utilize maids for household management and supervision of the children while both parents have full time jobs. In many situations, the maids will spend far more time with the children than both the parents. Thus, the management of children in Hong Kong is highly related to the amah in the family. There are certain requirements of maids before employment in Hong Kong: * 2/3 Weeks training of Chinese household management * Experience in managing children As most of employers are busy at work, the maid becomes a critical part in the family in taking care of the children during daytime. From school activities to playground, the maid has full responsibility to take care of the children. Management of Children in Philippines: Most of the population in Phillipines do not have maids. In the case where the mother is a maid in Hong Kong, then the grandparents or the father need to shoulder the responsibility of taking care of the children. Differences: In this part we analyze how the maid manages the children of her employer in Hong Kong, and how it...
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...positions overseas as an alternative however, he expected to complete an internship within Australia. After his last internship application in Australia was rejected, Mark felt incredibly deflated and was now worried he would not even land an internship position at all. Two days later, he received the following email: “Congratulations Mark, we are delighted to inform you that you have been accepted into JDH’s marketing summer internship program in Hong Kong…” After receiving this offer, Mark soon realised he was about to leave Australia for the first time in his life. He was incredibly anxious; knowing little of what lies for him on the other side of the world. Although Mark had been working part-time at a large department store for the past year, he never experienced work life in a corporate setting, let alone a different country, and was unaware but curious about potential differences in ethics and culture. On the 3rd of December 2011 at 8:20am, Mark set off on a grueling eight hour plane trip to Hong Kong. When arriving at Hong Kong International Airport, Mark noticed a lot of immigration and customs staff had a very limited grasp of English. Even when being asked whether there was any live meat in his baggage, staff had to use gestures and signs in order to communicate with him. This was surprising to Mark as he previously researched that both English and...
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...HKU SPACE Community College Associate Degree Programme First Semester 2012-2013 English for Academic and Professional Purposes (Part II) Assignment 2: Research Report “The Attitudes towards Homosexual among HKU SPACE Community College Students" To: Ms. Winnie Tsang From: Liu Tak Wing Mark James (10520098) Lam Pui Yan, Winnie (10519795) Pang Yin Chun, Sean (10520113) Fong Man Wai, YoYo (10518801) Suen Cheuk Wing Kevin (10520889) Class: CC 88-363-01-22 Submission Date: 07December 2012 Table of Contents Table contentsList of figures 1. INTRODUCTION 2.1 Abstract 2.2 Introduction 2.3 Methodology 2. DISCUSSTION 3.4 Acceptance of homosexuality in specific situations 3.5.1 Teacher 3.5.2 Friend 3.5.3 Family member 3.5 Homosexual celebrities 3.6.4 Attitudes towards homosexual celebrities 3.6.5 Influence of homosexual celebrities 3.6 Homosexuality in public 3.7.6 Education and knowledge in homosexuality 3.7.7 Anti-discrimination in educational 3.7.8 Anti-discrimination in workplace 3. CONCLUSION 4. RECOMMENDATIONS 5. WORKS CITED 6. APPENDIX | Page23456-78-999-1011-1212-131414-1516-17181920-22 | List of Figures Figure 1.1 Gender of respondentsFigure 1.2 Age group of respondentsFigure 2.1 Acceptance of homosexuality in friendsFigure 2.2 Acceptance of homosexuality...
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...This is a qualitative history interview report about the cause and consequences of immigration to America about my grandfather, Herman Lau, when he left Hong Kong in the year of 1945 and immigrated to America in the year of 1950. Under the constant shift of the political sovereignty of Hong Kong in the 90s, Herman experienced ruling and warfare involved with British Government and the Army of Japan. The future of Herman wasn’t in a clear prospect. Herman no longer sees Hong Kong as a place for him to develop his career or a safe place to live anymore. He left his parents and his homeland in 1945 and took the job as the engineering crew member of a merchandise ship that went back and forward between different places of China and San Francisco, with the goal of moving to a safer place to live and regaining the socio-economic status he owned before the occupation of Japan Interview Born in Hong Kong in the year of 1926, Herman Lau experienced the many social chaos and hardships while growing up, including the British colony period (1841-1997), the Japanese occupation period (1941-1945), and also the process of the establishment of People’s...
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...How does the design of Starbucks compare to other Coffee Shops in order to appeal to customers? Abstract: In order to overcome my curiosity of investigating the ways of which Starbucks Coffee Shop differs itself uniquely from other coffee shops, I will investigate the difference between the three Starbucks Coffee Shops of Sha Tin New Town Plaza, Hong Kong. Not only will I analyze the different design factors of Starbucks, but I will also be comparing them against the competitors within the perimeters of Sha Tin, Hong Kong. I will conduct an interview with a Coffee Shop entrepreneur; give out questionnaires to random customers of the three different Starbucks Coffee Shops of Sha Tin New Town Plaza, as well as observing the surroundings with my personal judgment. Furthermore, I am going to research the background and history of the Starbucks Coffee Shop design. Starbucks Coffee Shop originates from Seattle, and the after employing several designers, Schultz finally come across Wright Massey who quoted 'they didn't want any two stores to look alike'1. I conclude from my research, that Starbucks is unique from other Coffee shops in terms of its store designs, as well as its products. Aside from this, each of their stores are similar since their designs are of a template, but there are no two stores that are identical. From my observations, I round that the three Starbucks stores of Sha Tin New Town Plaza have their own styles. 1 ‗STARBUCKED A Double Tall Tale...
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...Six years ago, I was living in repetition. This was abruptly interrupted by my mom who asked if I wanted to move to Hong Kong. Without hesitation, I shouted “Yes!” I knew nothing would stop me from moving once again to another country. As soon as I received the green light, I threw my belongings in boxes and was ready to embark on the next chapter. Embracing change may help an individual adapt, by allowing them to feel apart of a new community. However, change is not for everyone. One may feel homesick, ostracized or even develop a mental illness. Packing is just another task I do often. This time was slightly different. Not only did I have to pack clothes and the necessities, but I had to pack up my life. The small trinkets to the large furniture, everything had to be accounted for. Although packing can feel like a daunting task, it fills me with joy every time, because I know am one step closer to a new adventure. Whether I only have to pack a weekend...
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...“My Home Purchase Plan” (「置安心資助房屋計劃」) is an plan announced in the 2010-2011 policy address by the Chief Executive of HKSAR, Mr. Donald Tsang. Under this Plan, the Government will provide land for the HKHS (Hong Kong Housing Society) to build “no-frills” small and medium flats for lease to eligible applicants at prevailing market rent. The tenancy period will be up to five years, within which the rent will not be adjusted. Within a specified time frame, tenants of the Plan may purchase the flat they rent or another flat under the Plan at prevailing market price, or a flat in the private market. They will receive a subsidy equivalent to half of the net rental they have paid during the tenancy period, and use it for part of the down payment. The Government has already earmarked sites in Tsing Yi, Diamond Hill, Sha Tin, Tai Po, Tuen Mun and other areas for a total of some 5000 flats to be built under the Plan. The first project will provide about 1000 flats in Tsing Yi by 2014. In the point of view of the Government, they would like to wisely spending the money of helping the sandwich class with flexibility in their home purchase plan, including the choice of opting to purchase the flat they rent, another flat under the plan, or a flat in the private market; which also want to help on slowing down the raising on both rental and purchasing prices currently in the market. The Government thinks that the current price in the market has been raised too fast and too high which...
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