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     A girl who went missing in Ngau Tau Kok has been located.      Cheung Hoi-laam, aged 16, went missing after she left her residence on Ngau Tau Kok Road on October 2 morning. Her family made a re… read more

     The University of Law from the UK announced today (November 22) that it has opened an office in preparation for the establishment of its first international campus in Hong Kong slated for opening next year. 

     The University of Law office is up and running with a core team to drive ahead the setting up of the campus, with full support from the university headquarters in the UK, according to the university’s Vice-Chancellor and CEO, Professor Andrea Nollent.

     Professor Nollent said that the decision to establish the campus in the city was timed to tap into the expected surge in demand for international legal services as Hong Kong is the major business platform amid the Belt and Road Initiative. This would consequently increase demand for quality legal training. 

     She said, “Hong Kong is a world hub for commerce, finance, trade, logistics and education and, as such, a very attractive proposition for us. Furthermore, the legal education and training landscape in Hong Kong has grown rapidly but still reflects its English common law origins. Hong Kong’s legal professional arrangements are in many ways similar to those of England and Wales.”

     She added, “Hong Kong’s legal services sector also plays a pivotal role in satisfying the needs of the international investment programme driven by the Chinese Government. The more recent Belt and Road Initiative, which envisages an enormous Chinese investment in infrastructure projects throughout Asia, Africa and even Europe, is expected to increase the demand for services provided by the Hong Kong legal sector.”

     Associate Director-General of Investment Promotion Dr Jimmy Chiang said, “Hong Kong is a leading education hub in the region with many international law firms having a presence in the city. I believe that the new campus of The University of Law, upon opening next year, can leverage Hong Kong’s unique position in the region in terms of education and legal service excellence and expand its brand around the world.” 

About The University of Law

     The University of Law is one of the UK’s longest-established specialist providers of legal education and training in the UK, with campuses in London, Birmingham, Bristol, Chester, Guildford, Manchester and Leeds, as well as GDL and LPC courses being taught in the University of Exeter, the University of Reading and the University of Liverpool. Previously The College of Law, it was granted university status in November 2012. In 2017, The University of Law was awarded a gold ranking in the Government-led Teaching Excellence Framework, making The University of Law one of the highest quality providers of higher education in the UK. For more information, please visit www.law.ac.uk/locations/hong-kong.
 
About Invest Hong Kong

     Invest Hong Kong is the department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government responsible for attracting foreign direct investment and supporting overseas and Mainland businesses to set up or expand in Hong Kong. It provides free advice and customised services for overseas and Mainland companies enrolled as its clients. For more information, please visit www.investhk.gov.hk. read more

     The prize presentation ceremony for the Awards for Creative Writing in Chinese 2018 organised by the Hong Kong Public Libraries (HKPL) of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department was held today (November 22) at the Hong Kong Central Library (HKCL). Forty-five winning works in different genres were selected from over 1,200 entries in six categories, namely poetry, essays, fiction, literary criticism, children’s stories and children’s picture stories.
 
     Speaking at the ceremony, the Acting Director of Leisure and Cultural Services, Ms Ida Lee, said that the Awards for Creative Writing in Chinese is a platform for literature lovers to showcase their creativity and talents, adding that the Awards can bring impetus to Hong Kong literature while boosting public interest in creative writing and ability to appreciate literature. She encouraged the awardees to continue writing so that Hong Kong literature can be passed on from generation to generation.
 
     A list of the winners (in Chinese only) is available at www.hkpl.gov.hk/en/common/attachments/extension-activities/literature/awards-competition/2018AwardsCreative_Result.pdf; The winning works will be on display at Exhibition Galleries 4 and 5 of the HKCL from tomorrow (November 23) to December 5. The awarded works by the winners, first runners-up and second runners-up in the different categories will be published by the HKPL (in Chinese only) for distribution to tertiary institutes, secondary schools, primary schools and literature organisations. Members of the public can also borrow a copy from public libraries or read the works through the HKPL Multimedia Information System (mmis.hkpl.gov.hk).
 
      The adjudication panel was formed by senior writers, editors and scholars and their comments on the entries will be consolidated into an Adjudication Summary Booklet (in Chinese only), which will be available at the Reference Libraries at the HKCL, City Hall Public Library, Kowloon Public Library, Tsuen Wan Public Library, Sha Tin Public Library, Tuen Mun Public Library and Ping Shan Tin Shui Wai Public Library for public reference.
 
     The Awards for Creative Writing in Chinese was organised in 1979 and has been held biennially since 1992, aiming to promote creative writing in Chinese and arouse public interest in appreciating literature. The Awards is a major event in local literature and has helped nurture budding writers over the years, with some of them becoming significant authors and scholars in Hong Kong. read more

     Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited was fined $70,000 at West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts today (November 22) for violation of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance. The prosecution was launched by the Labour Department.

     The case involved a fatal accident that occurred on March 7 in a warehouse at Hong Kong International Airport. A worker carrying out cargo handling work in the warehouse was trapped between cargo being conveyed by a powered conveying system and a closed metal sliding door. He sustained serious bodily injury and passed away on the same day. read more

     The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department today (November 22) said that the CFS, through its routine Food Incident Surveillance System, learnt on November 21 that there were reports in th… read more