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Calvin Choi of AMTD: Roadmap of FinTech Talent Development
January 30, 2021 GMT
HONG KONG, Jan. 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Talent cultivation is the single most important factor in the on-going success of FinTech development in Hong Kong. In Hong Kong FinTech Week, Calvin Choi, Chairman and CEO of AMTD Group, was invited to join a panel discussion on this topic as the representative of private sector, together with Joseph H. L. Chan, JP, Under Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury of Hong Kong SAR, Prof. Kar Yan Tam, Dean and Chair Professor of School of Business and Management of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, to hopefully identify the roadmap to the success of FinTech talent development going forward.
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Book Talk: Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and the Lives of China’s Workers
Jenny Chan, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Mark Selden, Senior Research Associate in the East Asia Program, Cornell University, and at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Moderated by: Qin Gao, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work; Director, China Center for Social Policy
This book talk focuses on the life and death struggles of a new generation of Chinese workers who produce our iPhones, Kindles, and Xboxes. Between the rash of employee suicides in 2010 and the outbreak of coronavirus at the end of 2019, my colleagues and I engaged with Foxconn workers through interviews as well as their shared poems, songs, open letters, photos, and videos, supplemented with meetings with managers and government officials. Taiwanese-owned Foxconn is the world’s largest electronics manufacturer and China’s largest exporter. During the period of
Michael Tien on Conflict Zone There has been a tightening of freedom to express views, particularly when it comes to Hong Kong gaining some kind of a greater control over its own destiny, a pro-Beijing lawmaker for the special administrative region has said. If anybody comes up with any kind of claim that goes against the Basic Law, yes, the freedom to express such views is much less today than before because of the national security bill, Hong Konger politician Michael Tien told DW s Conflict Zone.
Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow, Ivan Lam: Activists methods akin to treason
Worries over creeping authoritarianism have only grown since Beijing imposed its vague national security law in June 2020 after months of mass protest. Prominent young activists including Wong, Chow and Lam have since been jailed and others have fled abroad to avoid being targeted under the new law.
Hong Kong Poly analyses hotels’ sleep-management strategies from business and leisure perspectives
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A good night s sleep is the most important service a hotel can offer its overnight guests, according to Dr Alice Hon and Dr Clare Fung of the School of Hotel and Tourism Management (SHTM) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Analysing hotels sleep-management strategies from the perspective of both business and leisure travellers, the researchers show how hotels can best allocate their resources to optimise guests sleep quality. Such strategies may offer hotels a unique source of competitive advantage, enabling them to survive and even thrive in today s precarious market environment.