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HONG KONG – On a recent, rainy weekday, the owner of a jade shop in Causeway Bay sat alone in her store.
HONG KONG – On a recent, rainy weekday, the owner of a jade shop in Causeway Bay sat alone in her store. While business was brisk at Bowrington Road wet market next door, few shoppers gave a second glance to the jewellery in her shop window on Tin Lok Lane.
“It has been quiet these two months. There are fewer mainland tourists visiting,” the woman says. “The tourists buy more than locals. Businesses need them. We pay the government taxes and rates. If the government stops tourists from coming, is it going to pay us?”
Principal investigator: Professor Woo Chi-keung, Department of Asian and Policy Studies
Co-investigators: Dr Henry So Chi-fuk, Lecturer, Department of Mathematics and Information Technology; external partners Dr Alice Shiu and Dr Liu Yun
2. The MAndarin Spoken Word-Picture IDentification Test in Noise – Adaptive (MAPID-A)
Principal investigator: Dr Kevin Yuen Chi-pun, Associate Professor, Department of Special Education and Counselling
3. VocabGO – An Augmented Reality English Vocabulary Learning App
Principal investigator: Dr Song Yanjie, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Information Technology
Co-investigators: Dr Lai Yiu-chi, Associate Professor; Dr Alpha Ling Man-ho, Associate Professor; Mr Wu Kaiyi, Research Assistant, Department of Mathematics and Information Technology; external partners Dr Walter Ng Wing-shui and Dr Hiroaki Ogata