Bulletin Number One 1985

Professor Yue-man YEUNG Dr. Pak-chung CHING degree at the University of Western Ontario and a doctorate at the University of Chicago. Professor Yeung was appointed Lecturer in Geography at the University of Singapore in 1969. He remained there until 1975 when he began almost a decade of international development work with the International Development Research Centre, Canada, based in Singapore and Ottawa. He was Associate Director of the Social Sciences Division of the Centre before joining this University. Professor Yeung's research interests lie in Asian cities, markets, the informal sector, and low-cost housing. He has published four books and numerous articles on these subjects. Dr. Pak-chung CHING Lecturer, Department of Electronics Dr. Pak-chung Ching received his BEng degree with first class honours in Electronics in 1977 and his PhD degree in 1981 from the University of Liverpool, U.K. He then worked as a research officer at the School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Bath, U.K. for one year. He was appointed Lecturer in the Department of Electronic Engineering of the Hong Kong Polytechnic in 1982, and joined the Department of Electronics of this University as Lecturer in September 1984. His current research interests are digital signal processing, speech encoding techniques, speech recognition and adaptive filtering. Personalia (From 16th November, 1984 to 15th January, 1985) I. Appointments Academic Staff Faculty of Business Administration Professor Vance F. Mitchell Visiting Professor of General Business Management & Personnel Management Faculty of Medicine Dr. Robert L. Brearley Senior Lecturer i n Clinical Oncology Mr. Chan Kai-ming, Cavor Senior Lecturer in Orthopaedic & Traumatic Surgery Dr. Lai Kar-neng Senior Lecturer in Medicine Dr. Valerie J. Betham Lecturer in Anaesthesia Dr. Cheng Ngok Lecturer in Orthopaedic & Traumatic Surgery Dr. Hilary A. Noble Lecturer in Anaesthesia PERSONALIA 29