Bulletin Spring‧Summer 1999

research in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, to examine issues related to discrepancies in accounting standards, and to suggest solutions. The inaugural ceremony of the Dragon League was held on 6th November 1998. It was followed by a research forum on the role of financial accounting and reporting. All Linked up by Territory-wide Cyber Campus Hong Kong Cyber Campus, an Internet campus linking up universities, secondary and primary schools, and kindergartens in Hong Kong, was launched on 30th October 1998. With a total funding of HK$18.9 m i l l i o n from the University Grants Committee (UGC) and the Quality Education Fund, the project is the joint effort of eight local tertiary institutions to promote information technology education in Hong Kong and to enhance links between academic institutions. Officiating at the launching ceremony were Mr. Joseph Wong, Secretary for Education and Manpower, Mrs. Helen Yu, then Director of Education, Mr. Irving Koo Yee-yin, chairman of the Quality Education Fund Steering Committee, and Mr. Nigel J. French, Secretary- General of the UGC. Prof. Wong Po-choi (left) and Mr. Joseph Wong (right) CUHK Launches Digital Library Initiative An agreement was signed by CUHK, the South China University of Technology in Guangzhou, the Academia Sinica in Taiwan, and Carnegie Mellon University in the United States on 19th March 1999 to set up high speed experimentation of digital library applications. The four institutions wil l also pool efforts in enhancing Digital Library research and application development. They will develop content and digital library applications for the testbed and place valuable contents on the network. They will also assist one another by caching valuable multimedia content locally . An important feature is a cross-lingua l platform for mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and USA. Pro-Vice-Chancellor Prof. Ambrose King (right) presenting souvenir to Mr. K.C. Kwong, Secretary for Information Technology and Broadcasting of the HKSAR, at the signing ceremony. Website on Environmental Impact Assessment The University has recently become the host of a new bilingual website called EIA Gateway, Prof. Lam Kin Che (standing), director of the Centre for Environmental Studies, and Ms. Rita Hamn, chief executive of IAIA, demonstrating the use of the EIA Gateway. News in Brief 59