Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 2005

Su nHung Kai Proper t ies Nobel Laureate s Distinguishe d Lectures J o i n t l y o r g a n i z e d by The Chines e University and Sun H u n g Kai Properties (SHKP), the Sun H u n g K a i P r o p e r t i e s No b e l Laureates Distinguished L e c t u r e s we re h e ld in June and D e c e m b e r 2005. On 3rd June, s i x d i s t i n g u i s h e d economists, including three Nobe l laureates, shared their i n s i g ht w i t h an audience o f over a t h o u s a nd i n Hong Kong on the topic of 'Emergence of Ch i n a i n the Wo r l d E c o n omy' a t the Kow l o on Shangri-la. The speakers were No b el laureates i n economic sciences Prof. E d w a rd C. Prescott (2004), Prof. Robert A . Mu n d e ll (1999), and Prof. Sir James A . M i r r l e e s (1996), as w e l l as world-class economists Prof. F. Alesina and Prof. Robert J. Barro f r om Ha r v a r d University, and Prof. E dmu n d S. Phelps f r om Columbia University. Government economist M r. Kw o k Kw ok Chuen, an d Dr. Victor Fung, chairman of the L i Fung Group, wer e the other panelists. The Hon . Hen ry Tang, Ac t i n g Chief Executive of the HKSAR, Dr. Ra ymond K w o k , v i c e - c h a i r man an d ma n a g i n g director of SHKP, and Prof. Lawrence J. Lau, vice-chancellor of the Un i v e r s i t y , presided at the opening ceremony. The lectures were coordinated by the new l y established Institute o f Economics of The Chinese University. Prof. Robert A. Mundell Prof. Sir James A. Mirrlees Prof. Edmund S. Phelps Prof. Alberto F. Alesina Prof. Robert J. Barro Prof. Edward C. Prescott Dr. Richard J. Roberts, 1993 Nobel Laureate in physiology or medicine 1993, hosted the lecture on ‘Friends and Foes — the Unseen Bugs Wh o Share Our Planet' on 9th December at the lecture theatre of Shaw College. D r . R i c h a rd J. Roberts is an eminent molecular biologist who is currently research d i r e c t or a t the N e w En g l a n d B i o l a bs i n Massachusetts, USA. His current research is in bioinformatics and the discovery and mechanism of restriction-modification systems from bacteria. News in Brief 5 7