Bulletin No. 1, 2011

Students Win Business Competition for Third Year T hree Global Business Studies students Bonnie Chiu (2nd left) , Victor Hui (2nd right), Alan Yip (1st right), and Professional Accountanc y student Herman Mo k ( 1s t l e f t ) , p r o p o s e d a creative and multi-dimensional plan for the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation L imi ted ( HSBC) t ha t c a te r ed to the needs of Generation Y, with a view to increasing it s market share. The team beat 150 others to win the championship title at the Joint University Business Management Challenge 2010 held on 27 November 2010, making CUHK the champion for the third year in a row. The team recommended launching a credit card tailor-made for the generation as well as location-based SMS services, providing customized financial services, improving the existing HSBC website for the young by connecting it with social media. They also reaped the ‘Best Presentation’ and ‘Most Creative’ awards. Nursing Student Scoops Running Honours M iss Yiu Kit-ching, (Year 4, Nethersole School of Nursing), clinched the gold medal for the women’s individual event again with a new record of 18’21.90” in the Annual Cross Country Meet held on 7 November 2010 on campus. On 11 February 2011, she captured the women’s overall championship title for the Half-Marathon in the 2011 Standard Chartered Marathon with a personal record of 1:20:33. 40   Chinese University Bulletin No. 1, 2011