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Language Matters: Lisa Lim Asks if the Word "Kiasu" Applies to You?
6 October 2016 (Thursday) – online Dr Lisa Lim, Associate Professor in the School of English, discusses how the Hokkien Chinese slang expression kiasu, meaning being afraid to lose out, slipped into Singapore English and went round the world in her fortnightly Post Magazine column: Language M...
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HKU Team First Runners Up in Televised Cultural Debate Competition
An HKU team captained by Arts undergraduate student Mr Chong Shing Hei has won the Overall First Runner-up award in the cultural debate competition, “The World Listens to Me”. The team, which also includes Mr Huang Guanyu and Mr Lim Kam Ho, both undergraduate students from the Facu...
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HKU Research Indicates Children Learn Quantifiers in the Same Order Across Languages We can all imagine how children learn to count: They start with 'one' and proceed in order of increasing cardinality ("one, two, three…"). But what about o...
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Mr Larry Keith to Deliver Inaugural Behind the Scenes Lecture
The HKU Department of Fine Arts has invited Mr Larry Keith, Director of Collections (interim) at the National Gallery in London, to deliver the inaugural lecture in a new series of talks aimed at increasing public awareness of how art needs to be protected, maintained and made accessible for the fut...
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The University of Hong Kong has risen 14 places to 30th in the world in Arts and Humanities in the Times Higher Education World University Subject Rankings 2016-2017, announced on September 28, 2016, the largest move upward of any Faculty at HKU. HKU is one of only four Asian universities that made ...