Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 2006

News in Brief 63 • CUHK teams notched up a superb victory in the 10th Jackie Chan Challenge Cup held in October 2006. Both the CUHK women’s table tennis and volleyball teams defeated their counterparts to win the championship. The CUHK women’s basketball team was the 2nd runner up. • The 2006 University Sports Federation, Hong Kong Cross Country Competition was held on 5 November 2006 on CUHK campus. The women’s team was the champion and the men’s team came fourth. The overall champion was also CUHK. Miss Mak Sau Ling, Tania (PSY 2) from the women’s team was the individual champion. • Chung Chi College student Ms. Yu Chui-yee (Year 2, Department of Geography and Resource Management) won gold in the epee events (team and individual), and gold (team) and bronze (individual) in the foil events, at the IWAS Wheelchair Fencing World Championships 2006, held from 29 September to 7 October, in Torino, Italy. She was also named ‘Best Female Fencer’. Her performance qualifies her for the 2008 Beijing Paralympics. Ms. Yu then went on to win a silver medal in the women’s foil event (team) at the Seventh National Games for Disabled Persons held in Yunnan Province, China. CUHK Wins Putonghua Debate The Putonghua debate team of CUHK captured its first championship in the seventh Intervarsity Putonghua Debate Competition held on 11 November 2006. Tian Zi, vice-captain of the team, was named ‘Best Debater’. The Intervarsity Putonghua Debate Competition 2006, a highlight of Hong Kong’s Putonghua Festival, was organized by RTHK Putonghua Channel and the StandingCommittee onLanguage Education and Research. In the past six years, CUHK had come second three times and third once. Champion volleyball team from CUHK (From left 2) Tian Zi, Yang Yang, Liu Ran and Yang Fan receiving the trophy from the officiating guests Laurels for Music Graduates • The Broadway musical Miss Saigon selected Miss Hui Pui-shan as its first Chinese leading actress. The 26-year- old Miss Hui graduated from the Music Department, before going to New York University for her Master’s (Vocal) degree two years ago. Hui Pui-shan is the first Chinese woman to have been given the role of Miss Saigon. • Ng Wah Hei, 2005 M.Mus. graduate of the Department of Music has won the first prize of the Chamber Music Composition Competition with his flute cello and piano trio Sleepless City in February 2006. • Ms. LamCheuk Bun, an alumna (2006) of the Department of Music was awarded the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund Scholarship 2006–07. She will pursue a Master of Music degree in Organ Performance at the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, USA.