Bulletin Spring‧Summer 1994

A donation of HK$ 18 million was recently received from Dr. William M.W. Mong to set up a Shun Hing Research and Development Fund at the University . The donation was made through the Shun Hing Education and Charity Fund Ltd. to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Shun Hing group. One sixth of the amount has been earmarked for developing an open system for Chinese computing. Previous donations by Dr. Mong have helped launch scholarship funds, establish the Mong Kwok Ping Computer Communication Laboratory, and finance the United Nations Fellows Training Programme. To give permanent recognition to his contributions, the University will name a new science building after Dr. Mong. The building is to be constructed on the central campus to the northeast of the Choh-Ming Li Basic Medical Sciences Building. On completion in 1996 it w i ll accommodate the departments of pharmacy and biochemistry, and provide well-equipped lecture halls, classrooms and function rooms. New Research Services Centre Funded by Shanghaiese Benefactors The foundation stone of the Shanghai Fraternity Association Research Services Centre was officially laid on CUHK campus on 14th March 1994. Prof. Charles K. Kao, the vice-chancellor, Mr. C.W. Wong, chairman of the Shanghai Fraternity Association (HK) Ltd., Mr. Zhang Junsheng, deputy director of Xinhua News Agency (HK) Branch, and Mr. Weng Xinqiao, head of the Agency's Department of Culture and Education, officiated at the ceremony. The centre will be built on the eastern campus and contain five storeys with a gross floor area of 4,600 square metres. Upon its completion in 1995, the new building will house the Technical Services Unit, operating theatre suites, animal rooms, and laboratories for histology, microbiolog y and radioisotope. The vice-chancellor thanked the Shanghai Fraternity Association (HK) Ltd. for its staunch support to the University over the years, and for the generous donation of HK$13,500,000 towards the construction cost of the new centre. The building will provide the much needed facilities for the University's vigorous research programmes. A New Student Hostel o n Chung Ch i Campus A new student hostel, the Lee Shu-Pui Hall, was completed on the Chung Chi campus. Located on Progress Road, the eight-storey building provides 300 hostel places for Chung Chi students. It was funded partly by a generous donation ofHK$7.5 million from Sir Quo-wei Lee, chairman of the University Council, and has been named in News in Brief 35