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Authorities at a second Hong Kong university have cut ties with the student union, saying that it had become a “platform for political propaganda” following its involvement in recent protest movements.
“The Hong Kong University Students’ Union (HKUSU) has become increasingly politicized in recent years, utilizing the University campus as a platform for its political propaganda,” the University of Hong Kong said in a statement on Friday.
“It has repeatedly made inflammatory and potentially unlawful public statements and unfounded allegations against the University,” it said.
“The university strongly condemns HKUSU’s radical acts and remarks,” the statement said.
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Authorities at a second Hong Kong university have cut ties with the student union, saying that it had become a platform for political propaganda following its involvement in recent protest movements. The Hong Kong University Students Union (HKUSU) has become increasingly politicized in recent years, utilizing the University campus as a platform for its political propaganda, the University of Hong Kong (HKU) said in a statement on Friday. It has repeatedly made inflammatory and potentially unlawful public statements and unfounded allegations against the University, it said. The university strongly condemns HKUSU’s radical acts and remarks, the statement said.
Guitar and Table Creations Claim Top Woodcraft Resin Contest Prizes
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California and Kentucky resin artists won the top prizes in Woodcraft’s “Pour to Win” Contest.
David Ison won the Vote Award for his “Black Walnut Coffee Table,” right, and Max Shen won the Woodcraft Judges Award for his “Coastline Telecaster Guitar.”
We are very pleased with the response to Woodcraft’s ‘Pour to Win’ Contest – 530 entries. PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (PRWEB) April 29, 2021 Max Shen imagined a guitar. David Ison envisoned a coffee table. Both resin-enhanced pieces earned $250 Woodcraft Gift Cards for their makers in the Woodcraft “Pour to Win” Contest in March.
As academic freedom fades, it’s time to offer refuge
Hong Kong has long had some of the best universities in Asia, with top-notch researchers never afraid to pursue pressing, cutting-edge questions. Yet today, under the National Security Law forced on the city by Beijing, these academics are facing unprecedented challenges that have forever changed their living and working environment. What can the world do to help?
In thinking through the success of Hong Kong’s universities, there is a long list of strengths that have contributed to this success: generous salaries, reasonable teaching loads and substantial research funding. Yet if we ask what really makes Hong Kong’s universities truly unique, their defining strength is undoubtedly their robust academic freedom. A legacy of the British colonial era, this freedom was largely maintained following the city’s handover to China in 1997 under the rubric of ‘one country, two systems’.