Word: lingnan
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...motion demanding that the Broadcasting Authority withdraw its earlier ruling. "Non-heterosexuals rarely appear in the media, and when they do, they are portrayed as effeminate, flamboyant, sissies, perverts or AIDS carriers," said Dr. Ching Yau, an associate professor who teaches courses on media and gender studies at Lingnan University...
...tone of self-criticism: last month in Macau, Tung and most of his cabinet stood uncomfortably on a stage as Chinese President Hu Jintao instructed the administration to "examine its inadequacies, and continue to raise its competence." Says Dr. Li Pang-kwong, a political scientist at the city's Lingnan University: "Tung wants to limit the scope of contention for the next two years...
...want to expand their horizons further. So she invites speakers from the provincial capital and even Beijing to give lectures about the world beyond Tuonan township. "Only if we liberate our minds can we liberate the country," says Li. Shi Meirong, 52, who lives in the hill village of Lingnan, would like to believe her, but Shi is still on the very first rung of economic development. "Only when you have money can you be master of your fate," she says. "When you're just struggling to get by, it's hard to have bigger visions...
Edward K.Y. Chen, president of Lingnan College in Hong Kong and a member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong, professed a reserved optimism about the island's future as he delivered an address on "The Hong Kong Economy Under Chinese Sovereignty: The Issues and Non-Issues...
...four years Henry Dunn has been sending books to needy libraries abroad. He began it after hearing a Chinese coed describe the plight of her country's universities. Dunn straightway started collecting 7,000 volumes for Lingnan University in Canton, whose library had been burned by the Japanese...