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TKU FOUNDER URGES TO POSITIVELY PROMOTE EXTENSION EDUCATION AND TAP POST-RETIRED EDUCATION

Tamkang University (TKU) Founder Dr. Clement C. P. Chang said last Wednesday that the extension education has become the most important link to the mass education of the “Fox Educational Century”. We should pay attention to tap the post-retired educational market, a market being eagerly developed, Chang said.

MISCELLANEOUS WORK OF LANYANG CAMPUS CONSTRUCTION HAS BEEN SMOOTHLY UNDERWAY

Dr. Clement C. P. Chang, TKU Founder and concurrently Chairperson of the Organizing Committee for Lanyang Campus, said that the miscellaneous construction work of Lanyang Campus has been smoothly carried out. The construction will be completed at the end of 2003, Chang said.

TKU PRESIDENT LEADS AN 11-MEMBER EDUCATIONAL DELEGATION TO VISIT MALAYSIA

An 11-member Educational Delegation led by Tamkang University (TKU) President Dr. Chang Horng-jinh left Taipei for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Dec. 13 for a five-day visit.

MASS MEDIA NEWS COVERAGE SHOULD BE VERSATILE; TKU SPONSORED SEMINAR ON INT’L MASS MEDIA

Hsiang Kuo-ning, President of Min Sheng Pao, has called on local mass media to put aside the ideological difference and the breaking of news coverage to hold the whole world in view and to head for the versatilities of news coverage in face of the impact of globalization and regionalization.

CHAIRPERSON, KYUNGNAM UNIV., KOREA VISITS TKU; TOKAI UNIV. MISSION TO VISIT TKU

Chairperson of Board of Trustees Cho Keun-ok, Kyungnam University (KU), South Korea, one of the sister universities of Tamkang University (TKU) visited TKU on Dec. 9, 2002 to exchange views with Dr. Feng Chao-kang, Vice President for Academic Affairs, TKU, on how to strengthen academic and student exchanges between the two universities.

LIN CHOW-MIN WINS THE WORLD MOST YOUNG ARCHITECT DESIGN AWARD; SHEU SHIANN-TSONG, THE ASIAN MOST OUT

Lin Chow-min, a graduate of Department of Architecture and concurrently lecturer at Department of Architecture and Building Technology, Tamkang University (TKU) won the “World Most Young Architect Design Award” conferred by AR Magazine of England.

THE ISSUES OF REBAR AND TWO OTHER BRIDGES HAVE TEMPORARILY BEEN RESOLVED AFTER ADOPTING THEM

LIN SZ-YI WINS FIRST PLACE AT THE 2002 NATIONAL COLLEGIATE JAPANESE SPEECH CONTEST

Lin Sz-yi, senior C, Department of Japanese, Tamkang University (TKU) defeated representatives from 26 universities and colleges around the nation to win the first place of the 2002 National Collegiate Japanese Speech Contest jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Education (MOE) and Japan’s Interchange Association (JIA) on Dec. 6, 2002.

EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE SEMESTER PERFORMANCE DRAWS SPECTATORS TO SCRAMBLE FOR ADMISSION

The Experimental Theatre will hold four-day public performances at L209 at 7:10 pm from Dec. 17 to Dec. 20. Three dramas—when Mr. Leonida encounters a counterrevolutionary, the protagonist coming on stage, and the guilty of a lady heart--will be performed during the four-day session.

FOREIGN STUDENTS’ ARTISTIC TALENT CONTEST IS VERY WONDERFUL

Three Indonesian students and an Italian student won first place on the foreign students artistic talent contest sponsored by the Public Services Center, TKU. They were Jonny Bong, Suwandi Bong, Kwet Kauw Tanudjaja and Diego Pirissinotto. They imitated TV show “Clever and Nimble Jade”.