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Color
your own Robots
Children
can take part in the Robot- Painting Competition, co-organized
by 20th Century Fox and the Federation with full support
from DoubleA and media support from MingPao. Two hundred
free tickets for the film Robots have also been donated
to us by 20th Century Fox...click
here to read more...
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HKFYG Summer Tribal Art Camp
The Federation
and the Hong Kong Youth Arts Festival are
co-organizing a creative 2-day HKFYG Summer Tribal Art
Camp
in August. 80 students from Primary 6 to Secondary 3 are
expected to join in…click
here to read...
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Symposium
for HKCEE students
The
Federation and the Vocational Training Council are
co-organizing a Symposium for this year's HKCEE students
entitled 「知．專．升學路」研討會暨放榜工作坊 at
the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre on 27 July
2005... click
here to read more...
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Summer Youth Programme: thanks to donors
Many
thanks to Sino United Publishing Holdings and Four
Seas Mercantile Holdings Limited for generously
offering gifts and refreshments at the Kick-off for the Summer
Youth Programme on 3 July...click
to read more…
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| News
and Views Youth Business Hong Kong — Another
Choice．Another Opportunity
According to Youth Business International (YBI ),
at least 300 million young people aged 18-30 around the world
are unemployed
or
underemployed.
In
the UK the Prince's Trust mobilized the business community
to help start-ups, then YBI adopted
this model with over 70,000 young people in over 26 countries
- many from disadvantaged backgrounds. Building on
the YBI model, the Federation has initiated Youth
Business Hong Kong (YBHK) which will provide entrepreneurship training,
personal coaching, and financial assistance. |
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YBHK will
give business mentoring for
young people with viable business ideas but without backing. We
believe that this support will enhance self-esteem, employability
and economic independence of young people with the vision and talent
to be entrepreneurs. Hong Kong was ranked 32nd out of 35 economies
in an entrepreneurism survey this year. The same survey ranked
Shenzen 10th, just ahead of the US. What is it that makes a start-up
business into a runaway success? Increased diversity and competitiveness
is the answer. This week's Lead Story is an account of one such
dream come true.
"I would
like to help young people in Hong Kong who work hard and have
ideas
for new ventures. Sometimes all they need is the right kind of
encouragement and financial support. I am convinced that Youth
Business Hong Kong will see the younger generation maintaining
our enviable tradition of successful entrepreneurship."
Mr Michael
Yip
Chairman, Ocean Grand Holdings Limited
| What's
happening |
Award
Presentation : Hong Kong Student Science Project
Competition
| Saturday
9 July 2005, 11:30
am at Hong
Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre |
| Officiating
Guest: |
Mr.
John Tsang Chun-wah, JP, Secretary for Commerce, |
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Industry & Technology |
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www.hksspc.gov.hk |
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Launching
: Youth Business Hong Kong
| Tuesday
12 July 2005, 3.00pm at Hong Kong Convention and
Exhibition Centre |
| Guest
of Honour : The
Hon. Henry Tang, GBS JP, Financial Secretary, HKSAR |
| Special
Guests: |
Ms
Gu Li-ping, Youth
Business China |
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Mr
Andrew Fiddaman, Youth
Business International |
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www.u21.org.hk/ybhk
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Youth
Career Expo
| Wednesday-Thursday
13-14 July 2005
at Plaza Hollywood Diamond Hill |
| Guests
of Honour: |
The
Hon. Jeffrey Lam, SBS, JP, |
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Member,
Legislative Council, HKSAR |
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Mr
Tsang Kin Woo, JP |
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Assistant
Commissioner, (Employment Services), |
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Labour
Department, HKSAR |
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www.yen.org.hk/expo/detail.htm |
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Lead
Story
Entrepreneurial passion and hard work
Entrepreneurship requires innovative thinking and the determination
and passion to follow through with an idea. We talked to Steve
Ng, winner of an award from LiveWIRE, an entrepreneurship scheme
which preceded Youth Business Hong Kong. Steve founded Toy
East International, a very successful online business...Click
here to read about it |
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Facts & Figures
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| Hong
Kong fathers: cold, distant and strict
Recent surveys show that many Hong Kong parents, especially fathers, do not rate
too well according to their offspring. There are also plenty of arguments at
home...Click
to read more...
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War
or poverty
Defence budgets
far outstrip aid budgets and the problem of poverty, which could
be alleviated by aid, is being addressed by world leaders this
week at the G8 summit. Poverty is ubiquitous and the income
gap within our own society is one of the highest in East Asia...Click
to learn more… |
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Optimism
for job seekers
A recent job
fair boosted signs of an economic up-turn in Hong Kong although
government statistics show only a slight upward trend...Click
to learn more… |
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