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Cool a capella : a session with the Jabberwocks The
Jabberwocks were in town last week to sing for young people
and friends of the Federation. This vocal ensemble from Brown
University goes back over 50 years and has made lasting impressions
on audiences back in the US and here in Hong Kong. The 17-strong
group held a workshop with the Federation's youth choir,
sang for schools and at a musical charity dinner at the Hong
Kong Country Club. We went to a session to find out more.….Click
here to read more....
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Facts
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Optimists
in Wanchai
50%
of HK teens consider ending it all
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Federation
News
Mr
Henry Poon Chun-kau, former head of St Paul's Co-educational
Secondary School, has
been appointed as Principal of the new HKFYG
Lee Shau Kee College. This is the Federation's
first Direct Subsidy Scheme secondary school in Tin Shui
Wai which will be
accepting its first intake of Secondary One students in
September 2006. www.u21.org.hk/main/lee_shau_kee |
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in Harmony and Peace is
a new youth exchange programme co-organized by the Federation,
the
All-China Youth Federation and the Shanghai Youth Federation
with participation from in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau
and Shanghai. A youth forum in Shanghai on 16 April 2006
will be followed by the raising of a dragon on the bund
and a series of cultural and educational visits. A call
for nominees will be issued soon. |
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Standard Chartered Hong Kong English Public Speaking
Contest 2006,
organized by the Federation and The English Speaking
Union (Hong Kong), is in its
third year, with a new name to reflect our sponsors. Applications
from all students in full time education in Hong Kong
are welcome. Deadline: 6 p.m. Friday 10
February Download Application
from, Program Leaflet |
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Publications
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The 16th issue of the Journal of Youth Studies
is just out. Its key focus is a collection of articles
on the subject of casual drug abuse and its prevention.
The focus of the next issue will be the poverty cycle.
Copies of the Journal, which has a circulation of approximately
1300, may be ordered from HKFYG's Youth Research Centre,
Unit 6-7, G/F, The Center, 99, Queen's Road Central, Hong
Kong, tel: 2575 6666, email: yr@hkfyg.org.hk |
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