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科大环球商业管理及营运管理学四年级学生黄子容，曾参加义工活动远赴印度义务照顾无家可归的妇孺，亲眼目睹民众在饱受干旱困扰的赤贫乡村挣扎求存让她深感震撼和痛心，当日的画面至今仍然历历在目。子容在台湾长大，自幼过着舒适的城市生活，在印度的难忘经历，除了使她惊觉幸福绝非必然，更在其内心深处播下了热心助人的种子。 她说：「我们有幸活在安全舒适的环境，难以想像还有不少人过着朝不保夕，颠沛流离的日子只有身处当地，才可真切感受两者差异之大;正正是因为有了这种感悟，才让我开始深思如何帮助不幸的一群，以及自己应该承担什么样的社会责任」。 因此，当她去年得知总部设于瑞士日内瓦的红十字会国际委员会（红十字会）开办一年制实习计划，便即毅然申请。「我告诉自己，若需作出使生命变得不一样的勇敢抉择，必须当机立断，不能白白错过机会！」说起当日情景，她眼中仍然流露一丝兴奋。 子容参与的实习计划，是红十字会与「科大侍学行公民伙伴实习计划」事前经历无数磋商和交流而得出的成果，获得科大全力支持。多年来，侍学行计划曾伙拍不同志愿组织举办多项实习活动，全部均以培养学生多方面才能为目标。 红十字国际委员会实习计划向来竞争激烈，而根据惯例，欧洲的研究生更会占去当中大部分名额。然而，子容参与的这一轮计划，是专门为科大学生而设的。 申请人的学业成绩或学术背景并非评选标准。上述实习计划的评审员反而更着重入选者的「热诚」是否与红十字会一致，而衡量「热诚」的唯一法则，就是申请人过往参与人道救援相关工作的经历。另外，由于实习时需要接触具有不同文化背景的人士，申请者是否开明和熟悉公共事务，也是重要的评审准则。 子容最终获分派到红十字会的资源动员部工作，主力负责因应捐款人关心的议题撰写筹款建议书，以及联系各国政府代表。 身为商学院学生，子容成功运用在大学习得的经济及财务知识，帮助红十字会开展关于亚洲及新兴国家的研究。举例说，她曾引述印尼的经济指数，讲解为何该国有机会成为红十字会的合作伙伴。 从学生摇身一变为专业人士，子容不讳言适应需时。在红十字工作的第一天，她随上司会见一位欧洲代表，尽管自己能操流利英语和法语，却未能完全掌握会议上的对话内容。

The global race for fifth generation supremacy is under way, with countries competing to be the first to provide 5G mobile broadband services. The ultra-fast network will prompt inventions, of which today we cannot even dream. Countries around the world have devoted much resources to developing, manufacturing and deploying the new equipment necessary for 5G transmissions. China, for instance, has recently become highly influential in the field with its ability to develop infrastructure for 5G systems worldwide. In Asia, Hong Kong has been blamed for being slow to launch the new service in comparison with the mainland, South Korea and Japan. Actually, a delay is not necessarily a bad thing, as it allows Hong Kong to have a longer testing period to ensure a more reliable and decent 5G mobile service. Hong Kong's privately-owned telecom market is very competitive and cautious.

香港科技大学（科大）水底机械人大赛小队於2019年MATE国际水底机械人大赛勇夺全场总冠军及工程演说冠军。这是队伍继2017年后，再次於是次比赛中获得全场总冠军，亦是目前唯一一支在比赛举办18年来获得这个最高荣誉的亚洲队伍。

Humans are creatures who often judge whether a dish is attractive or a stranger is friendly simply by their own eyes. But our sense of smell is just as important. We all may have the experience of eating with a stuffy nose and found a dish to be tasteless or using our nose to check whether it has gone bad. Moreover, people tend to keep their distance from a person with an unpleasant odor, while special odors like gas can alert us to dangers of a leak. As the old Chinese adage goes, "My shack is better than an emperor's bed." What makes our own shack better? Our smell, together with the smell of our family members, and pets as well if any, makes it unique and reassuring. To understand how smell impacts people, researchers at the University of British Columbia, Canada, invited 96 couples for a study last year.

Our fishery gave birth to a love of seafood, but it is also contributing to the global fish stocks decline. We degraded it through overfishing, pollution and reclamation before building a fleet to ravage fisheries in other places. Many cities have actually done the same. Ironically, calls to save global fish stocks come from cities that sacrificed their own fisheries. Yet, Hong Kong also shows the way to a solution. It retains a resilient population of people who fish, those with the expertise and toughness to build a sustainable fishery, that is, such as those where catch volume and fishing practices allow for continual regeneration of stock, while enabling fishers to achieve a decent standard of living. People in the industry will overfish and abuse the ecosystem to provide more income if they can't afford a living. But our highly adaptable fishermen can demonstrate a global model for sustainable fishery.

香港科技大学机械人竞赛团队—水底机械人小队在第14届MATE国际水底机械人大赛香港区赛成功卫冕，蝉联九届冠军。该支队伍将代表香港，参加在6月20至22日於美国田纳西州金斯波特水上运动中心举行的国际赛。

香港科技大学环境研究所今日推出崭新的流动应用程序 PRAISE-HK，旨在减少空气污染对用户的个人健康威胁。PRAISE-HK 全名是「个人化实时空气污染风险信息系统 」(英文：Personalized Real-time Air-quality Informatics System for Exposure – Hong Kong)，将有助香港成为世界级的智慧健康城市。PRAISE-HK 是汇丰150周年慈善计划自2016年11月起资助，为期五年的项目，流动应用程序和系统分三个阶段推进：(1)    第一阶段 - 今日发表的应用程序以高分辨率（达2米至20米）的街道级别地图提供室外空气质素信息；(2)    第二阶段 - 全面整合空气污染对个人健康威胁的信息，追踪个人由室内至室外（包括于交通工具内）所接触空气污染水平；(3)    第三阶段 - 完成互动应用程序及系统，根据个人对空气污染的反应提供健康预测警报。 什么是PRAISE-HK？PRAISE-HK是一款智能城市应用程序，提供最先进的街道级别实时空气质素和健康风险信息和48小时空气质素预报。PRAISE-HK 显示「空气质素健康指数」（AQHI）以及由四种空气污染物：二氧化氮（NO2）、臭氧（O3）、悬浮粒子（PM10 和PM2.5)）和二氧化硫（SO2） 所导致入院的个别健康风险增幅总和 (%AR)。用户可在 PRAISE-HK 应用程序获取上述的实用信息，然后采取相应措施，减少短期曝露于空气污染物的风险，对空气污染物敏感的人士会大大受益于此程序。PRAISE-HK应用程序是由香港科技大学环境研究所开发的全新系统，项目由跨学科专家领导，其高精准度可归功于以下重要技术： 

Unmanned aircraft systems started to gain attention in US military operations more than a decade ago, but nowadays, people enjoy flying drones for photography and videography purposes. Drones are also gaining widespread acceptance for goods delivery, surveying and scientific research. I have two recreational drones, so I was eager to examine the three-month drone regulation proposals put out by the Civil Aviation Department in late 2017. There are six recommendations for the UAS regulatory regime: a registration system; risk-based classification of operations; training and assessment requirements; drone maps; insurance requirements; and indoor operations. The recommendations are sound, but a number of salient issues were omitted. The first is the absence of regulations governing drone manufacturers.