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The Chinese Hayek Society & Department of Economics and Finance of Hong Kong Shue Yan University jointly organised – “11th Annual Meeting of the Chinese Hayek Society” at Hong Kong Shue Yan University. Altogether, there were 50 participants and 29 papers were presented in this conference. The key topics included entrepreneurship, Hayek theories, and Internet revolution and challenges. In addition, a round-table talk was held to discuss the issues related to taxes.

The Department of Economics and Finance hosted the 11th Biennial Conference of Asian Consumer and Family Economics Association. The co-organisers include Department of Business Administration, Business, Economics and Public Policy Research Center and Sustainable Real Estate Research Center. There were 120 registered professors, post-graduate students, and practitioners came from 14 countries/regions (Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, USA, and Vietnam) participating in 21 concurrent Oral Presentation Sessions with 81 papers, 22 Poster Presentations, a Journal Editor Panel Session, and a Country Report Session. Additionally, four journals, including Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning (JFCP), International Journal of Revenue Management (IJRM), International Journal of Sustainable Real Estate and Construction Economics (IJSRECE), and Singapore Economic Review (SER) would offer opportunity for selected participants to publish their papers in the special issues. Keynote Speakers: Dr. Charles Yuji HORIOKA, Research Professor, Asian Growth Research Institute, Japan; and Dr. Euston QUAH, Professor and Head of Economics, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Also, a country report session was organised to share the key local economic issues.

Dr. GAO Chong, Department of Sociology, organised and chaired a conference panel at – “The 16th Annual conference of the Hong Kong Sociological Association”. The panel title is “Session 2C: Packaging Cultural-Religious Practices as Tourist Attractions in China: Reactions and Contestations I”.

The Department of Sociology hosted – “17th Annual Conference of the Hong Kong Sociological Association” at Hong Kong Shue Yan University. The theme of the conference – “Sociological Imagination in a Pluralist World”. Altogether 17 panels; 63 persons registered for paper presentation; finally 57 persons presented papers at the conference; 11 staff members of the Department of Sociology participated in the conference; 1 member of staff chaired a keynote speech; 4 members of staff acted as panel chairs; 6 members of staff presented papers. All 10 students of Hong Kong Shue Yan Univertisty Sociological Society attended the conference as student helpers.