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‘Chinese New Year Dinner of the NHKS’

When: Friday 3 February 2012

Where: Sea Palace Restaurant, Oosterdokskade, Amsterdam

Time: from 17:30 hrs.

Kung Hei Fat Choy!!!    

With this traditional wish we will greet you when we meet to celebrate the start of the Lunar New Year, the Year of the Dragon, during our Chinese New Year Dinner on Friday 3rd of February 2012. This year, we have invited the Dragons Businessclub as our partner.

The dinner will once again be held at the Chinese Restaurant “Sea Palace”, Oosterdokskade 8, 1011 AE Amsterdam. 

Time: 18:30 hrs Cocktails

19:00 hrs Dinner

Costs: Individual € 55 per person* (non members €75)

Corporate table € 888 per table of 10 guests*

*Wine/beer, tea and other soft drinks included.

Since 2006, the NHKS raises money during the CNY-dinner for a charity in the Netherlands or Hong Kong. This year, we hope to raise money to support the foundation “Chinese Education in The Netherlands”. See below for more information about this foundation.

Individual seats are available at € 55. (non members €75) This amount is inclusive of 1 lucky draw ticket. A corporate table can be booked at € 888. The package includes a table for 10 guests (all-inclusive) and 20 tickets for the Lucky Draw (2 tickets per person). Additionally, the logo or name of the company sponsoring the table will be printed on the menu, correspondence and on the NHKS website (www.nhks.nl). Additional Lucky Draw tickets can be purchased during the dinner at € 5 each.  

Request: it would be much appreciated if you can donate one or more prizes for the Lucky Draw. Sponsors will be mentioned by name when the prizes are drawn and the sponsor logos and names will be printed on the menu. Additionally, the names and logos of sponsors will be shown on the website of the NHKS). Please use the attached form to submit your prize/donation.

The following companies/persons are sponsors of this year's Chinese New Year Dinner:

• ANT Sinova
• Cathay Travel
• Cathay Pacific Airways
• ECT
• Golden River Restaurant
• the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce in the Netherlands
• the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, Brussels
• Merison, the art of living
• Oriental City
• the Port of Amsterdam
• Sea Palace Amsterdam
• Vanderven & Vanderven

  

 

  

    

    

Please register for the dinner as soon as possible. If you yourself are unable to attend, please inform colleagues who may be interested so that they can join. 

The proceeds of the CNY dinner will be donated to:

Foundation Chinese Education in the Netherlands (SCON)

General information:

The Foundation Chinese Education in the Netherlands was founded in 2001 and serves as the umbrella organisation for more than 40 Chinese schools in the Netherlands. The Foundation is a dynamic organisation that aims to improve Chinese education to Dutch Chinese children.

At the moment there are 42 Chinese schools, 260 Chinese language teachers and around 6000 pupils in the Netherlands.

The aims of the Foundation are::

• Promoting Chinese language education in the Netherlands; 

• Teaching Chinese culture to pupils; 

• Maintaining contacts between the Netherlands and China, especially in the fields of culture and education. 

 

SCON has build up a expertise in the area of Chinese language education in the Netherlands’ environment. The members of the board are all Chinese teachers and volunteers who believe in the importance of Chinese language education in addition to Dutch schooling. This will offer Chinese Dutch children an identity and Chinese language skills that will benefit them throughout their lives. This is why SCON is working closely with the Chinese schools, professional organisations and authorities in the Netherlands and China towards achieving its goals.

Mission – Vision – Drive: 

- Improving Chinese language education in the Netherlands and by doing so increasing the chances of development of the Chinese Dutch children;;

- Stimulating the creativity and involvement of the pupils in the Chinese arts&culture education on offer;

- Builsding up and reinforcing the seld confidence of teachers of the Chinese language and the pupils through various trainings and activities;

- Promoting the participation of Chinese language teachers, pupils and parents in the Dutch society by offering various trainings and seminars.

 

Activities: 

Over the years the Foundation has built up experience and a network in the specialised field of Chinese language and culture education; both inside as well as outside the Chinese schools in the Netherlands. Concerning Chinese language education for children and adults, the Foundation has been strongly involved in: 

• The continuous improvement of the quality of Chinese language education. 

• The development of educational materials.

• The training of teachers

• The organisation of various activities (competitions, school camp; workshops)

The following activities are offered by the Foundation:

1. Annual seminars in China and or in the Netherlands for heads of schools and teachers;

2. Sending out information regarding the development of language education (via e-mail to all teachers) 

3. Annual production and distribution of Chinese language and culture materials for and to all Chinese schools in the Netherlands.

4. Organisation of a national declamation competition in the Chinese language, every two years.  

5. Annual organisation of Chinese Culture Camps in China and/or the Netherlands for Chinese Dutch children.

6. Annual organisation of training for Chinese language teachers in the Netherlands and in China. For example: in Nov.2011 SCON organised a training for 70 Chinese language teachers from all over the Netherlands in cooperation with the Confucius Institute of the University of  Leiden.

7. Organisation of meetings with parents regarding upbringing..

Contact:

Stichting Chinees Onderwijs in Nederland

Dhr. W.C. Ding

Oltmansstraat 20

3842 ZX Harderwijk

E-mail: info@chineesonderwijs.nl

Fax: 0341-420221

Donations:

Rabo Bank   387.135.308, t.n.v. Stichting Chinees Onderwijs in Nederland

Website:http://www.chineesonderwijs.nl

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‘Chinese New Year Reception of the HKETO and HKTDC’

When: Thursday 9 February 2012

Where: Nieuwe of Litteraire Sociëteit De Witte, Plein, The Hague

Time: from 17:00 hrs.

The Chinese New Year Reception of the HKETO and HKTDC is supported by the NHKS, the HK Chamber of Commerce in the Netherlands and Cathay PAcific Airways. This year, a magician from Hong Kong will entertain the guests at this popular reception. 

If you wish to register, send an email to secretariat@nhks.nl

Official invitations will be sent out shortly. 

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Tutuarima Elected Secretary Federation of HK Associations

NHKS Chairman Wijnand Tutuarima has been elected Honorary Secretary of the Federation of Hong Kong Business Association Worldwide at the Hong Kong Forum, today, 2 December.

Georges Legros, vice Chairman of the Belgium Hong Kong Society, was elected Chairman of the Federation.

The Federation of Hong Kong Business Association Worldwide was formed by Hong Kong associations in November 2000. It is a unique network of 33 Hong Kong Business Associations in 24 countries with more than 10,000 individual business executives and professionals as member associates. The Federation aims to achieve synergy among the global network of Hong Kong Business Associations. It provides an effective base for member associations to network and exchange information, thereby, generating business opportunities. The NHKS is a founding member of the Federation.

Members of the HK associations from around the world meet once a year in Hong Kong at the Hong Kong Forum, the annual flagship event of the Federation of Hong Kong Business Associations Worldwide.

Hong Kong, 2 December 2010

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Hong Kong University Offers Best MBA Programme in the World

A master of business administration course organised jointly with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has topped an international table of business schools for the second year in a row.

The rankings take into account factors such as student diversity, research capability and the average annual salary achieved by graduates within three years.



HKUST's programme came top among the 100 schools in the last factor. Its graduates earn an average of US$392,076 a year within three years.

Graduates enjoy a 69 per cent pay rise on their pre-EMBA salaries.

Chinese University jumped from 19th place last year to 10th this year.

The Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA Programme, jointly offered by the university and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Chicago, was named No1 in the latest rankings of the world's top 100 executive MBA programmes by the Financial Times. The course, which joined the rankings in 2003, was also No1 last year and in 2007.

It came higher than the prestigious London Business School, whose joint executive MBA with Columbia University, New York, was No2 this year.

The HKUST programme came second in three areas - work experience of students, how international the student body is and the extent to which graduates felt they achieved their study aims. Programme head Judy Au Man-yee said one of the strengths of the programme was the plentiful exchange opportunities it offered.

"We are the only partner Kellogg has in Asia, but it offers joint programmes in places including Tel Aviv in Israel, Canada and Germany. We sponsor exchanges to Chicago and two other places of students' preference. Students can build up extensive international networks through the exchanges."

Au said the cost of the programme would rise by 15 per cent next year.

"Tuition fees will rise from HK$840,000 now to HK$970,000 next year," she said.

The director of Chinese University's EMBA programme, Andrew Chan, said the university was pleased with its rise in ranking.

"The programme's graduates achieved a high salary increase rate of 64 per cent [over the pre-EMBA pay levels]," he said.

"To enable students to interact with senior executives in different parts of the world, we'll continue to organise more global study trips," he said. "In June this year, the students completed a global study programme at Berkeley."

Source: SCMP, 26 October 2010

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100 years Chinese in the Netherlands

In the next months, the Chinese community in the Netherlands will be celebrating the centennial of the settlement of the first Chinese in Holland.
These first settlers were sailors who served on ships bound for Dutch ports and who decided to stay. They found accomodation in lodgings that were run by Chinese near the port. These lodgings became the seeds of the China towns of Rotterdam and Amsterdam.

Over the years the canteens of the lodgings became Chinese restaurants and gradually Dutch customers found their way to these establishments as well. A new phenomenon was born in the Netherlands: the Chinese restaurant.

At present there are some 90,000 Chinese in the Netherlands. More than two-thirds of them hail from Hong Kong and the Chinese Mainland. About 15,000 Chinese in the Netherlands came from Indonesia. A much smaller group came from Surinam, Vietnam, Singaport, Malaysia and Taiwan.
Today Chinese Dutch(wo)men are represented in all professions of the Dutch economy: from restaurant and shop owner to surgeon, from designer to entrepreneur, from housewife to professor and from soldier to senator.

To coordinate the celebration of 100 Years Chinese in the Netherlands, a foundation was established with the same name. The Netherlands Hong Kong Society will keep you informed about the activities of this foundation during the anniversary year. Please check the events agenda for news regularly.

http://www.nhks.nl/?Events_-_Agenda

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Victor Fung: "Mainland China sales vital to Hong Kong"

Hong Kong's competitiveness hinges on local companies adapting their experience in wholesaling and distribution in Western countries to tap the mainland's domestic market, says Victor Fung, the chairman of a high-level think tank on integration between the city and the mainland.

Victor Fung Kwok-king, chairman of the Greater Pearl River Delta Business Council, said in the light of the mainland's fast-growing domestic market, Hong Kong firms should gradually shift their focus away from exporting products manufactured on the mainland to overseas counties and towards extending their distribution networks north of the border.

The council has put forward a series of proposals regarding further economic integration between Hong Kong and the mainland in a report on the city's role in the nation's economic development, which was released last week.

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