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Over 180 stalls selling new and preloved items will be set up at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) this Saturday (5 December 2009). The proceeds from the stall hire will be donated to the Operation Santa Claus, and the event also supports the Recycle-Reduce-Reuse (3Rs) campaign. The bi-annual Garage Sale to be held at the multi-level covered car park on HKUST campus will be selling an extensive variety of exciting new and preloved goods. The sale will be run from 9:30 am to 1:30 pm. Mrs Jean Hudson, the coordinator, said, "We are delighted that the response from vendors both the HKUST community and outside is overwhelming. The response from 3R enthusiasts is so keen that some of the interested vendors had to be turned down due to space limitation."

A charity garage sale with over 160 tables of new and second-hand goods will be held in the car park at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology this Saturday, 6 June 2009, from 9:30 am to 1:30 pm. The event is run voluntarily on a non-profit making basis, with all the surplus funds going to charity, an HKUST spokesman said. Apart from the charity element, the garage sale also supports environmental sustainability and the 3-R's (Recycle, Reuse and Reduce). The stall-holders are not limited to HKUST staff, students and alumni, but also include interested members of the public coming as far as from Tung Chung and the South District of Hong Kong Island. In addition to selling goods, the garage sale also collects used items in good condition which people no longer require. These are donated to charities selected by HKUST students. Admission to the garage sale is free, and food, drinks and parking are available.

More than 20 international students clad in different national costumes and folk dresses paraded down the catwalk at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) today (Friday) to celebrate the university's cultural diversity. The occasion was a multinational fashion show named "UST in Style". These international students under The Swire International Young Fellows Programme joined hands with local and exchange students to form six teams, each featuring the fashion of one cultural region, and competing against each other for the awards for "Best Model", "Best Presentation", and "Overall Championship". The teams featured the fashion and culture of China, East Asia, South Asia, the Philippines, Scandinavia, and Europe. They comprised students from Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Indonesia, Mainland China, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, Germany, UK and Chile.

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Thammasat University from Thailand has emerged the winner of the Citi International Case Competition 2007, beating 17 other outstanding teams from leading business schools around the world. The theme for this year's competition was environmental protection to reduce the impact of climate change in business. Held in Hong Kong from October 22 to 25, 2007, the fifth Citi International Case Competition attracted 18 teams from Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Mainland China, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Thailand and the USA.

Bookcrossing has grown into a global phenomenon in the past decade, but the idea still hasn’t taken off in Hong Kong. A team of HKUST alumni are determined to build a local reading culture by releasing second-hand books into the wild, with the help of an app they designed.Book circulation was stagnant with the traditional way of bookcrossing. Thousands of books ended up sitting on our shelves.