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CUHK UPDates - How Ng Mee-kam has helped revive a Hong Kong hawker market
// What the government saw as an eyesore in the form of a run-down fabric market on the crowded Kowloon peninsula, others saw as an opportunity. Even the fabric merchants who make up the Pang Jai Fabric Market did not recognize its own value until encouraged to take a more expansive view of its importance by urban planners at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Prof. Mee-kam Ng, Director of CUHK's Urban Studies Programme, is one of the instigators behind the initiative to salvage the market. To Professor Ng, preserving this part of Hong Kong's mercantile and social identity embodies the mission of CUHK to foster the development of both global citizens and social enterprises. //
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CUHK UPDates - How Ng Mee-kam has helped revive a Hong Kong hawker market
19 January 2018
// What the government saw as an eyesore in the form of a run-down fabric market on the crowded Kowloon peninsula, others saw as an opportunity. Even the fabric merchants who make up the Pang Jai Fabric Market did not recognize its own value until encouraged to take a more expansive view of its importance by urban planners at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Prof. Mee-kam Ng, Director of CUHK's Urban Studies Programme, is one of the instigators behind the initiative to salvage the market. To Professor Ng, preserving this part of Hong Kong's mercantile and social identity embodies the mission of CUHK to foster the development of both global citizens and social enterprises. //
Read the article in full:http://bit.ly/2Dt3JkD
