On 7/7, 6 Local Committees, together with MC team 05/06, went through a 7-hour “personal discovery trip” to search their own souls. Admittedly, it was an EQ Training facilitated by Mr. Charles Yu, a leading EQ psychologist in Hong Kong . During the short trip, all the participants not only got closer relationship with their group members and team leaders, but also understood how EQ contributes to a successful life. In short, we all had a fruitful, relaxing and inspiring day.

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Contact: Gary Wong, President, AIESEC-HK 05/06, gary.wong@aiesec.hk

The Annual General Meeting was successfully held on the 16th of July. Directors of AIESEC in HONG KONG MC Team 04/05 have presented their achievements and non-achievements. Annual Awards were also presented in the meeting. Annual Partners' Day were held right after the AGM and a few honorable partners were invited to join.

Annual Awards Results
After 365 days of AIESEC Experience, it is time to celebrate the great results contributed by any single individual and Local Committees.
After seriously reviewing all award applications received, the panel made the final judges. The winners of awards are as follows.

AIESEC of the Year 2004/2005: Ms. Tracy Chan, Exchange Controller (Incoming), AIESEC-LC-CUHK 04/05
These awards should be given to recognize individuals for their AIESEC experience and contribution to the global organization. Basically, they should be those who are creating the most powerful impact to both AIESEC in HONG KONG and AIESEC internationally.

Progressive LC Award 2004/2005: AIESEC-LC-HKBU
This is to go to the Local Committee that improved their performances compared to the state they were the previous year. The purpose of the award is to acknowledge the Local Committee that improved but are not quite highly performing yet.

Creativity and Innovation Award 2004/2005: AIESEC-LC-HKU
The purpose of this award is to encourage creativity around the Core Work Process and other Global initiatives. Innovation and creativity can have a huge impact on motivation of members and this award should stimulate creativity in the organization.

Local Committee of the Year 2004/2005: AIESEC-LC-HKU
This is an annual award to recognise a Local Committee for outstanding overall performance. The awarded LC can be seen as a “ most respected Local Committee ”.

Congratulations to all the winners and we are proud of your endless effort to AIESEC in HONG KONG . We hope all of you can gear up and reach to the peak of the mountain with us in the Year of Excellence!

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Contact: Gary Wong, President, AIESEC-HK 05/06, gary.wong@aiesec.hk

LN Rocks! Three of the passionate AIESECers from AIESEC in HONG KONG have applied for the Global Initiative Group Moderators Team and they have made it! Congratulations to Agnes Ip, Maggie Fung and Alvin Ng. Thanks for their continuous commitment to AIESEC and Learning Network. Agnes and Maggie will be responsible for Corporate Responsible IG and Alvin in Finance IG.

1. They will be facilitating the flow of information and discussion; from blogs, to community forums, to external web pages and back.

2. They will be facilitating discussion between member forums and alumni/partner forums. They will be pulling key content from our members and posting requests to our professionals, and in parallel drawing insights from professionals and posting them to stimulate thought from our members.

3. Over time they will be compiling reports from the hottest topics, the key conclusions and questions that each generation of @ers have on an issue, filtering what maybe useful for future learning and leaving an open and up to date environment.

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Contact: Ron Tsang, Director(LC Development), AIESEC-HK 05/06, ron.tsang@aiesec.hk

Most of the MC members have already moved in MC Appartment for a few weeks. We all agree it is a fantastic experience to live together. If you had experienced to stay with us, you would probably hear several times of “seriously” at night and be impressed by our diligent cleaning leader (guess who?) and CEEDers and the cooking team ladies. Moreover, we are leading a truly AIESEC life that watching BBC World everyday. Call us if you are excited to visit our place!

Address: Room 11D, Hung Cheong House, Des Vouex Road West , West District, Hong Kong

On the other hand, MC team will work in a new office from 1030-1900. From now on, all the team meetings will be held there. Here is the address.

Room 19A, Greatmany Building , Wan Chai, Hong Kong

Hey dudes, get ready to bring your great mind in our meeting room!

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Contact: Gary Wong, President, AIESEC-HK 05/06, gary.wong@aiesec.hk

Thank you for very much for all your support. Around 20 candidates from 6 universities, who had been actively involved in AIESEC, had applied to be participated in our most intensive learning experience - Exchange. They will be involved in the Student Review Board on 23rd July, 2005 (Coming Saturday). We are very honoured to have invited externals and alumni to be our screeners for the coming Student Review Board.

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Contact: Jacqueline So, Director(Outgoing Exchange), AIESEC-HK 05/06, jacqueline.so@aiesec.hk

After months of hot discussion around the globe in each AIESEC country, the result of the sign-up to Initiave Groups has released.
For the two IGs AIESEC in HONG KONG has signed up Corporate Responsibility and Finance, the response from
many AIESEC countries is positive. At the edn of July, all MCs aroud the world will have to submit the paln for LN. I look forward to hearing your opinion and advice on the LN.

25 Countries have signed up for Corporate Responsibility Initiative Group, they are Australia, Bolivia, Bosnia &amp Herzegowina, Brazil, Colombia, CAS, Ecuador, Egypt, Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Kenya, Mainland of China, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Puerto, Rico, Romania, Serbia & Montenegro, Spain, Taiwan and Venezuala


14 Countries has sined up for Finance Initiative Group, thy are Austria, Belgium, Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Kenya, Macedonia FYRO, The Netherlands, Poland, Senegal, Serbia & Montenegro, South Africa, Switzerland and Tunisia

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Contact: Ron Tsang, Director(LC Development), AIESEC-HK 05/06, ron.tsang@aiesec.hk

The first page of AIESEC in HONG KONG 05/06 - Recruitment !

I guess all LCs are busy planning for your Recruitment Strategy to get the Right people for you LC, right? Are we doing it in a SMART and EFFECTIVE way? We will be very delighted to discuss with you all about your Recruitment Strategy for the coming recruitmet! We will be preparing materials to support the Common Recruitment: Leaflet, case-studies, banner, poster, PowerPoint…etc. They will be all be ready in Early - Mid August ! Nonetheless these materials would be useless without a Fantastic Promotion Campaign. Let's get it started! Feel free to contact me, if there're any questions. Let's make it happen!

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Contact: Jacqueline So, Director(Outgoing Exchange), AIESEC-HK 05/06, jacqueline.so@aiesec.hk

National Exchange Partnerships

1. Sun Life Financial Asia Diana Guzmán, trainee coming from Mexico, is starting her first day of work in Sun Life Financial Asia on Monday, July 18, 2005. Many thanks to AIESEC-LC-Lingnan for reception of Diana. It is really great to have Diana with us in AIESEC in HONG KONG!
2. Kraft Foods Ltd After our farewell to our beloved trainee Ceha, we are about to welcome a new trainee in the Sales Department of Kraft Foods Ltd. Please send your warm regards to Yenny Winarko, trainee from Indonesia! She will be starting her traineeship as soon as visa issues are settled.

Global Exchange Partnership - DHL (HK) Ltd

AIESEC in HONG KONG is most honoured to be the host of Global Exchange Partner - DHL again, after our hosting in the session 2003-2004. Can Sener, trainee from Turkey, will be working as Project Executive in DHL (HK) Ltd. He will be starting work on 22nd August. It is really exciting to have trainees from 3 different GNs (SSGN, AP, CEE)!

We're sure that Diana, Yenny and Can will come just in time to join LCs' recruitment campaigns! Make sure you get very very familiar with them and show the hospitality of AIESEC in HONG KONG! Don't miss the chance to EXPERIENCE the impact of EXCHANGE!!

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Contact: Mindy Ho, Director(Incoming Exchange), AIESEC-HK 05/06, mindy.ho@aiesec.hk

AIESEC.net scalability update has released in Global Information Systems Community!

Currently AI IS Support Team is working actively on identifying bottleneck on the AIESEC.net server and formulating strategies to elimiate them. The solide-state disk (SSD) technology, a technology which is used by NASA as well as the U.S. Army, was deployed in April to improve the system performance. However, due to the presence of other bottlenecks, the overall system performance was not improved.

A roadmap has been developed and here is a brief summary of it.
Brief summary of the plan
3 key components:

• Upgrade of AIESEC.net database server hardware (instead of one 2-CPU server we will add 2x 4-CPU servers, first by August, second in the coming 6 months).
• Upgrade of database software from Oracle 8i to Oracle 10g, with clustering capability
• User interface optimization (optimizing the most frequently used parts of the system)

We are confident that this upgrade will resolve the current problems, as well as provide enough capacity for future activities on the system. We expect that this investment will address scalability for the next 3-4 years. Please stay tuned for more updates and a faster and more reliable @.net!!

Moreover, the results of the survey conducted for Junior Achievement & AIESEC in HONG KONG are released! Please click the following link for the survey results.

http://aiesec.hk/JA/results.html

Please be reminded that another survey for MC Planning input was prepared and waiting for your valuable opinions! Please spend a few minutes to finish the survey at http://aiesec.hk/students/application.html. Your views and ideas are crucial for MC Team to build a visonary yet realistic plan for the Year of Excellence! Your effort are highly appreciated. Thank you very much!

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Contact: Ricky Tang, Vice-President(Information Systems), AIESEC-HK 05/06, ricky.tang@aiesec.hk

You might notice that this issue of newsletter is different, right? Because this newsletter is edited based on the newly released Global Newsletter & Annoucement Template! You might find the templates together with the user guide by clicking the following link:

http://www.aiesec.net/members/globalbrandingcommunity/file-storage/file?file_id=28004912

Please be reminded that all online announcements & newletters published have to be aligned to the templates. Thank you!

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Contact: Andrea Krause, Director(External Relations), AIESEC-HK 05/06, andrea.krause@aiesec.hk