Introduction

Brief Description of the Global Lounge

The Global Lounge, located at the ground floor of the Fong Shu Chuen Amenities Centre, opened in November 2005, is an academic department under the HKU Registry. The Lounge aims to be an international hub, providing information, services, and a platform for students to meet each others from different cultures. The function of the Global Lounge is similar to a SME (Small and Medium Enterprise). It is defined as an organisation whose headcount or turnover falls below 50 employees and turnovers of less than 10 million Euro (Wikipedia, 2006).
Click here to see the virtual Global Lounge.

The Global Lounge relies heavily on the University' s funding and donations, which used for installing several facilities.

Global Lounge is partly donated by Ms Serene H.C. Yang-->

The following are the state-of-the art facilities that it has:
• Television links to around the world (one large 60" plasma TV and 12 smaller plasma TVs, featuring news and other TV stations from different countries).

• A Library corner that provides travel and overseas universities' information.

Library corner-->

• An office and meeting room that deals with enquiries and support.

• A fitness room and 2 changing rooms

• An outdoor eating area

• Newspapers and magazines available from around the world every day.

• Pacific Coffee

• Wi-Fi connection

• 2 public PCs that enable internet access

Besides, the Lounge organises a number of international events regularly, such as recitals, film festivals, talks, plays, shows, talks and exhibitions.

Gig in Global Lounge-->