ow free is too free? Or, perhaps more accurately, how low is too low? These are the questions that officials and consumers in Hong Kong are asking as the media dishes up an increasingly sensational, voyeuristic and sometimes fictional diet of scandal, gore and intrigue. Did the Apple Daily, one of the tabloid market leaders, step over the line when it paid a labourer to pose in bed with a prostitute, thus illustrating the infidelity which drove his wife to push her two sons out of their high-rise apartment window and to jump herself? At what point does the government intervene to enforce minimum standards to protect the morals or sensibilities of society, or does the media industry itself need to rein in its own activities? So serious is the slide into tabloid journalism in• Hong Kong that one pressure group has established a 'pollution index' to monitor the media and provide the public with a list of the most 'polluted' publications (Ming Pao, 26 April1999). The Hong Kong Journalists Association itself warns that pressures will grow for the policing of the media if the trend in sensationalism continues, opening up new avenues for government intervention in Hong Kong, a territory jealously guarding its freedoms as the 'Special Administrative Region' (SAR) following its handover from Britain to China in 1997. Could media irresponsibility so frustrate the public that the people of Hong Kong would be willing to trade off media freedoms and bring the local press more in line with Beijing? The handover and the media It seems ironic that two years after the handover which came with all the fears of Communist-style controls, that the biggest concern for press

Sudden changes to the TV schedules at Hong Kong's public broadcaster have caused concerns throughout the industry. CHRIS YEUNG reports CREDIT: (Lai) Top Photo/SIPA USA/PA Images; (Pak-chuen & Sin-yan) Top Photo/ SIPA USA/PA Images

This paper describes a system designed to help architecture students in designing three-dimensional objects in a collaborative way. When implementing this system, VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language), Java and Javascript are used. This system uses the World Wide Web, which is getting more and more popular in recent years, as the media to transfer information all over the world.The system allows many users to view three-dimensional objects, change attributes of the objects, discuss and design at the same time. These users can be located in different parts of the world. Each only needs a computer that is connected to the Internet and a web browser that can display VRML objects to use the system. The computer can be any hardware platform running any Operating System. The objective of this project is to develop a system that can run on any computer hardware and software platform. Without any limitation on hardware and software platform, people from different parts of the world can work collaboratively to design architectural objects.

With the increasing popularity of consumer wearable devices augmented with sensing capabilities (smart bands, smart watches), there is a significant focus in extracting meaningful information about human behaviour through large scale real-world wearable sensor data. The focus of this work is to develop techniques to detect human activities, utilising a large datasets of wearable data where no ground truth has been produced on the actual activities performed. We propose a deep learning variational auto encoder activity recognition model-Motion2Vector. The model is trained using large

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