GE2024-02
We live in a globalised world with news circulating across the Internet, through social media, and other online avenues in an instant. By tapping your smartphone, you can glimpse the latest news happening thousands of miles away, but the information presented may only scratch the surface. To facilitate in-depth understanding and discussion on significant international and regional news, Global News Chat invites students from various backgrounds to share their personal views and insights on the issues they care about.
If you want to hear and share the latest developments on the topics below and how they relate to you, please do not miss this chance. Register and join us on Global News Chat! Prior knowledge about the issues is not required; come along and learn more from our HKU peers.
Previous discussion topics include the UK election, social and political issues in India, the municipal solid waste management in Hong Kong, etc.
每天在國際社會上都有不同大小的發展，但為何我們還要關心世界、關注國際事務？所謂牽一髮而動全身，在世界不同角落發生的事都會直接或間接地影響我們怎樣自處。唯有我們可以透過國際新聞思考個人和社會的關係、與朋輩相互砥礪、認識自我、了解世界。
每個學期，Global News Chat都會邀請來自不同地方的同學分享他們所關注的時事，由英國大選、印度社會和政治問題、覆蓋至香港都市固體廢物處理等不同中外議題。
#Session 1 - Mass migration from Myanmar: the aftermath of the longest civil war in the world (10/10/2024)
Student Hosts: A group of Myanmar students in HKU
Over the years, Mae Sot, a city on the Thailand-Myanmar border, has hosted different kinds of migrants: refugees, migrant workers, migrant students, politicians, armed groups, and most recently, people who had to flee from the conscription law. Despite their diverse backgrounds, they all share one thing in common: forced mass displacement. If you had the chance to talk to different people on the streets of Mae Sot, you would learn that many of them carry the pain of leaving their homes involuntarily to seek temporary shelter in Mae Sot, with the hope of returning home soon. However, their wishes have not been fulfilled for more than 70 years. Recently, Myanmar has seen a large number of migrants again due to the 2021 military coup. Since then, students have been unable to attend school, and after enduring months of military atrocities, protests have escalated into armed resistance. As a result of the ongoing conflicts and the recently announced conscription law, the country is experiencing a greater wave of mass migration, in other words, a larger number of forced mass displacements.
In this session, a group of Myanmar students will lead the discussion on the underlying causes for Myanmar people to migrate and the challenges they face as involuntary migrants abroad.
Registration(Session 1): https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=96865
If you want to hear and share the latest developments on the topics below and how they relate to you, please do not miss this chance. Register and join us on Global News Chat! Prior knowledge about the issues is not required; come along and learn more from our HKU peers.
Previous discussion topics include the UK election, social and political issues in India, the municipal solid waste management in Hong Kong, etc.
每天在國際社會上都有不同大小的發展，但為何我們還要關心世界、關注國際事務？所謂牽一髮而動全身，在世界不同角落發生的事都會直接或間接地影響我們怎樣自處。唯有我們可以透過國際新聞思考個人和社會的關係、與朋輩相互砥礪、認識自我、了解世界。
每個學期，Global News Chat都會邀請來自不同地方的同學分享他們所關注的時事，由英國大選、印度社會和政治問題、覆蓋至香港都市固體廢物處理等不同中外議題。
#Session 1 - Mass migration from Myanmar: the aftermath of the longest civil war in the world (10/10/2024)
Student Hosts: A group of Myanmar students in HKU
Over the years, Mae Sot, a city on the Thailand-Myanmar border, has hosted different kinds of migrants: refugees, migrant workers, migrant students, politicians, armed groups, and most recently, people who had to flee from the conscription law. Despite their diverse backgrounds, they all share one thing in common: forced mass displacement. If you had the chance to talk to different people on the streets of Mae Sot, you would learn that many of them carry the pain of leaving their homes involuntarily to seek temporary shelter in Mae Sot, with the hope of returning home soon. However, their wishes have not been fulfilled for more than 70 years. Recently, Myanmar has seen a large number of migrants again due to the 2021 military coup. Since then, students have been unable to attend school, and after enduring months of military atrocities, protests have escalated into armed resistance. As a result of the ongoing conflicts and the recently announced conscription law, the country is experiencing a greater wave of mass migration, in other words, a larger number of forced mass displacements.
In this session, a group of Myanmar students will lead the discussion on the underlying causes for Myanmar people to migrate and the challenges they face as involuntary migrants abroad.
Registration(Session 1): https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=96865
Schedule:
| Date | Time | Venue |
| 10 Oct 2024 | 16:30 - 18:00 | GE Gatherland 240 (MB240, 2/F, Main Building, HKU) |