The Chinese University of Hong Kong will confer honorary doctorates on six distinguished persons at its Sixty-second Congregation for the Conferment of Degrees on Thursday, 8th December 2005. The six honorary graduands are Mr. Vincent Cheng Hoi-chuen, distinguished banker and chairman of HSBC; Prof. Ambrose King Yeo-chi, renowned sociologist and former vice-chancellor of CUHK; Prof. Li Yihyuan, famous anthropologist, academician of Academia Sinica in Taiwan and chairman of the Chiang Ching Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange; Dr. Lien Chan, eminent statesman and honorary chairman of the Kuomintang; Dr. Richard J. Roberts, renowned molecular biologist and Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1993); and Mr. Wang Daohan, respected senior statesman and president of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait.
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