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A self-taught former factory worker who studied for his engineering degree by night has been elected as the head of one of the world’s leading electronic engineering societies. This year, Gao Huijun will become the first president of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society from mainland China. The society, founded in 1951, is a branch of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), an organisation with over 400,000 members in more than 160 countries. Gao, a professor at the...

Feel strongly about these letters, or any other aspects of the news? Share your views by emailing us your Letter to the Editor at letters@scmp.com or filling in this Google form. Submissions should not exceed 400 words I wish to express my strong support for the Fire Services Department’s swift launch of a two-month operation, following the Wang Fuk Court fire in Tai Po (“Hong Kong authorities start 2-month inspection operation on building fire safety”, January 19). In focusing on older...

A Tokyo metropolitan government survey has found that about one in six men who use the city’s trains and stations say they have been groped – a level experts describe as unexpectedly high and a reminder that women are not the only targets of the Japanese capital’s notorious chikan molesters. The same survey found that 54.3 per cent of women reported having been inappropriately touched on public transport, a figure that remains far higher than for men but has long been the focus of official...

China is stepping up efforts to strengthen its influence in the pricing of global non-ferrous metals, rolling out measures to deepen market activity and tightening links between futures, spot and derivatives trading. Authorities in Shanghai, the mainland’s financial hub, on Tuesday rolled out an action plan aimed at strengthening the links between the futures, spot and derivatives markets for non-ferrous metals. It is part of a broader ambition to enhance Shanghai’s role in global commodity...