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Kwun Tong Rotary Club – Project Music Across the Ocean
The spirit of internationality “Music Across the Ocean was the theme of an international service project which brought together Rotarians of Kieran To B, gruitan E aspha and Santa Philippines. Members of the three clubs sponsored a singing tour of the Philippines for the 54 members of the Kwun Tong Children’s Chorus. The Kwun Tong…
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Kowloon East Rotary Club – Rotary Villages Project in Jiangsu China
The Rotary Club of Kowloon East Rotary Villages Project in Jiangsu Province, China, 1992 九龍東區扶輪社 1992 年中國江蘇省扶輪新村項目 China- Jiangsu Province residents join Tommy Wan of the Rotary Club of Kowloon East commemorating the building of the first of two Rotary Club villages in mainland China. Each village includes 110 houses, which the Rotarians donated to…
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Tolo Harbour Rotary Club supported End Polio in Africa
Tolo Harbour Rotary Club supported End Polio in Africa — 1997 Charter President 1987-1988-1989, Tolo Harbour Rotary Club 24 October 2015 PolioPlus Program World Polio Day is 24 October. PolioPlus, the most ambitious program in Rotary’s history, is the volunteer arm of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. For the last three decades, Rotary has led…
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澳門濠江扶輪社 – 廣西北海 – 水井和圖書館項目
For a long time, the social friends of the Haojiang River in Macao have been full of love. They have donated money in the mainland of the motherland, and Fu Lingke is sleepy, and the egg has been praised. On the occasion of the golden autumn of 2007, through the new publishing bureau in Beihai…
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Rotary International District 345 Governors (1960-1984)
Translation – Rotary International District 345 was established on July 1, 1960, comprising three territories from three different countries: the Republic of China (Taiwan), the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, and the Portuguese territory of Macao. On July 1, 1987, the district was redefined to include only Hong Kong and Macao. Subsequently, starting July…
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R.I. District 345 Award-Winning Club Projects
AWARD-WINNING CLUB PROJECTS The Awards Committee of District 345 has presented trophies to two Clubs for their outstanding contributions to their communities. They are: -The Rotary Club of Hong Kong Island West: for its Rotary Village on Mount Davis (see photo). Opened early this year, the Village provides permanent housing for 64 families, a total…
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R.I. District 345 – Rotary in Taiwan
《The Rotarian》 November 1973 THE CHARTERING of the first Rotary Club on Taiwan was not a beginning but rather a continuation of the Rotary tradition of mainland China. The Chinese Communist victory over the Nationalist armies in 1949 effectively ended Rotary on the mainland, but a year earlier the seed had been transplanted to Taiwan…
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R.I. District 345 – Projects by Clubs in Taiwan
Republic of China. Here is a happy thought from the Rotary Club of Taipei West. Most of the club’s previous projects had been highly “visible” ones: a playground, a waterfall, a home for crippled children, a city clean-up campaign. One day, feeling that a little optimism wouldn’t hurt the community, the club decided to initiate…
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District 345 of Rotary International – A General Picture in the Years
District 345 of Rotary International A General Picture in the Years 1976-1978 by Herbert K. Lau (劉敬恒) (Rotary China Historian) 1 May 2014 Except here below is a report given by S. H. Sung ( 宋常康), of Hong Kong Rotary Club ( 香港扶輪社), District 345 Governor 1975-1976, at the “Voices of Asia” Session during the…
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國際扶輪社三四五地區第二十五屆年會
Translation – The 25th Annual Conference of Rotary International District 345, marking its silver jubilee, was held from March 21 to 23, 1985, at Yangmingshan Zhongshan Hall and Taipei’s Grand Hotel. Under the leadership of Governor Ricardo Lin of Taipei East Rotary Club (1984-1985), the event attracted 1,402 participants from Hong Kong and Macau (188),…
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R.I. District 345 Mini-Marathon for Disabled in Taiwan
Over 2,000 disabled athletes competed in the mini-marathon. Rotarians take off in Taiwan joy Doing Good Things Program,” a feature of Taiwan Television Enterprise, Ltd. The Rotarians of District 345 (Republic of China) are stepping up service at all levels. One high point of the year was a mini-marathon for the disabled sponsored by 11…
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Hong Kong Tree Planting Day
A most energetic tree planting was in Hong Kong’s Sai Kung Country Park where the then Governor Arthur Au of District 345 led 1000 Rotarians, their families, and Rotaractors in planting 2,000 trees within half an hour
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Planet Rotary – History of the Rotarian Magazine since 1911
It was in 1911 that Rotary decided it needed a magazine to inform club members. That magazine was called Th National Rotarian. It wasn’t very long before the Rotarians who were coming together around the world wanted a publication of their own as well. In 1915, the first regional magazine started up, serving club members…
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Kowloon West Rotary Club Project Concern 1963 – Doctor Afloat: Hong Kong
We ARE AWAKENED each morning by the sprinkle of coins falling on the deck. But we don’t mind. It is a pleasant alarm.” Martha Turpin flashed a warm smile. “You see, out here we have been accepted and the awakening each morning indicates that the people want what we have to offer.” The offering is…
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The First 25 Years (1905-1930) – Building the structure that made Rotary great
FOR MANY YEARS, this quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson hung on the wall of the office of Paul P. Harris: “He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare.” It was in quest of friends- friendship-that Paul, at the turn of the twentieth century, began to think in terms of bringing business…
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Rotary in Asia – January 1959
There are 5,500 miles, as the jet flies, between the Straits of the Dardanelles and Tokyo Bay. Between is the world’s hugest continent, and over half the earth’s population. And here in Asia and Asian isles are 25,000 Rotarians- members of more than 620 Clubs in 26 lands. Since 1919, when Asia’s first Rotary Club…
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Rotary International President Clifford A. Randall –Visit to Hong Kong in 1959
Rotary International President (1958-1959) Clifford A. Randall (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A.) and Lady Randall visited Hong Kong in 1959. They were greeted at the Kai Tak International Airport. Following a press conference the President addressed a large Rotary gathering.
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R.I. District 3450 – Gobi Desert Race for Polio Plus -2005
Creative fundraising gives donors a run for their money Rotarians in District 3450 (Hong Kong; Macau; Mongolia) have always supported PolioPlus, but race through the picturesque Gobi desert near Dunhuang, China, a city along the Silk Road known for its proximity to a collection of caves housing hundreds of well-preserved ancient Buddhist drawings and murals.…
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R.I. President S. Kendrick Guernsey – visits Hong Kong and Macao in 1947
To the Antipodes with the Guernseys A PHOTO.REPORT ON THE PRESIDENT’S 40.000-MILE ROTARY TOUR IN THE north of New Zealand, where geysers spout and mud springs boil, a band of Maoris gathered one day a few weeks ago. True natives of this “long bright land,” they had met to welcome two strangers from far shores–the…
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一•二八事變中的上海扶輪社
The Shanghai Rotary Club, an international humanitarian organization dedicated to promoting world peace, faced significant challenges during the January 28 Incident (1932). Comprising members from China, Japan, the United States, Britain, and other countries, the club’s special committee launched petitions aimed at halting the conflict, though these efforts ultimately failed due to Japan’s issuance of…
