{"id":618,"date":"2012-11-23T03:22:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T03:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewgo.org\/site-eng\/?p=618"},"modified":"2013-11-01T19:19:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T19:19:12","slug":"opening_ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewgo.org\/site-eng\/news\/opening_ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"World Green Organisation Launching Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World Green Organisation (WGO) held a launching ceremony at Asia Society Hong Kong Center today and over 200 guests attended. <!--more-->The Hon. Michael Lai, Board Member of WGO said, many people are suffering under the negative impacts of a bad environment, and that creates social and economic issues that we have to address. The Hon. Lam Woon-kwong, the Convenor of the Non-Official Member of the Executive Council, also deliver the speech for celebration of the founding of a new organisation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-770\" title=\"ceremony_gallery\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thewgo.org\/site-eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ceremony_gallery.jpg\" width=\"385\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewgo.org\/site-eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ceremony_gallery.jpg 385w, https:\/\/thewgo.org\/site-eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ceremony_gallery-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"greenbox\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/0vq0v7s1u9d8666\/cMGWZXl22x\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to view the ceremony gallery #1<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"greenbox\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/10i0h7nregvfgx1\/iBejVhYiFD\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to view the ceremony gallery #2<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Mr. Albert Oung, Founder &amp; President of WGO said, \u201cThe world today is facing environmental menace of an unprecedented order. It is time for all of us to take action immediately to promulgate a green transformation.\u201d Dr. William Yu, the Chief Executive Officer of WGO said, \u201cThe WGO is an independent, non-profit organisation concerned with global environmental issues and local social issues related to the environment. The WGO is a research-based think tank that brings together \u2018Green Brains\u2019 from across the world; we share policy wisdom and practical experience. We are also an action-oriented organization that participates in community programmes at a district level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-803\" title=\"video_link\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thewgo.org\/site-eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/video_link.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewgo.org\/site-eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/video_link.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thewgo.org\/site-eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/video_link-300x132.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"greenbox\"><a title=\"World Green Organisation Launching Ceremony\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thewgo.org\/site-eng\/news\/opening_ceremony\/\">Click here to watch the ceremony video clips<\/a><\/div>\n<p>In the ceremony, there is sand animation performance telling a story about the nature and human are in one. The children from Rosaryhill Kindergarten also sing the song \u201cLittle Sun\u201d. WGO also invited the Diocesan Boys\u2019 School (DBS) Choir to perform several songs expressing appreciation of the glorious world. DBS Choir won the World Championships over the past seven years in international choral competitions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-602\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thewgo.org\/site-eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">World Green Organisation (WGO) held a launching ceremony today (23th November 2012) at Asia Society Hong Kong Center.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-601\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thewgo.org\/site-eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">World Green Organisation (WGO) is pleased to announce that a newly independent non-governmental organisation is founded.\u00a0Over 200 guests attended the launching ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Green Organisation (WGO) held a launching ceremony at Asia Society Hong Kong Center today and over 200 guests attended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewgo.org\/site-eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewgo.org\/site-eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewgo.org\/site-eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewgo.org\/site-eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewgo.org\/site-eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thewgo.org\/site-eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2292,"href":"https:\/\/thewgo.org\/site-eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions\/2292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewgo.org\/site-eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewgo.org\/site-eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewgo.org\/site-eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewgo.org\/site-eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}