Judith-Ann Corrente recently made a major donation to CERS, followed by a visit with her husband Wim Kooyker to Myanmar and our Burmese Cat project where they made another donation to CERS to support our efforts in the country.

Daniel Ng, CERS former Chairman and founder of McDonald’s in Hong Kong, and Robert Kwan, founder of McDonald’s in Singapore, graciously offered to grill mini- burgers as one choice lot during our annual dinner auction.

Hugh Edmeades, Head of Christie’s Auctioneer, provided an excellent professional touch to our annual dinner auction.

Debra Meiburg, Master of Wine, offered her expertise hosting two dinners as an auction lot to fundraise for CERS.

Omega generously provided a limited edition Speedmaster GMT “Solar Impulse” for auction.

We thank Nury Vittachi for serving as our Master of Ceremonies of our annual dinner, and the following companies for providing special gifts for the evening: Coca-Cola China, William E Connor & Associates, Cultures by Toni P Ltd, Esquel Group, Eu Yan Sang Int’l Ltd, Lee Kum Kee Co. Ltd, Magnum Offset Printing, Omega, Ponti Trading Ltd, Shun Hing Group, Toppan Vite Limited, UBS AG, Yan Seng Factory Limited. We also thank all the individuals who helped or volunteered during the evening.

Richard Gere kindly donated a signed copy including scripting a poem of the 6th Dalai Lama in his photographic book on Tibet for CERS annual dinner auction.

Tashi Gyari donated her first children’s book, “The Monk and the Apso”, as an annual dinner gift.

Dora Wu made another major donation toward CERS Hainan traditional village restoration project.

Dr Gray Williams and Dr Cynthia Yau spent a weekend educating students affiliated with CERS conservation projects.

Coca-Cola extended its long years of support for another three years, and commit to organizing lectures for CERS to present our work to universities in China.

Dragonair continued its support of CERS.

Eric Chen and the Sampo Group made another pledge to support CERS for 2011.

Victor Hsu and Betty Tsui joined as new CERS patrons.

Dennis Cicetti made another donation to CERS.

Leonie Ki made a donation to CERS.

Self-named “Seven Golden Flowers”, who visited CERS off-sites in 2005 maintained their reunion over the years and support to CERS during our annual dinner. They are Anna Yeung, Elaine Koo, Cecilia Yau, Susan Chan, Alice Siu, Sylvia Kwok and Bonnie Huo. This year, they invited How Man to join their hike along the south coast of Hong Kong.