About Newswood:
Newswood Limited is a member of the companies found by its co-founder Dr. Sio-Iong Ao (Ph.D. The University of Hong Kong; Post-doc University of Oxford & Harvard University; Former Visiting Professor, Cranfield University, U.K. & University of Wyoming, USA; with more details available at: http://www.engineeringletters.com/editors/SIO-IONG-AO.html). Dr. Ao's company have initially focused in the education sector in 1994. Since 2005, Newswood has been a pioneering scholarly publisher on open access academic publishing.
Education
Dr. Ao's first company focused initially on the education sector in 1994. Its co-founder Dr. Sio-Iong Ao has found its first education centre in 1994 in the first floor of the Godfrey Shopping Centre:
This unit of about 200 square feet was a rented property. In late 1998, Dr. Ao decided to set up a pioneering company on Internet computing and network engineering, and rented another larger unit at Hollywood Plaza of more than 300 square feet:
Later, the company bought its own properties so that it can have a much more stable environment for long-term development.
Internet Technologies and Applications
In 1998, Dr. Ao forecasted that the innovative Internet technologies are going to gain popularity in Hong Kong, and thus Dr. Ao found the Internet business as well. Subsequently, Newsbook Limited was formed for the promotions of Internet and e-commerce applications. In 2000, the conglomerate bought its own property in Kwun Tong to provide long-term stability for its development and growth. Newsbook was highly rated by the Internet professionals and corporation users:
-- Become one of the biggest - fifth B2B ISP in Hong Kong (ref: PC Market 329 issue, 17th Nov., 1999);
-- Being one of the largest web hosting houses (ref: Wen Wei Po Newspaper, 14th April, 2000);
-- A report of HK's largest web hosting house Newsbook (ref: Ming Pao Daily, 11th July, 2000)
-- Newsbook Ltd. develops stably (ref: A report by Economic Report 19th November, 2001)
-- Quality service and special price to attract small to medium sized enterprises (ref: A report by Sing Tao Daily 11th September, 2002)
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Academic Publishing
Newswood publishes journals, conference proceedings and books with a comprehensive covering of all the major branches of engineering for international association. Each journal and conference proceeding has their own web page and is available to accredited universities and government libraries in hard-copy format and online open access version. Newswood has also been co-operating with international association and other well-known publishers like Springer, World Scientific, American Institute of Physics, and CRC Press of Taylor & Francis etc., to publish pioneering academic books, with more details available at:
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