FCCHongKong

Panelists:

Albert CHENG
Founder, President, Editor in Chief, Digital Broadcasting Corporation

Claudia MO
Freelance journalist and university lecturer

Allen CHENG
Institutional Investor's Asia Bureau Chief and Managing Director for the magazine division in Asia, Editor in Chief of IIChina.com

MAK Yin Ting
Hong Kong correspondent for Radio France International & Chairperson, Hong Kong Journalists' Association

Paul MOONEY
Freelance journalist based in Beijing since 1994 - (joining by Skype)

Topic: Pressure on the Press: State of Self-Censorship in Hong Kong + 15

Speakers:

Frederick FUNG 馮檢基
Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood

Starry LEE 李慧琼
Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong

Pamela PECK 白韻琹
Independent candidate

James TO 涂謹申
Democratic Party

(CHAN Yuen-han, LAU Kwong-wah and Albert HO were also invited but could not attend.)

Topic: Super Seats, Super Mandates? A Legco Election Candidates Forum

Authors: Matthew FLYNN and Doug WOODRING

Topic: Water Margin Hong Kong’s Link to the Sea

Speaker: Gerard LEMOS
Author / Former Chairman, The British Council

Topic: What do people in China want and will they get it?

Speaker: Howard FRENCH
Associate Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Former Bureau Chief, The New York Times

Topic: Haphazard Empire: Encounters with China's Migrants to Africa

Speaker: Rob COX
Americas Editor, Reuters Breakingviews

Topic: Economic implications of the U.S. elections

Speaker: Johnny Yui-siu LAU
Independent Political Commentator

Topic: Self censorship in Hong Kong: how worried should we be?

Speaker: Dr. Mark MOBIUS
Executive Chairman of the Templeton Emerging Markets Group

Topic: MOBIUS on emerging market

Speaker: Mark O’ NEILL
Author & Journalist

Topic: Boxer Rebellion, Manchurian Plague, Japanese Invasion and House Arrest: 45 years of an Irish Missionary Life in Liaoning 1897 to 1942

Speaker: Pavin CHACHAVALPONGPUN
Associate Professor, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University

Topic: Thaksin’s Homecoming: Yes? No? So What?