20 Mar 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: JIANG Haishan
Vice President,
China Executive Leadership Academy, Pudong (CELAP)
Topic: China's new policies after The National People's Congress
The session of the National People’s Congress ending on March 17 is producing a new president, premier and set of ministers for China who are ...
14 Mar 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Allan CHIANG, SBS
Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Hong Kong
Topic: Balance between Privacy Rights and Public Interest
Finding a balance between the right to privacy and other social and economic rights is tricky, as highlighted by the raging debate over a proposal to redact direc...
11 Mar 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: David ANDERSON
Author & Physician
Topic: Hongshan Jade Carvings: Collection and Controversy
Mr. ANDERSON has openly collected more than a thousand jade carvings from China’s prehistoric Hongshan Culture (3,500 – 2,000 BCE) over the past 13 years, and he has done so at relatively little c...
6 Mar 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: John WOOD
Former Microsoft Executive, Founder of Room to Read
Topic: Creating Room to Read: A Story of Hope in the Battle for Global Literacy
John WOOD will share the story of what happened when Room to Read began to grow beyond his wildest dreams, and discuss the rapid expansion of this...
26 Feb 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Larry LIPSHER
California & Hong Kong CPA
Topic: Bungee Jumping the Fiscal Cliff !
On 1 January 2013, Congress passed and the President signed the American Taxpayers Relief Act of 2012. This is the first of a few tax-related bills which must be legislated in the U.S. during 2013 that will...
19 Feb 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: John GARNAUT
China Correspondent for The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, Foreign Policy
Topic: BO Xilai’s fall and XI Jinping’s Rise : How Power Really Works in China
BO Xilai's fall from grace is an extraordinary tale of excess, political purges, ideological clashes and the Byzantine de...
5 Feb 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Topic: Will corporate transparency survive in Hong Kong?
A proposed change to the Companies Ordinance would withhold crucial details of company directors from the public record, a move which raises grave concerns among journalists, lawyers, bankers, accountants, investors and others. Many in the...
23 Jan 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Mark KITTO
Magazine Founder / Author
Topic: Going Quietly Cuckoo on a Chinese Mountain
In 2005, Mark KITTO was told by many people that he was mad to move to Moganshan, a remote mountaintop village in Zhejiang where he planned to set up a coffee shop with his wife and to write books. He ...
22 Jan 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. RUAN Zongze
Vice President and Senior Fellow at the China Institute of International Studies
Topic: The World and Chinese Diplomacy in 2013
The new year brings a long list of diplomatic challenges, and as the sudden evacuation of Chinese nationals from distant Libya showed nearly two...
21 Jan 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: P. Kevin MacKeown
Honorary Professor of Physics, University of Hong Kong
Topic: Typhoons and Taskmasters: Early Meteorology in Colonial Hong Kong
In the three proposed schemes for an observatory at Hong Kong, a role for forecasting typhoon occurrences actually received little emphasis. A...
