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Our FCC Speakers Series is a unique opportunity for our members and their guests to listen, engage and discuss the latest local and international events and trends at the Club. The talks, organized by the Club’s Professional Committee, are hosted in the FCC’s main dining room, usually over lunch and occasionally over breakfast or dinner. The speaker typically gives initial remarks for 20 minutes and then takes questions for 20 minutes. The events are on the record, and videos of them go up on the Club’s website.

Aside from organizing guest speakers, the Professional Committee plans and produces evening documentary screenings, educational workshops, debates, speed-networking opportunities and events that benefit FCC members and provide opportunities for correspondents and journalists to grow professionally. See below for a full list of all club activities.
6 Sep 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Professor Michael E. DEGOLYER Hong Kong Baptist University Topic: How heavily are issues such as corruption and national education weighing on the minds of Hong Kong voters? Nationalism, corruption and curriculum changes have a triggered a series of protests in Hong Kong earlier this yea...
4 Sep 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
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 ...
3 Sep 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
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...
29 Aug 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Authors: Matthew FLYNN and Doug WOODRING Topic: Water Margin Hong Kong’s Link to the Sea Water Margin is a timely reminder of the special relationship between Hong Kong and the waters that surround it. Hong Kong was born because of its location on the southern coast of China, dotted with beautifu...
27 Aug 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Gerard LEMOS Author / Former Chairman, The British Council Topic: What do people in China want and will they get it? Gerard LEMOS, author of “The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese people fear the future”, spent several months in the South West of China far from the shiny, prosperous ...
24 Jul 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
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 In recent years, China's deepening relationship with Africa has become one of the most wi...
12 Jul 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Rob COX Americas Editor, Reuters Breakingviews Topic: Economic implications of the U.S. elections Whether Barack OBAMA is re-elected or defeated by former Massachusetts Governor Mitt ROMNEY won’t make much of a difference on the one legislative priority the new president will face: fixin...
4 Jul 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Johnny Yui-siu LAU Independent Political Commentator Topic: Self censorship in Hong Kong: how worried should we be? The South China Morning Post has come under the spotlight as the world considers the state of Hong Kong’s rights and freedoms on the 15th anniversary of its handover to Chi...
21 Jun 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. Mark MOBIUS Executive Chairman of the Templeton Emerging Markets Group Topic: MOBIUS on emerging market The traditional dominance of the G7 countries continue to be challenged by emerging nations like China and Brazil, especially as the Eurozone crisis grips the global economy. Mark ...
20 Jun 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
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 Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1870, Frederick O’NEILL went to Liaoning in 1897 to serve as a missionary. H...
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