21 Jul 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Karl Taro GREENFELD
Novelist / Journalist
Topic: Can journalists make good novelists in the Internet Era?
Literature has been filled with great writers who made the transition from journalism to fiction. Yet today there seems to be growing division between journalist and the novelist, as...
11 Jul 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: HU Shuli
Editor-in-Chief, Caixin Media
Founder & Former Editor-in-Chief, Caijing Magazine
Topic: Operating an independent media company in China - How we do it
Ms. HU Shuli shared her many challenges in setting up and running a leading media company in China, at an FCC club lunch session...
5 Jul 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Dean KARLAN
Professor of Economics, Yale University
Topic: Are anti-poverty programmes inevitably toxic?
Dean KARLAN examined what works and what fails in the fight against poverty around the world, at an FCC club lunch session on 05 July 2011.
Mr. KARLAN is the co-author of a new book, ...
28 Jun 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: John R. SLOSAR
Chief Executive, Cathay Pacific Airways
Topic: The Third Runway debate: facts and myths
Does Hong Kong need a third airport runway? Air traffic is increasing and takeoff and landing slots at busy times are already congested. But Hong Kong is also building a high-speed rail...
21 Jun 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Pavin CHACHAVALPONGPUN
Fellow, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore
Topic: Thailand’s elections : what next ?
Thailand will hold its national elections on July 3; this will be the second time after the 2006 military coup. The past 30 months under the Abhisit VEJJAJIVA administ...
20 Jun 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Duncan JEPSON
Director and Producer
Managing Editor of the Asia Literary Review
Topic: “Hope without Future?” - One family’s dream of a better life, One country’s hope for a better future
Mr. JEPSON will introduce the documentary (length: 85 minutes, language: English & Nepali) and share...
17 Jun 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: LIM Guan-eng
Chief Minister, Malaysia’s Democratic Action Party
Topic: Malaysia's Success Story?
Malaysia's Democratic Action Party (DAP) and its allies Parti Keadilan Rakyat and Parti Agama SeMalaysia had their best-ever result in the 2008 elections, defeating the ruling Barisan Nasiona...
15 Jun 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Joseph AMON
Director of Human Rights Watch’s Health and Human Rights Division
Topic: “My children have been poisoned” – China’s pead poisoning public health crisis
In China today hundreds of thousands of children suffer from permanent mental and physical disabilities as a result of lead ...
14 Jun 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Michael DUNNE
Author & President of Dunne & Company Limited
Topic: A Stunning - Yet Ever Fragile - Success: General Motors in China
In 2010, the American news program 60 Minutes planned to do a special that looked at why GM managed to thrive in China while the American icon went bankrupt...
9 Jun 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
The World Bank recently published a new report, Global Development Horizons 2011,that looks at the rise of emerging economies, the associated rising use of the Chinese renminbi in trade, and what the world economy is likely to be by the year 2025.
The report says that by 2025, six major emerging ...
