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2 Dec 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: John MICKLETHWAIT
Editor-in-Chief, The Economist
Topic: “The Economist and mass intelligence”
Increasingly the print media is linked with declining newspapers, well-known magazines being sold for a few dollars and journalists being sacked. Some think the only way to survive is to dumb do...
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29 Nov 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Gordon CROVITZ
Co-founder, Journalism Online
Topic: "Can Journalism Make Money On The Web?"
It has now been 15 years since news publishers launched their Web sites. At that time, publishers had a hard choice: Should they make their Web sites free or put them behind pay walls? Most publis...
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23 Nov 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Basil PAO
Photographer / Author
Topic: Great landscapes of the World
Shan Shui - Mountain and Water - is the term for the school of Chinese landscape paintings in a spontaneous ink-wash style. Basil PAO has used the three principles of Shan Shui painting - paths, threshold and heart - to...
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22 Nov 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Anthony BOLTON
Author / Columnist / President of Investments, Fidelity Investment Managers
Topic: “China and Global Markets”
Almost a year ago, Anthony BOLTON announced his intention to postpone retirement and relocate to Hong Kong to manage a China fund for UK investors. At the time, he...
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16 Nov 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: John SAYER
Director General, Oxfam Hong Kong
Topic: China's unsung heroes
Oxfam Hong Kong routinely works with farmers, villagers and migrant workers on rural development and job-training programmes. In a recent book, China Voices, the NGO profiled various groups and individuals whose da...
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11 Nov 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Frank DIKOTTER
Chair Professor of Humanities, University of Hong Kong
Topic: MAO’s Great Famine - the history of China’s most devastating catastrophe
"Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell." Frank DIKOTTER shares his riveting chronicle of the Great Leap Forward, using previous...
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10 Nov 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Guest:
Lord Peter MANDELSON
Host:
Steve VINES
Political Commentator and Broadcaster
Topic: Inside New Labour
Together, Tony BLAIR, Gordon BROWN and Peter MANDELSON were the founding architects of Britain's New Labour party. Now, Peter MANDELSON, one of the most controversial politicians of modern...
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8 Nov 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Jenny BOWEN
Founder & CEO, Half the Sky
Topic: China’s orphans today
How many children are still in China’s orphanages? What’s changed in recent years? How is the trafficking situation?
The Chinese government estimates it has 583,000 orphans with about 57,000 living in 290 children’s wel...
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27 Oct 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Jeremy O’GRADY
Editor-in-Chief, The Week (London)
Topic: Making of news and views in the 21st Century
Much of Jeremy O'GRADY's career has been spent at he sharp end of shaping public opinion in the UK. He served on the British Board of Film Classification for a decade, before morphing in...
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15 Oct 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: David SCHLESINGER
Editor-in-Chief, Reuters News, Thomson Reuters
Topic: News in the digital world: whither journalism and journalists?
“Securities research” is invariably defined by its content and that content is increasingly under the scrutiny of regulators, regardless of whether you w...