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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.
12 Oct 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
“Securities research” is invariably defined by its content and that content is increasingly under the scrutiny of regulators, regardless of whether you work for a broker, a bank, or even a website. Mr. Bolland will provide insight into who might get caught up in this new world, and what they must...
5 Oct 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Charles LI Chief Executive, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited Topic: Hong Kong's role in the internationalization of the renminbi Controlled internationalization of the renminbi is a landmark experiment. It has become one of the hottest topics in Hong Kong’s finance industry as it...
28 Sep 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. CHEN Xiwo Writer, litigant and scholar of comparative literature at Fuzhou Normal University Topic: From the front lines in the battle against censorship In June 2007, the Fuzhou office of China Customs intercepted the galley proof of author CHEN Xiwo’s book that had been mailed to h...
22 Sep 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Matthew CRABBE Author / Co-founder of Access Asia Topic: Fat China: expanding waistlines change a nation A disastrous side effect of China’s booming economy - along with pollution and a growing income gap - is the effect of obesity on the fragile healthcare system. Rates of obesity are e...
13 Sep 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Professor Madhav NALAPAT UNESCO Peace Chair at Manipal University, India Topic: Threat of Islamic Fundamentalism to Asia Asia, home to the major world religions, has become the endemic focus of Wahabbist-Khomeinist extremism, often confused with Islamic fundamentalism. Today, clusters of...
18 Aug 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Amanda BENNETT Co-Chairman Pulitzer Prize Board Topic: Investigative Journalism in a Globalised World Investigative journalism is under threat. It's the most expensive form of news gathering in a time of newspaper budget cuts and journalist layoffs, both in the U.S. and around the world....
4 Aug 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Professor Sheila CORONEL Toni Stabile Professor of Professional Practice in Investigative Journalism, Columbia University Topic: Can Noynoy AQUINO Fight Corruption in the Philippines? Benigno AQUINO III was sworn in as the President of the Philippines on June 30, after a landslide electi...
3 Aug 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Sam CHAMBERS Author / Journalist Topic: Oil on Water Out of sight, out of mind – the uncomfortable reality. That’s the general public’s reaction to the movement of oil around the world’s oceans. Or at least it was until the Deepwater Horizon incident. This vital supply chain is constantl...
24 Jul 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: James FENTON Poet Topic: From journalism to poetry This event is co-hosted by the FCC and the British Council in partnership with "TDC / Hong Kong Book Fair". Mr. FENTON is one of the most acclaimed poets of his generation, and many of his well known poems demonstrate his interest in wor...
13 Jul 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Christopher DILLON Writer / Entrepreneur Topic: Japanese Real Estate: bargain or black hole? Japanese property prices have plummeted since the late 1980s, when the land under the Imperial Palace in Tokyo was reportedly worth more than California. You can now buy a house on an acre of lan...
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