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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.
23 Feb 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Artem VOLYNETS CEO of En+ Group; Member of the board for EN+ Group, UC Rusal EuroSibEnergo Topic: “Russian Power fuelling Chinese and global growth” As China’s economy expands rapidly, its dependence on power generation increases its reliance on the use of fossil fuels such as oil and ga...
22 Feb 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Murong Xuecun Author Topic: Absurdities of China’s censorship system Celebrated for his darkly funny novels of contemporary urban Chinese life, Murong Xuecun had prepared to use the occasion of receiving the People’s Literature Prize in China to make a speech calling for a more relaxed a...
10 Feb 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Humphrey HAWKSLEY BBC Foreign Correspondent Topic: “HELLO, GOODBYE - AND HAVE A NICE LIFE - with all conversations in between on how Bin LADEN and Steve JOBS changed the world” Mr. Humphrey HAWKSLEY has been invited to Hong Kong, courtesy of IQ2. From Africa to Latin America to the Middl...
24 Jan 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Jing ULRICH Managing Director & Chairman, China Equities & Commodities, J.P. Morgan Topic: China in 2011: cultivating sustainable growth Jing will discuss China’s rapidly changing policy environment and examine potential risks: 1) How will policymakers address the risk of rising inflatio...
18 Jan 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Peter G de KRASSEL Author and analyst on Sino-US relations Topic: Feasting Dragon, Starving Eagle Mr de KRASSEL introduces his new book: Feasting Dragon, Starving Eagle. In his view, through its misguided foreign and fiscal policies and alliances, America has allowed China to prosper at ...
3 Jan 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Norman PEARLSTINE Chief Content Officer, Bloombery L.P Chairman, Bloomberg BusinesWeek Topic: The U.S. political scene and its implications for Asia - 2011 and beyond Norman PEARLSTINE joined Bloomberg L.P. in June 2008 as Chief Content Officer, a newly-created position. In this role, Pe...
15 Dec 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Club book launch: An Eastern Saga An Eastern Saga is a memoir of Marvin FARKAS’s life in Hong Kong and Asia in the 1950s and 1960s. The book describes Marvin’s experiences of events ranging from the Malaysian independence to the early years of the Vietnam War, as well as encounters with key figur...
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...
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...
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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