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29 Jun 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: LEE Cheuk-yan
Legislative Councilor & General Secretary of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions
Topic: Independent unionism in China: mission impossible?
Chinese workers striking for better pay and elected representation have shocked the world.
Are we witnessing history being made...
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23 Jun 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Pavin CHACHAVALPONGPUN
Author & Fellow, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore
Topic: When Thaksin ruled the World: reviewing his botched diplomacy
Pavin CHACHAVALPONGPUN thinks Prime Minister, Thaksin transformed Thailand’s international role from one of obscurity into a kind o...
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21 Jun 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Simon YOUNG
Associate Professor, Director of the Centre of Comparative and Public Law
Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong / Barrister
Topic: Electing Hong Kong's Chief Executive in 2012
Focusing too much on numbers (e.g. 2012-2016-2017-2020, 1200 votes, 70 Legislative Council seats, ...
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18 Jun 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Audrey EU
Leader of the Civic Party
Topic: The morning after the debate - what next for political reform in Hong Kong
On Thursday 17th June Hong Kong experienced the first televised debate between the Chief Executive Donald TSANG and Audrey EU, one of his leading opponents, on the subjec...
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10 Jun 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Robert SUTTER
Visiting Professor of Asian Studies, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Topic: China's Rise in Asian and World Affairs
Mr. SUTTER will examine China’s rise in Asia and will aim to show that China remains encumbered and far from having the leading position. His...
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8 Jun 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Stephen KING
Group Chief Economist & Global Head of Economics and Asset Allocation Research, HSBC
Topic: Losing control: the emerging threats to western prosperity
As the economic giants of Asia and elsewhere have awakened, Western leaders have increasingly struggled to maintain economic...
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7 Jun 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Aidan FOSTER-CARTER
Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Leeds University
Consultant, writer and broadcaster on Korea
Topic: South Korea's transformation: a new global power?
Still bizarrely classified by some as an ‘emerging’ market, South Korea last year exported more goods than the UK. Th...
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3 Jun 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Edward STOKES
Founder Director, The Photographic Heritage Foundation
Topic: Hong Kong nature landscapes: of what value?
Is Hong Kong merely an urban and economic phenomenon? This illustrated talk will offer one photographer’s answer.
The Photographic Heritage Foundation was launched at t...
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2 Jun 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Mark O’NEILL
Veteran China Correspondent and Journalist
Topic: The Biggest NGO in the Chinese World: the Tzu Chi Foundation
Mr. O'NEILL will share the story behind the Tzu Chi Foundation, the largest NGO in the Chinese world, with 10 million members, branches in nearly 50 countries and w...
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1 Jun 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Jerome COHEN
NYU Law Professor; Senior Fellow for Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations
Counsel at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
Topic: How to improve China's soft power - and America's?
"Soft Power" depends on more than Confucius Institutes. A nation's reputation for justi...