21 Jan 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Paul MIDLER
Author
Topic: "Poorly Made in China"
Product failures have been making headlines for over two years, prompting many to ask along the way: Why China? Mainland manufacturers have their own quality control staff, and yet importers have felt compelled to send in their own inspect...
20 Jan 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Barry WAIN
Author / Writer-in-Residence at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Topic: Mahathir's legacy haunts Malaysia
Mr. WAIN feels that six years and two prime ministers after Mahathir MOHAMAD retired, Malaysia is mired in an array of problems bequeathed by the country’s longest...
18 Jan 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Cameron DUECK
Journalist / Yachtsman
Topic: Voyage of discovery in Canada's Arctic
In the summer of 2009, Mr. DUECK led a sailing expedition through the elusive Northwest Passage to see first hand how Canada’s Inuit are coping with climate change.
With only four crew and the ticking cloc...
11 Jan 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. Philip S. CARMICHAEL
President Haier Asia-Pacific
Topic: Can China develop a global brand?
Dr. CARMICHAEL will share his experiences and insights into the challenges and obstacles facing Chinese companies in their bid to become global brands.
China has evolved into the world’s manufa...
10 Dec 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speakers:
Albert HO
Chairman, China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group
Eva PILS
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Topic: A Sword and A Shield: China’s Human Rights Lawyers
Albert HO will talk about the ideas that inspired the authors of this book, published by t...
9 Dec 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speakers: Ronald ARCULLI
Chairman of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited
Topic: Stock Exchanges: Roles and Challenges
Ronald ARCULLI finds it refreshing that after years of serving as a platform for capital raising by corporates, it took a global financial and economic crisis to highlight th...
7 Dec 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Carl ROBINSON
Correspondent / Author
Topic: Mongolia — Land of Amazing Diversity
The popular image of Mongolia is a vast and featureless landscape of grassy steppe and sandy deserts sprawled across the top of Asia between China and Russia. But the reality is much more diverse – and invit...
3 Dec 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Giles CHANCE
Visiting Professor, Guanghua Business School, Beijing University
Topic: China and the Credit Crisis: the emergence of a New World Order
The credit crisis has greatly weakened the West's economic and financial supremacy and accelerated the shift of power from the West to the ...
26 Nov 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Patrick HENNESSEY
Former Captain, British Army / Author / Law Student
Topic: The Afghanistan War: A British Soldier's Perspective
For the first time in a generation British soldiers are once again fighting at close quarters, coming under sustained and vicious firepower, losing friends in...
12 Nov 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Sophie RICHARDSON
Advocacy Director of Human Rights Watch’s Asia Division
Topic: An Alleyway in Hell – China's "Black Jails"
Chinese government agencies maintain numerous secret, unlawful detention facilities known as "black jails" in which agents hold citizens incommunicado for days and...
