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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.
6 Oct 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Tom CURLEY Topic: The way forward: new opportunities for global news in the digital age Tom CURLEY will discuss the crisis facing the global news industry and show how the changing media environment provides opportunities to allow companies to continue supporting authoritative, original ...
5 Oct 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Hon. Bill ENGLISH
24 Sep 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Martin JACQUES Senior Fellow – IDEAS institute, London School of Economics Columnist – the Guardian Topic: When China rules the World Until recently the idea of modernity was synonymous with being western. There was a widespread belief that there was only one version of modernity, namely...
23 Sep 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Nicole KEMPTON Author / Washington Director of the Laogai Research Foundation Topic: Laogai: The Machinery of Repression in China To coincide with the 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China and a new book under the same title as this lunch, Ms. KEMPTON will take an in-depth l...
22 Sep 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Jake VAN DER KAMP Columnist / Author Topic: The Twelfth Fairy FCC treasurer Jake VAN DER KAMP, having walked away last year from his daily financial column in the South China Morning Post, is still regularly perched behind his laptop in the northeast corner of the main bar and still writ...
16 Sep 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Benedict ROGERS Author and Human Rights Campaigner East Asia Team Leader at Christian Solidarity Worldwide Topic: Burma’s crimes against humanity: a test-case for the responsibility to protect Benedict ROGERS has travelled almost thirty times to Burma and its borderlands. He will give an...
18 Aug 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Dr Philip NITSCHKE (PhD MD) Director, Exit International Topic: Euthanasia in Asia: the need for an exit plan Can the elderly – as well as the seriously ill – be lawfully entitled to a peaceful death at a time of their choosing? Dr. NITSCHKE will share his views on the controversial issu...
23 Jul 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: John GREENWOOD Chief Economist, Invesco, London Topic: Emerging from the Canyon:Asian Prospects in 2009-2010 John GREENWOOD will explain why the current recession is different from many of its post-war predecessors, and what this implies for the developed economies, as well as for econom...
20 Jul 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Jonathan LASH President, World Resources Institute Topic: Climate Change – U.S. Policy and China On June 26, 2009 the U.S. House passed a climate bill that would literally change the face of America - its factories, power sources and buildings, landscapes and employment patterns. The bil...
16 Jul 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Edward STOKES Founder Director, The Photographic Heritage Foundation Topic: Asia’s historical photographs: publishing the region’s hidden gems Mr. STOKES’s photo talk will reflect on a three-year journey to create The Photographic Heritage Foundation, and why photographs from the past en...
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