January 2, 2018
The Charity Committee’s goal is to go beyond simply providing funds for the good causes the Club supports. Club members are encouraged to give voluntary time, and to become actively involved in the cause. To benefit our current charity, China Coast Community, an elderly care home, the FCC organis...
December 18, 2017
Two American correspondents who were detained in China got the word out via Twitter.
Canada’s Globe and Mail Asia correspondent Nathan VanderKlippe used Twitter to spread word of his detention.
The Asia correspondent for Canada’s Globe and Mail Nathan VanderKlippe and Voice of America reporter...
3 Jan 2018 12:30 PM
TALK
Bitcoin in China -
Past, Present, and Future
SPEAKER
Bobby Lee
Co-Founder and CEO, BTCC
Wednesday, January 3, 2018
12:30pm for 12:45pm – Lunch
1:15pm – Address
1st Floor
China's digital currency space has been changing at dizzying speed. Jus...
December 12, 2017
The war for China’s wallet is being won through consumerism as industries like manufacturing and finance find it increasingly difficult - and costly - to do business there, according to the founder of a top market research group.
Shaun Rein gave insights into how to do business in China at the...
12 Dec 2017 08:00 AM
TALK
The War for China's Wallet
SPEAKER
Shaun Rein
Founder of China Market Research Group/Author
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
8:00am – Continental Breakfast
8:10am – Address
1st Floor
Post-financial crisis, China has emerged as the largest or seco...
November 27, 2017
China’s One Child Policy will likely leave the world’s second largest economy with a workforce shortage as its ageing population grows, according to a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of a book on the subject.
Author Mei Fong discussed the implications of China's One Child Policy a...
28 Nov 2017 12:30 PM
TALK
The Thucydides Trap:
China's Rise and What it Means for World Peace
SPEAKER
Paddy Ashdown
Member, House of Lords
Former Leader, the Liberal Democrats
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
12:30pm for 12:45pm – Lunch
1:15pm – Address
1st Floor
P...
27 Nov 2017 12:30 PM
TALK
China’s One Child Policy:
Past, Present and Future
SPEAKER
Mei Fong
Pulitzer-Prize winning Journalist and Author
Monday, November 27, 2017
12:30pm for 12:45pm – Lunch
1:15pm – Address
1st Floor
China’s controversial one-child policy has been p...
November 3, 2017
Hong Kong is feeling the creeping hand of censorship from President Xi Jinping as he exercises a tightening of control over the city and mainland China, said expert Jeffrey Wasserstrom.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom spoke about how censorship works in China. Photo: Sarah Graham/FCC
The disappearance of ...
October 26, 2017
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Hong Kong, is concerned at the unexplained barring of several major international news organisations from the most important political event in China in the last five years.
The BBC, the Financial Times, the Economist, the New York Times and the Guardian were ...
