13 Sep 2017 12:30 PM
Who Really Cares About The Environment –
China or the U.S.?
Speakers: Robert Gottlieb, Founder of The Urban and Environmental Policy Institute, Occidental College
Simon Ng, Fellow & Former Chief Research Office, Civic Exchange
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2017
12:30PM FOR 12...
July 27, 2017
The instant-messenger app Sina Weibo has been redefined by media as a bellwether of popular opinion. Martin Choi looks at its influence with a study of a University of Hong Kong project that tracks the censorship of microblogging posts.
With the proliferation of Internet access in China, authori...
July 17, 2017
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Hong Kong, supports this statement from our colleagues at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China.
The FCCC is concerned by reports that foreign journalists in Shenyang covering the death of Nobel Peace laureate, Liu Xiaobo, have been harassed and intimidated b...
3 Jul 2017 12:30 PM
Hong Kong's Post-Handover Generation:
Searching for Identity in China's Shadow
Speaker: Ben Bland
South China Correspondent, The Financial Times
MONDAY, JULY 3, 2017
12:30PM FOR 12:45PM – LUNCH
1:15PM – ADDRESS
1ST FLOOR
Teenage activists turned politicians, mult...
May 27, 2017
After last year’s damning report by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) on working conditions, not much has changed. Correspondents, journalists and, more importantly, their local staff and sources continue to be harassed, threatened and jailed.
A BBC camera crew reporting in China ...
May 25, 2017
In 1997 Hong Kong was facing an uncertain future. Optimists clung to the promise of ‘jam tomorrow’ while pessimists took the first flight out. Twenty years on, realist Keith Richburg, says China’s growing involvement in Hong Kong’s affairs is here to stay, so get used to it.
The official handov...
April 3, 2017
A young woman who defected from North Korea made a tearful plea to FCC guests to help the “forgotten” people of her home country as she spoke at a club lunch on April 3.
Yeonmi Park recounted the ordeal that she endured as she escaped the dictatorship with her mother in 2007. The pair were traffi...
March 27, 2017
It seems that hardly a day passes that individuals using social media and websites in China are restricted, closed down or prosecuted, usually with some variation of “inciting subversion of state power” as the reason. China’s almost blanket control of the country’s Internet – and consequently all...
March 25, 2017
Hong Kong Remembers was certainly a night not to forget.
Members were entertained with live music on every floor, from The Red Stripes, Miriam Ma & Hippogroove, Mary Jane, and Crimes Against Pop; plus a special appearance from Michael (Thomas) Jackson.
Here, we bring you the best photo...
March 24, 2017
Charles Li, CEO of HKEX, has high hopes for Hong Kong as a top global trading centre. Photo: Sarah Graham
Hong Kong can thrive as a financial hub as long as it brings the world’s goods to China in order to unlock its wealth, according to Charles Li, who made the assertion as guest speaker at a cl...
