November 2, 2021
While COP26 took place in Glasgow, Laurence McCook of WWF Hong Kong, KPMG China partner Irene Chu and conservationist Dr. Billy Hau spoke at the FCC on November 1. During this lunchtime panel, the environmental experts spelled out Hong Kong’s ecological toll and outlined its role in creating a mo...
October 29, 2021
The Hong Kong handover negotiations between Britain and China were fraught with tension, anxiety and distrust according to former foreign correspondent Michael Sheridan, author of The Gate to China: A New History of the People’s Republic & Hong Kong. In a Zoom talk hosted by the Foreign Corre...
1 Nov 2021 12:30 PM — 02:00 PM
LUNCH TALK
Our House Is on Fire: Climate Change and Biodiversity in Hong Kong
PANEL
Monday, November 1, 2021
12:30pm for 12:45pm – Lunch
1:10pm – Address
First Floor
As world leaders prepare to ga...
October 22, 2021
One likes football, another motorbikes, and there’s a keen fisherman, a passionate golfer and an avid hiker: but all of our new members seem to relish good food and drink. They’ll fit right in.
David Armitage
Although my days of active sport parachuting are long behind me, I c...
October 22, 2021
In the first of a new series, Kate Springer invites five Governors to wax poetic about all things FCC.
Our new Board of Governors took their seats in May, and on top of their usual tasks, they have the added responsibility of steering the FCC through a particularly challenging time. In the pas...
October 22, 2021
Chosen from a competitive pool of candidates, Hillary Leung and Amy Sood have been named the 2021-2022 Clare Hollingworth Fellows. Ed Peters shares their stories.
Somewhere in the dustier files of the British security services lies a report from early March 1939 on the activities of a fresh-fa...
October 21, 2021
A group of accomplished Sinologists chronicle the experiences of 10 people to trace the CCP’s transformation. It’s an ambitious read, but Mark Jones says the authors nailed it.
Few institutions in history have mounted a more sustained attack on individualism than the Chinese Communist Party (CCP...
October 21, 2021
By Michael Somers
Geoffrey Vincent Somers, who spent many years gracing the pages of Hong Kong newspapers – whether making the news at the punchy tabloid The Star, spinning it at the Government Information Service (GIS) or commenting on it as an independent writer – died on 13 August at the age ...
October 21, 2021
Ed Peters swaps quips with Harry Harrison, who exhibited a collection of intriguing illustrations at the FCC in September.
For the past 20 years, Briton Harry Harrison’s cartoons have unfailingly been one of the best bits in the South China Morning Post. To celebrate the publication ...
October 7, 2021
Dear FCC Members,
For this column, I would like to give a shout-out and a thank you to all the interpreters, fixers, drivers and office assistants around the world who regularly risk their lives to help foreign correspondents get the story. They rarely get the bylines and the glory, but these ...
