August 6, 2020
The Foreign Correspondents' Club, Hong Kong is aware of recent examples of delays involving the issuing of visas to foreign journalists in Hong Kong, as well as suggestions by the Chinese government that more foreign journalists could face repercussions in response to U.S. actions. The FCC calls ...
7 Aug 2020 08:00 AM
ONLINE BREAKFAST ZOOM EVENT
A Conversation with Noam Chomsky on Trump, Capitalism, and
the U.S. Role in the New Cold War
SPEAKER
NOAM CHOMSKY
Laureate Professor of Linguistics, The University of Arizona
Friday, August 7, 2020
8:00am HKT on Zoom
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July 28, 2020
By any standards this has been an extraordinary year for Jessie Pang and Mary Hui to be the FCC’s first Clare Hollingworth Fellows. Here they share some thoughts on protests, the pandemic and press freedom.
Marco Leung, 35, unfurling banners against the now withdrawn extradition bill on the roo...
July 23, 2020
Photographs and words by Nicole Tung
The Hong Kong-born photojournalist and 2018 recipient of the James Foley Award for Conflict Reporting, Nicole Tung says: “I’d say the increased targeting of journalists around the world makes this profession much more difficult, and I have either had to stop...
July 17, 2020
At least six journalist members of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan have resigned in a row over its board’s “craven collapse” to the Tokyo Organising Committee for the 2020 Olympic Games after it complained about the cover design of the FCCJ’s monthly magazine.
President Khaldon Azhari...
July 16, 2020
Former U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton told an FCC webinar that Hong Kong still enjoys broad support in the United States even as the city’s freedoms are being eroded, and that the Trump administration should follow the lead of other Western countries and open the doors to Hongkongers ...
20 Jul 2020 07:00 PM
ONLINE ZOOM EVENT
How to Cope with a World in Turmoil: The Case for
Global Cooperation
SPEAKER
JEFFREY SACHS
Director of the Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University
Monday, July 20, 2020
7:00pm HKT on Zoom
The world is currently in the midst of four signific...
14 Jul 2020 12:30 PM
LUNCH PANEL
Can Hong Kong’s Economy Survive Without Tourism Dollars?
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
12:30pm for 12:45pm – Lunch
1:10pm – Panel
1st Floor
Hong Kong's economy was already reeling amid the political unrest and then COVID-19 hit, shutting out foreign visitors and tour...
July 10, 2020
Rappler CEO Maria Ressa and international human rights lawyer, Caoilfhionn Gallagher, have expressed shock at new national security legislation imposed on Hong Kong.
FCC First Vice President, Eric Wishart, interviews Maria Ressa and Caoilfhionn Gallagher on July 9.
Joining an FCC webinar on he...
July 8, 2020
Politics took on a different hue this year and the colour of someone’s loyalty determined where they ate, met and shopped. Photographer May James and student journalist Lauren F. Lau report
Restaurant’s clear ‘blue’ message to customers
Hong Kong has always been a vibrant city, the “Pearl of t...
