May 20, 2020
Lord Chris Patten, Hong Kong’s last governor, urged the city's protesters not to lose heart but to continue their fight with dignity.
Chris Patten, the last governor of Hong Kong, talks during an FCC webinar on May 20, 2020.
The former chairman of Britain’s Conservative Party was speaking duri...
20 May 2020 06:00 PM
ONLINE ZOOM EVENT
What’s in Store for Hong Kong’s Future?
SPEAKER
The Rt. Hon Lord Patten of Barnes CH
Former Governor of Hong Kong
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
6:00pm on Zoom
Hong Kong politics is entering a potentially perilous time, as the COVID-19 pandemic appear...
May 13, 2020
The modern Olympic Games have been cancelled three times, in World War One and World War Two. This time, the coronavirus has postponed them. Julian Ryall reports from Tokyo on how the sports media are coping
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announces the Olympics postponement on March 24
Ser...
May 7, 2020
On 20 March, the FCC wrote to the Hon Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor and the then Director of Immigration, Erick Tsang Kwok-wai, requesting answers to questions around the expulsion of some U.S. journalists from China and their visa status in Hong Kong. This has serious implications for press freedom...
May 6, 2020
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
People’s Choice Photo Award Winning Photo:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nFjg4DN2qk6pqgntz-EitNLu2_Nfs5Pi
WINNERS OF 2020 HUMAN RIGHTS PRESS AWARDS ANNOUNCED
HONG KONG, May 6, 2020 — In a year of protests in Hong Kong, a sudden lockdown in Kashmi...
6 May 2020 12:30 PM
ONLINE ZOOM EVENT
Press Freedom in the Pandemic: Are Governments Using
COVID-19 to Quash Dissent?
SPEAKERS
Maria Ressa
CEO, Executive Director, Rappler.com
Mohammed Hanif
Journalist, author
Hélène Franchineau
Independent Video Journalist
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
12:30pm on Z...
29 Apr 2020 12:30 PM
ONLINE ZOOM EVENT
Past the Peak? What Comes Next in Hong Kong’s
Battle with COVID-19
SPEAKER
Professor Ben Cowling
Division Head of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
School of Public Health, the University of Hong Kong
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
12:30pm on Zoom
Hong...
April 22, 2020
From taking care of their own health to making sure they get their facts straight in the middle of chaos, reporters on the frontline of the coronavirus story in Hong Kong see no let-up in their workload. Elizabeth Cheung reports.
A passenger is surrounded by the media while showing off her qua...
April 21, 2020
The International Press Institute (IPI) released a statement on April 20, 2020, condemning the arrest of Next Media group founder, Jimmy Lai.
“Alarm bells should be ringing loudly over the arrest of Jimmy Lai”, IPI Deputy Director Scott Griffen said. “His detention is a sign that while the world...
April 20, 2020
A virus that began in China is now sweeping the world. Streets are emptied as countries go into lockdown and travel is grinding to a halt. The death toll from coronavirus, or COVID-19, has passed 53,000 and the number of cases had just gone over a million at the time of going to press. The Corres...
