April 17, 2020
Last month, we wrote to the Hon Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor and the 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, which have serious implications for press freedom in the c...
March 12, 2020
FCC to Reopen March 13, Announces Enhanced Travel Disclosure Plans
The FCC will reopen as scheduled on Friday 13th March. The deep cleaning of the club has been completed and we would like to thank members for their support and understanding during this period. The Club looks forward to welcomin...
17 Mar 2020 12:30 PM
LUNCH PANEL
Reporting on the New Front Line for Journalists in Hong Kong –
the COVID-19 Outbreak
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
12:30pm for 12:45pm – Lunch
1:15pm – Panel
1st Floor
After the safety issues surrounding the coverage of the Hong Kong protests, our panel will discus...
February 26, 2020
Invitation for Tender:
Book Editor/ Project Manager
Contract period: Approximately 6 months
Deadline for tender: 31 March 2020
Role Description
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club (FCC) is seeking a temporary Editor to act as Project Manager for a commemora...
February 26, 2020
The measures introduced in Hong Kong to contain the coronavirus outbreak are working because the city learned its lesson from severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
That was the consensus of a panel of guests who discussed the physical and mental challenges facing Hong Kong since the outbreak ...
26 Feb 2020 12:30 PM
LUNCH PANEL
COVID-19: How to Deal with the Physical and Mental
Challenges Facing Hong Kong
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
12:30pm for 12:45pm – Lunch
1:15pm – Panel
1st Floor
The world has been scrambling to thwart the spread of a new coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, C...
February 19, 2020
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China expresses its deep concern and strong condemnation over China’s decision to cancel the visas of three foreign correspondents from the Wall Street Journal’s Beijing bureau, in direct retaliation for an opinion article published by that newspaper, by an aut...
20 Feb 2020 12:30 PM
LUNCH PANEL
Beyond the Protests: How Can We Rebuild Hong Kong?
Thursday, February 20, 2020
12:30pm for 12:45pm – Lunch
1:15pm – Panel
1st Floor
Since June, the world has watched as the Hong Kong protests sparked by the extradition bill have morphed into a wider anti-government m...
February 11, 2020
FCC member Angus Forsyth has been described as having “the eye of one of the greatest living collectors of Chinese jade”. Here he talks with his old friend Jonathan Sharp about his latest book
Angus Forsyth
When I first met Angus Forsyth in Hong Kong in the early 1970s, he collected Mao badges...
February 10, 2020
One in every four of us will struggle with mental health issues at some time, and FCC members Nic and Becky Gaunt decided to raise awareness of the issue in a creative and unique way. Kate Whitehead reports.
Andrew Work
Fine art photographer Nic Gaunt and his wife Becky are hands down the club...