April 7, 2017
Ian Stewart, father, grandfather, foreign correspondent, FCC president, author, China watcher, adventurer and authority on Southeast Asian politics and culture, passed away peacefully in Sydney recently.
Ian spent a total of 36 years working as a Foreign Correspondent and author in Southeast Asi...
March 28, 2017
Photographer Matjaz Tančič spoke about his “3DPRK” project which involves taking 3D portraits of ordinary people as they go about their daily life in North Korea at a club dinner on February 13.
He also presented a 20-minute video documentary about the making of this project which took months o...
March 28, 2017
There is one sure way for an individual journalist to make money online: lie through your teeth to an audience that is not interested in facts and welcomes these “alternative” facts as the new gospel: fake news is good news, if it suits you.
The controversial LibertyWritersNews site illustrates...
March 26, 2017
Journalism as it is conventionally understood - the printed word mediated by a pantheon of reporters and editors, the electronic media often regulated and constrained by law over content and ownership - has been besieged during the past few decades by technology, ideology and costs.
Alternative ...
March 25, 2017
The Journalist and Media Studies Centre and The Correspondent are putting together a programme where students from the JMSC will report on an issue related to journalism and media under the guidance of JMSC’s faculty and editors from the magazine.
“It’s an exciting opportunity for our students t...
March 24, 2017
At a time when China is tightening the screws on Hong Kong’s freedoms, US senators Marco Rubio and Tom Cotton have introduced the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act that “establishes punitive measures against government officials in Hong Kong or mainland China who are responsible for suppre...
March 23, 2017
What a life. What a larger than life character. In order to get to grips with the immense scale of the life and times of Clare Hollingworth and the earth-shaking events that punctuated her 105 years of life, it is worth recalling that she was born on October 10, 1911.
That was the very day a rev...
March 22, 2017
Writers from Hong Kong will contribute to an anthology marking the 20th anniversary of the Hong Kong Handover this year.
PEN Hong Kong plans to publish an anthology of non-fiction essays, short stories, poems and cartoons by some of Hong Kong’s brightest literary and creative minds to mark the 2...
March 22, 2017
Mike Simms, veteran editor with a career that spanned over five decades in five countries, died at 73 in early January.
Always the gruff gentleman, Mike could often be found holding up the Main Bar at the end of a late shift sharing his stories and strong opinions with the likes of Greg Torode a...
3 Apr 2017 12:30 PM
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s
Journey to Freedom
Speaker: Yeonmi Park
Author & Human Rights Activist
MONDAY, APRIL 3, 2017
12:30PM FOR 12:45PM – LUNCH
1:15PM – ADDRESS
1ST FLOOR
Yeonmi Park is a North Korean defector and human rights activist who e...
