December 20, 2016
A round-up of the latest incidents involving media organisations around the region.
A still from a video showing HKFP reporter Stanley Leung being surrounded by protesters.
Hong Kong journalist attacked by protesters. A journalist with Hong Kong Free Press website was attacked by protesters wh...
December 15, 2016
By Anthony Paul, former FCC president and former editor-at-large Asia Pacific for Fortune magazine
Roy Rowan in Saigon in 1975.
Wars are usually long periods of boredom punctuated by brief episodes of sheer terror. When the fighting ended in Saigon in April 1975, most of the overworked corresp...
December 15, 2016
Hong Kong is once more home to a local branch of the international PEN organisation for writers, writes Vaudine England.
Some of the founding members of PEN Hong Kong in September 2016. Photo: PEN
Few writers may be aware of the role of Marilyn Monroe in the fight for freedom of creative expre...
December 14, 2016
Hughes MD-500 helicopters perform a fly-by during the first Wonsan Friendship Air Festival in Wonsan on September 24, 2016. AFP PHOTO / Ed Jones
Agence France-Presse’s new bureau in Pyongyang, which opened in September, is already churning out the stories.
The bureau, which was officially opene...
December 13, 2016
The AFP team check out the work of local artists in a Pyongyang park. Photo: AFP
Agence France-Presse’s new bureau in Pyongyang, which opened in September, is already churning out the stories.
The bureau, which was officially opened by Emmanuel Hoog, the group’s chief executive and chairman, so...
December 12, 2016
Dennis Kwok and Ronny Tong talked about the reverberations of Beijing's interpretation of the Basic Law at the FCC
The record number of seats won by pro-democracy candidates in elections to select the committee that will choose Hong Kong’s next Chief Executive is one of the implications of Beijin...
December 6, 2016
The Red Stripes performing at Bert's. Photo: Wyng Chow
Recarpeted, repainted, and for better or worse now adorned with video screens, Hong Kong’s best jazz club is back in business.
There’s nothing like having something unavailable for a while to help you appreciate it properly, and the excelle...
November 30, 2016
Professor Huang Ningsheng talked about Guangdong's bid to become an innovation hub
Investment in Guangdong’s scientific research and development is expected to take up 2.58% of the province’s total GDP for 2016, according to the Director-General of its department of science and technology.
It is ...
November 28, 2016
Chris Patten arrives at the FCC
Here's a round-up of the Q&A with Chris Patten following his talk at the FCC on November 25.
PATTEN ON INDIA
Look, I don’t mean any disrespect to my own country or to France, speaking as a member of the Legion d’honneur, or to China or to Hong Kong, but I happ...
November 26, 2016
"The former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney was kicked out of government when his approval ratings were as I recall slightly lower than the prevailing level of interest so he wasn’t terribly popular when he left office and he tells himself a story about somebody going up to the front gate ...
