May 16, 2016
Hong Kong is a global finance centre, and as such employs a good number of financial journalists. David Webb is not one of them. He is an activist, not a reporter. But he seems to break a lot of stories. Cathy Holcombe reports.
When Webb first burst into the watchdog scene, in the late 1990s, I ...
May 16, 2016
Sir David Tang gave an amusing, erudite and at times inspirational speech before a full house at the FCC on what has happened to Hong Kong, where it might go and what needs to be done.
David Tang fired both barrels at the performance of the Chief Executive CY Leung in his latest policy address a...
23 Apr 2016 12:00 AM
On April 23, the FCC proudly hosted a journalism conference, ``Covering News in the Era of Digital Disruption.” Our club welcomed 180 participants, including more than 30 speakers.
A team of 11 undergraduate students from HKU's Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JMSC) covered the conference. S...
25 Apr 2016 12:30 PM — 02:30 PM
Monday, April 25, 2016
7:00pm - Dinner
1st Floor
This controversial independent film was released in December 2015. It consists of five thought-provoking shorts imagining what Hong Kong would be like ten years in the future, with human rights and freedoms gradually diminishing. The film seeks to...
April 5, 2016
The following is a Visa Survey 2015 Findings issued by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (Beijing) for its members. The FCC (Hong Kong) relays it as a service to the media community; any views expressed are not necessarily shared by the FCC (Hong Kong).
FCCC Visa Survey 2015 Find...
March 11, 2016
The following is a speech Chinese journalist and author Yang Jisheng, 75, was planning to deliver at Harvard. Mr. Yang was awarded the Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism by the university's Nieman fellows. He was barred from travel to the United States to receive the ...
February 24, 2016
The viral Chinese pollution documentary 'Under the Dome' has disappeared behind a wall of, no not smog – censorship. Created by former CCTV anchor and newswoman Chai Jing this documentary has been compared to Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth.
Greening of Asia
Asia, particularly China, is an env...
February 24, 2016
Failure to Explain Missing Booksellers Undermines Hong Kong Freedoms
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Hong Kong, is concerned that there has yet to be a full and satisfactory explanation of the detention of five Hong Kong booksellers by mainland Chinese authorities despite recent demands and co...
7 Jan 2016 12:30 PM — 03:00 PM
Speaker: Paul Harris, Barrister & Senior Counsel
Founder, the Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor
Crowds and riots were as old as humanity, but peaceful demonstrations were fairly new in history.
Mr. Harris, one of the world’s leading experts on the history of demonstrations, explained how the pe...
February 2, 2016
The now ubiquitous yellow umbrellas surged around the Hong Kong government offices to mark the first anniversary of the pro-democracy Occupy movement which shut down central Hong Kong for 79 days last year.
While Occupy failed to achieve its goals, the silent rally on September 28 showed that p...
