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1 Feb 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Thomas ABRAHAM Director, Public Health Communication Programme University of Hong Kong Topic: Inside the Swine Flu pandemic Mr. ABRAHAM spent the last year at the World Health Organization in Geneva, and was head of news in the Director General’s office when the ‘pandemic’ broke out in A...
21 Jan 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Paul MIDLER Author Topic: "Poorly Made in China" Product failures have been making headlines for over two years, prompting many to ask along the way: Why China? Mainland manufacturers have their own quality control staff, and yet importers have felt compelled to send in their own inspect...
18 Jan 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Cameron DUECK Journalist / Yachtsman Topic: Voyage of discovery in Canada's Arctic In the summer of 2009, Mr. DUECK led a sailing expedition through the elusive Northwest Passage to see first hand how Canada’s Inuit are coping with climate change. With only four crew and the ticking cloc...
11 Jan 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. Philip S. CARMICHAEL President Haier Asia-Pacific Topic: Can China develop a global brand? Dr. CARMICHAEL will share his experiences and insights into the challenges and obstacles facing Chinese companies in their bid to become global brands. China has evolved into the world’s manufa...
10 Dec 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speakers: Albert HO Chairman, China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group Eva PILS Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong Topic: A Sword and A Shield: China’s Human Rights Lawyers Albert HO will talk about the ideas that inspired the authors of this book, published by t...
9 Dec 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speakers: Ronald ARCULLI Chairman of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited Topic: Stock Exchanges: Roles and Challenges Ronald ARCULLI finds it refreshing that after years of serving as a platform for capital raising by corporates, it took a global financial and economic crisis to highlight th...
7 Dec 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Carl ROBINSON Correspondent / Author Topic: Mongolia — Land of Amazing Diversity The popular image of Mongolia is a vast and featureless landscape of grassy steppe and sandy deserts sprawled across the top of Asia between China and Russia. But the reality is much more diverse – and invit...
3 Dec 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Giles CHANCE Visiting Professor, Guanghua Business School, Beijing University Topic: China and the Credit Crisis: the emergence of a New World Order The credit crisis has greatly weakened the West's economic and financial supremacy and accelerated the shift of power from the West to the ...
12 Nov 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Sophie RICHARDSON Advocacy Director of Human Rights Watch’s Asia Division Topic: An Alleyway in Hell – China's "Black Jails" Chinese government agencies maintain numerous secret, unlawful detention facilities known as "black jails" in which agents hold citizens incommunicado for days and...
11 Nov 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Barry CHEUNG Chairman, Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange Topic: China’s commodities trading boom – what is the role for Hong Kong? Barry CHEUNG will speak on China’s growing influence in international commodities trading and Hong Kong’s own role in this process. As the world’s biggest import...
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