Notices
The Club’s Early Closure on Chinese New Year’s Eve and Staff Party Read More…
A Celebration of Life for David Lawrence Read More…
The Club’s operations return to normal, but mask-wearing still applies! Read More…
Twitter Updates
Press Freedom
MOFA Responds to FCC Statement on the arrest of Ronson Chan, chairperson of the Hong Kong Journalists Association Read More…
Statement on the arrest of Ronson Chan, chairperson of the Hong Kong Journalists Association Read More…
FCC Statement on July 1 Media Restrictions Read More…
FCC Statement on Media Handover Restrictions Read More…
Message from the President on World Press Freedom Day Read More…
FCC Statement on the Deaths of Journalists in Ukraine Read More…
Upcoming Events
Dining
15 Jan 2022 — 14 Apr 2023
8 Oct 2022 — 30 Sep 2023
Promotions
Latest Speakers
1 Feb 2023 12:30 PM — 02:00 PM
LUNCH TALK
‘Political Censorship in British Hong Kong’:
A Lunch with Author Dr Michael Ng
Speaker
MICHAEL NG
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2023
12:30PM FOR 12:45PM – LUNCH
1:10PM – ADDRESS
1ST FLOOR
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About The Foreign Correspondents’ Club
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Hong Kong is probably the most famous press club in the world. We have a long and rich journalistic heritage dating back to our founding in China in 1943. Over the ensuing decades, our members have been eye witnesses to history across Asia, bringing the stories to the world in words and pictures.
Contact the editor
Ed Peters
Ed Peters has been based in Asia for much of his working
life. Since becoming a journalist, he has freelanced for a vast range of publications around the world, worked fulltime for CNN and edited an architectural magazine.
His memories of the FCC stretch from drinking in Sutherland House in the 1980s, to the phantasmagorical Saturnalia of Handover Night on 30 June 1997, to more recently when he has been a driving force in revamping The Correspondent.
The January 2023 issue of the magazine leads with a wide-ranging report on Hong Kong’s environmental state of health, backed up by a dispatch from one of Cambodia’s foremost correspondents, interviews with the trio of new Clare Hollingworth Fellows, and a clutch of book reviews that encompass the pitfalls of the Joint Declaration and the tale of a (fictional) swashbuckling Gurkha officer.
Members’ suggestions and contributions for future issues are all more than welcome.
The Correspondent
Our History
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club was founded in 1943 in Japanese-occupied China during World War II. Its first base was in Chongqing, a city controlled by nationalist leader, Chiang Kai-shek. As the struggle between the Nationalists and Mao Zedong’s Communists intensified after the invaders were repelled, the Club moved with the action, first to Nanjing, then to Broadway Mansions in Shanghai….
Become A Member
- FCC membership is open to all. In addition to the correspondents and journalists who remain the heart of the club, we count diplomats, doctors, bankers, lawyers, artists and teachers among our membership and we welcome others keen to join the discussion.
- Club members have access to our facilities from breakfast through to a late nightcap. We offer food and drinks throughout the day as well as a workroom and a gym. As an important media hub, the Club provides a neutral platform for an impressive range of local and international speakers and our great meeting venues can be hired by members for business gatherings, hosting media events and weddings as well as drinks or dinner with friends and guests.
- For more on our dining and hospitality options, click here.
- The FCC also maintains a wide set of reciprocal relationships with other clubs around the world for our members to visit. For more details of the clubs we have links with, and how to arrange visits, please click here.