7 Jul 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
12:30PM FOR 12:45PM – LUNCH
1:15PM – ADDRESS
1ST FLOOR
Speaker: Professor Paul Yip, HKU
Director, Center for Suicide Research and Prevention
Professor Yip started with a summary of how suicide news was reported in Hong Kong, and make a comparison with overseas press. Researc...
6 Jul 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Monday, July 6, 2015
12:30PM FOR 12:45PM – LUNCH
1:15PM – ADDRESS
1ST FLOOR
Speaker: Wong Chen
Malaysian Opposition Member of Parliament
Of late, Malaysia had been in the news for all the wrong reasons. There had been the still unresolved mystery of Flight MH370 last year, the downing of Flight M...
23 Jun 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
12:30PM FOR 12:45PM – LUNCH
1:15PM – ADDRESS
1ST FLOOR
Speaker: John Rice, GE Vice Chairman
Four years ago John Rice opened GE's Global Growth headquarters in Hong Kong, highlighted the importance of non-U.S. markets to the company and the city's role as a global city. Duri...
15 Jun 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Monday, June 15, 2015
12:30PM FOR 12:45PM – LUNCH
1:15PM – ADDRESS
1ST FLOOR
Speaker: Binod Chaudhary, Founder of Chaudhary Group
Philanthropist and Industrialist in Nepal
On April 25th, 2015, a 7.8 Magnitude earthquake ripped through Nepal, destroying a half million homes, killing over 8,500 p...
12 Jun 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Friday, June 12, 2015
12:30PM FOR 12:45PM – LUNCH
1:15PM – ADDRESS
1ST FLOOR
Speaker: William Horsley, Former BBC correspondent and international director of the Centre for Freedom of the Media, University of Sheffield
Introductory remarks by Caroline Wilson, British Consul – General, HK
Journa...
1 Jun 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Monday, June 1, 2015
7:00pm – dinner
1st Floor
Speaker: Mike Chinoy, Senior Fellow
The U.S.-China Institute, University of Southern California
China in the 1990s was a paradox. In the wake of the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square, political repression intensified. At the same time, however, fol...
27 May 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
12:30pm for 12:45pm – lunch
1:15pm – address
1st Floor
Speaker: Pavin Chachavalpongpun
Associate Professor, Kyoto University
The military staged a coup on 22 May 2014, overthrowing the elected government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. For decades, the traditional e...
21 May 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Thursday, May 21, 2015
12:30pm for 12:45pm – lunch
1:15pm – address
1st Floor
Speaker: Professor Charlie Jeffery
Senior Vice-Principal, Chair of Politics
University of Edinburgh
The failure of either Labour or the Conservatives to open up a clear lead, the likely severe losses of the Liberal Demo...
20 May 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Club Dinner: "Sailing Through Troubled Waters," a film about the disputed Spratly Islands
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
7:00pm – dinner
1st Floor
Speaker: Tomas Etzler
Emmy Award Winner and Documentary Filmmaker
"Sailing Through Troubled Waters" was a 22-minute film by Tomas Etzler that focuses on a ...
18 May 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Monday, May 18, 2015
12:30pm for 12:45pm – lunch
1:15pm – address
1st Floor
Speaker: Professor Michael DeGolyer
The 1989 Tiananmen bloody crackdown occurred during the first school year Professor DeGolyer taught in Hong Kong. Occupy Central came during his last year of teaching. When the speaker ...
