8 Apr 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Usha HALEY
Author / Professor of International Business, Massey University, New Zealand
Topic: Game Changer: how subsidies to Chinese Industry altered the World as we knew it
For the past five years or so, Usha HALEY has asked: Why did China frequently move in a couple of years, in capit...
28 Mar 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. Gino STRADA
Founder, EMERGENCY
Topic: War, Health and Human Rights
An outspoken anti-war activist, Dr. STRADA will explore the basic concepts of war, health and human rights, as the thread that links all of EMERGENCY’s activities: the challenges of implementing human rights in contem...
26 Mar 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. Malik PEIRIS
Scientific Director of HKU Pasteur Research Pole
Chair of Virology, School of Public Health, Hong Kong University
Topic: Emerging infectious diseases in Asia: what comes next?
Professor Malik PEIRIS played a central role in identifying the SARS virus a decade ago, and is...
20 Mar 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: JIANG Haishan
Vice President,
China Executive Leadership Academy, Pudong (CELAP)
Topic: China's new policies after The National People's Congress
The session of the National People’s Congress ending on March 17 is producing a new president, premier and set of ministers for China who are ...
14 Mar 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Allan CHIANG, SBS
Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Hong Kong
Topic: Balance between Privacy Rights and Public Interest
Finding a balance between the right to privacy and other social and economic rights is tricky, as highlighted by the raging debate over a proposal to redact direc...
11 Mar 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: David ANDERSON
Author & Physician
Topic: Hongshan Jade Carvings: Collection and Controversy
Mr. ANDERSON has openly collected more than a thousand jade carvings from China’s prehistoric Hongshan Culture (3,500 – 2,000 BCE) over the past 13 years, and he has done so at relatively little c...
6 Mar 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: John WOOD
Former Microsoft Executive, Founder of Room to Read
Topic: Creating Room to Read: A Story of Hope in the Battle for Global Literacy
John WOOD will share the story of what happened when Room to Read began to grow beyond his wildest dreams, and discuss the rapid expansion of this...
26 Feb 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Larry LIPSHER
California & Hong Kong CPA
Topic: Bungee Jumping the Fiscal Cliff !
On 1 January 2013, Congress passed and the President signed the American Taxpayers Relief Act of 2012. This is the first of a few tax-related bills which must be legislated in the U.S. during 2013 that will...
19 Feb 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: John GARNAUT
China Correspondent for The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, Foreign Policy
Topic: BO Xilai’s fall and XI Jinping’s Rise : How Power Really Works in China
BO Xilai's fall from grace is an extraordinary tale of excess, political purges, ideological clashes and the Byzantine de...
5 Feb 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Topic: Will corporate transparency survive in Hong Kong?
A proposed change to the Companies Ordinance would withhold crucial details of company directors from the public record, a move which raises grave concerns among journalists, lawyers, bankers, accountants, investors and others. Many in the...
