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Our FCC Speakers Series is a unique opportunity for our members and their guests to listen, engage and discuss the latest local and international events and trends at the Club. The talks, organized by the Club’s Professional Committee, are hosted in the FCC’s main dining room, usually over lunch and occasionally over breakfast or dinner. The speaker typically gives initial remarks for 30-40 minutes and then takes questions for 10-15 minutes. The events are on the record, and videos of them go up on the Club’s website.

Aside from organizing guest speakers, the Professional Committee plans and produces evening documentary screenings, educational workshops, debates, speed-networking opportunities and events that benefit FCC members and provide opportunities for correspondents and journalists to grow professionally. See below for a full list of all club activities.
23 Jan 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Mark KITTO Magazine Founder / Author Topic: Going Quietly Cuckoo on a Chinese Mountain In 2005, Mark KITTO was told by many people that he was mad to move to Moganshan, a remote mountaintop village in Zhejiang where he planned to set up a coffee shop with his wife and to write books. He ...
22 Jan 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. RUAN Zongze Vice President and Senior Fellow at the China Institute of International Studies Topic: The World and Chinese Diplomacy in 2013 The new year brings a long list of diplomatic challenges, and as the sudden evacuation of Chinese nationals from distant Libya showed nearly two...
21 Jan 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: P. Kevin MacKeown Honorary Professor of Physics, University of Hong Kong Topic: Typhoons and Taskmasters: Early Meteorology in Colonial Hong Kong In the three proposed schemes for an observatory at Hong Kong, a role for forecasting typhoon occurrences actually received little emphasis. A...
17 Jan 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Vali R. NASR Dean of The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University Topic: The Arab Spring: Where do we go from here? Vali R. NASR will provide a tour d’horizon of the Middle East today, with particular attention paid to Egypt, the Israel-Palestinian...
15 Jan 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Masako SAKATA Producer Topic: Agent Orange: A Personal Requiem Documentary Screening Ms. SAKATA’s husband, Greg DAVIS, passed away at age 54, with exposure to Agent Orange as a suspected cause. He was a photographer covering Asia for Time magazine. To deal with her sadness and loneliness...
14 Jan 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. Paul O’CONNOR Adjunct Assistant Professor Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Topic: The Status of Muslims in the Minority Politics of Contemporary Hong Kong Who are Hong Kong’s Muslims, to which communities do they belong, what is their history, and what ...
7 Jan 2013 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Justice Kemal BOKHARY Court of Final Appeal, Hong Kong Topic: Reflections on Life at the Bar and on the Bench Justice BOKHARY was one of three permanent judges of Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal from its inception in 1997 until October 2012, when he reached the retirement age of 65 and...
17 Dec 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Sir David TANG KBE Chevalier de I’Ordre des Arts et Lettres Topic: What my first trip to China taught me about the future of China Sir David TANG is one of the contributors to the new book “My First Trip to China: Scholars, Diplomats and Journalists Reflect on their First Encounters with...
11 Dec 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Hong Kong Noir Dr. FENG Chi-shun, author of local bestseller Diamond Hill, is back with his choice nuggets of local life in Hong Kong Noir FENG Chi-shun, Hong Kong native, veteran FCC member and friend to many has come up with a rich collection of true Hong Kong tales. These 15 colourful stories ...
10 Dec 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Doug YOUNG Professor, Finance Journalism, Fudan University Former Journalist, Reuters Topic: How New Media are changing China's social dialogue Mr. YOUNG will discuss the rapid rise of new media in China and how those media have changed the way that news gets disseminated. Using platform...
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