10 Feb 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Humphrey HAWKSLEY
BBC Foreign Correspondent
Topic: “HELLO, GOODBYE - AND HAVE A NICE LIFE - with all conversations in between on how Bin LADEN and Steve JOBS changed the world”
Mr. Humphrey HAWKSLEY has been invited to Hong Kong, courtesy of IQ2. From Africa to Latin America to the Middl...
24 Jan 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Jing ULRICH
Managing Director & Chairman, China Equities & Commodities, J.P. Morgan
Topic: China in 2011: cultivating sustainable growth
Jing will discuss China’s rapidly changing policy environment and examine potential risks: 1) How will policymakers address the risk of rising inflatio...
18 Jan 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Peter G de KRASSEL
Author and analyst on Sino-US relations
Topic: Feasting Dragon, Starving Eagle
Mr de KRASSEL introduces his new book: Feasting Dragon, Starving Eagle. In his view, through its misguided foreign and fiscal policies and alliances, America has allowed China to prosper at ...
3 Jan 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Norman PEARLSTINE
Chief Content Officer, Bloombery L.P
Chairman, Bloomberg BusinesWeek
Topic: The U.S. political scene and its implications for Asia - 2011 and beyond
Norman PEARLSTINE joined Bloomberg L.P. in June 2008 as Chief Content Officer, a newly-created position. In this role, Pe...
15 Dec 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Club book launch: An Eastern Saga
An Eastern Saga is a memoir of Marvin FARKAS’s life in Hong Kong and Asia in the 1950s and 1960s. The book describes Marvin’s experiences of events ranging from the Malaysian independence to the early years of the Vietnam War, as well as encounters with key figur...
2 Dec 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: John MICKLETHWAIT
Editor-in-Chief, The Economist
Topic: “The Economist and mass intelligence”
Increasingly the print media is linked with declining newspapers, well-known magazines being sold for a few dollars and journalists being sacked. Some think the only way to survive is to dumb do...
29 Nov 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Gordon CROVITZ
Co-founder, Journalism Online
Topic: "Can Journalism Make Money On The Web?"
It has now been 15 years since news publishers launched their Web sites. At that time, publishers had a hard choice: Should they make their Web sites free or put them behind pay walls? Most publis...
23 Nov 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Basil PAO
Photographer / Author
Topic: Great landscapes of the World
Shan Shui - Mountain and Water - is the term for the school of Chinese landscape paintings in a spontaneous ink-wash style. Basil PAO has used the three principles of Shan Shui painting - paths, threshold and heart - to...
22 Nov 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Anthony BOLTON
Author / Columnist / President of Investments, Fidelity Investment Managers
Topic: “China and Global Markets”
Almost a year ago, Anthony BOLTON announced his intention to postpone retirement and relocate to Hong Kong to manage a China fund for UK investors. At the time, he...
16 Nov 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: John SAYER
Director General, Oxfam Hong Kong
Topic: China's unsung heroes
Oxfam Hong Kong routinely works with farmers, villagers and migrant workers on rural development and job-training programmes. In a recent book, China Voices, the NGO profiled various groups and individuals whose da...
