8 Nov 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Jenny BOWEN
Founder & CEO, Half the Sky
Topic: China’s orphans today
How many children are still in China’s orphanages? What’s changed in recent years? How is the trafficking situation?
The Chinese government estimates it has 583,000 orphans with about 57,000 living in 290 children’s wel...
27 Oct 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Jeremy O’GRADY
Editor-in-Chief, The Week (London)
Topic: Making of news and views in the 21st Century
Much of Jeremy O'GRADY's career has been spent at he sharp end of shaping public opinion in the UK. He served on the British Board of Film Classification for a decade, before morphing in...
15 Oct 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: David SCHLESINGER
Editor-in-Chief, Reuters News, Thomson Reuters
Topic: News in the digital world: whither journalism and journalists?
“Securities research” is invariably defined by its content and that content is increasingly under the scrutiny of regulators, regardless of whether you w...
12 Oct 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
“Securities research” is invariably defined by its content and that content is increasingly under the scrutiny of regulators, regardless of whether you work for a broker, a bank, or even a website.
Mr. Bolland will provide insight into who might get caught up in this new world, and what they must...
5 Oct 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Charles LI
Chief Executive, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited
Topic: Hong Kong's role in the internationalization of the renminbi
Controlled internationalization of the renminbi is a landmark experiment. It has become one of the hottest topics in Hong Kong’s finance industry as it...
28 Sep 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. CHEN Xiwo
Writer, litigant and scholar of comparative literature at Fuzhou Normal University
Topic: From the front lines in the battle against censorship
In June 2007, the Fuzhou office of China Customs intercepted the galley proof of author CHEN Xiwo’s book that had been mailed to h...
22 Sep 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Matthew CRABBE
Author / Co-founder of Access Asia
Topic: Fat China: expanding waistlines change a nation
A disastrous side effect of China’s booming economy - along with pollution and a growing income gap - is the effect of obesity on the fragile healthcare system. Rates of obesity are e...
13 Sep 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Professor Madhav NALAPAT
UNESCO Peace Chair at Manipal University, India
Topic: Threat of Islamic Fundamentalism to Asia
Asia, home to the major world religions, has become the endemic focus of Wahabbist-Khomeinist extremism, often confused with Islamic fundamentalism. Today, clusters of...
18 Aug 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Amanda BENNETT
Co-Chairman Pulitzer Prize Board
Topic: Investigative Journalism in a Globalised World
Investigative journalism is under threat. It's the most expensive form of news gathering in a time of newspaper budget cuts and journalist layoffs, both in the U.S. and around the world....
4 Aug 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Professor Sheila CORONEL
Toni Stabile Professor of Professional Practice in Investigative Journalism, Columbia University
Topic: Can Noynoy AQUINO Fight Corruption in the Philippines?
Benigno AQUINO III was sworn in as the President of the Philippines on June 30, after a landslide electi...