15 Oct 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speakers:
Aki RA
Cambodia Landmine Museum Founder
V. Tony HAUSER
Photographer
Topic: The story of a former Khmer Rouge child soldier
Aki RA will share his life story. Growing up knowing only war, he was co-opted into the Khmer Rouge as an orphaned child. He was praised for carrying a heavy rifle ...
8 Oct 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Terry DUFFY
Executive Chairman, CME Group
(Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Chicago Board of Trade and NYMEX)
Topic: Preventing the Next Financial Crisis
As head of the world’s largest derivatives marketplace, Terry DUFFY will discuss how the financial community’s approach to risk management...
7 Oct 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Stanley HARPER
Film director of "Cambodia Dreams"
Topic: Screening of “Cambodia Dreams”
Cambodia was the epicenter of the proxy Cold War. It resulted in civil wars and revolution, tearing apart the nation and creating a diaspora.
“Cambodia Dreams” has a timeless universal theme, the indo...
6 Oct 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Tom CURLEY
Topic: The way forward: new opportunities for global news in the digital age
Tom CURLEY will discuss the crisis facing the global news industry and show how the changing media environment provides opportunities to allow companies to continue supporting authoritative, original ...
5 Oct 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Hon. Bill ENGLISH
24 Sep 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Martin JACQUES
Senior Fellow – IDEAS institute, London School of Economics
Columnist – the Guardian
Topic: When China rules the World
Until recently the idea of modernity was synonymous with being western.
There was a widespread belief that there was only one version of modernity, namely...
23 Sep 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Nicole KEMPTON
Author / Washington Director of the Laogai Research Foundation
Topic: Laogai: The Machinery of Repression in China
To coincide with the 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China and a new book under the same title as this lunch, Ms. KEMPTON will take an in-depth l...
22 Sep 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Jake VAN DER KAMP
Columnist / Author
Topic: The Twelfth Fairy
FCC treasurer Jake VAN DER KAMP, having walked away last year from his daily financial column in the South China Morning Post, is still regularly perched behind his laptop in the northeast corner of the main bar and still writ...
16 Sep 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Benedict ROGERS
Author and Human Rights Campaigner
East Asia Team Leader at Christian Solidarity Worldwide
Topic: Burma’s crimes against humanity: a test-case for the responsibility to protect
Benedict ROGERS has travelled almost thirty times to Burma and its borderlands. He will give an...
18 Aug 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Dr Philip NITSCHKE (PhD MD)
Director, Exit International
Topic: Euthanasia in Asia: the need for an exit plan
Can the elderly – as well as the seriously ill – be lawfully entitled to a peaceful death at a time of their choosing? Dr. NITSCHKE will share his views on the controversial issu...
