9 Dec 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speakers: Ronald ARCULLI
Chairman of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited
Topic: Stock Exchanges: Roles and Challenges
Ronald ARCULLI finds it refreshing that after years of serving as a platform for capital raising by corporates, it took a global financial and economic crisis to highlight th...
7 Dec 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Carl ROBINSON
Correspondent / Author
Topic: Mongolia — Land of Amazing Diversity
The popular image of Mongolia is a vast and featureless landscape of grassy steppe and sandy deserts sprawled across the top of Asia between China and Russia. But the reality is much more diverse – and invit...
3 Dec 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Giles CHANCE
Visiting Professor, Guanghua Business School, Beijing University
Topic: China and the Credit Crisis: the emergence of a New World Order
The credit crisis has greatly weakened the West's economic and financial supremacy and accelerated the shift of power from the West to the ...
26 Nov 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Patrick HENNESSEY
Former Captain, British Army / Author / Law Student
Topic: The Afghanistan War: A British Soldier's Perspective
For the first time in a generation British soldiers are once again fighting at close quarters, coming under sustained and vicious firepower, losing friends in...
12 Nov 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Sophie RICHARDSON
Advocacy Director of Human Rights Watch’s Asia Division
Topic: An Alleyway in Hell – China's "Black Jails"
Chinese government agencies maintain numerous secret, unlawful detention facilities known as "black jails" in which agents hold citizens incommunicado for days and...
11 Nov 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Barry CHEUNG
Chairman, Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange
Topic: China’s commodities trading boom – what is the role for Hong Kong?
Barry CHEUNG will speak on China’s growing influence in international commodities trading and Hong Kong’s own role in this process. As the world’s biggest import...
10 Nov 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speakers:
Doug WOODRING
Co-Founder, Project Kaisei
Karin MALMSTROM
Volunteer
Topic: Capturing the Plastic Vortex – Project Kaisei
Project Kaisei Co-Founder Doug WOODRING and FCC member Karin MALMSTROM will speak about their experience of 21 days in the North Pacific Gyre (the “Plastic Vortex”). L...
6 Nov 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Dr David ANDERSON
Medical Doctor / Former Professor
Topic: How WHO guidlines on Rabies are killing children
Dr. ANDERSON made an educational film in 2004 on dog bites and rabies prevention. He was horrified by the harrowing specter of people, mainly children, dying from rabies, and by wh...
5 Nov 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Karim RASLAN
Columnist
Topic: Malaysia: race and religion in a rapidly-growing Southeast Asia
Malaysia’s potential has long been saddled with obstacles, most notably the racially-tinged New Economic policy. A hub of market activity and mine of natural resources, it now trails neighboring...
4 Nov 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Jane PERLEZ
Chief Pakistan Correspondent, The New York Times / International Herald Tribune 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winner
Topic: Can Pakistan be saved?
A nuclear-armed nation of 170 million people, Pakistan is of vital interest to the United States and the West. But it has also been the sit...
