22 Feb 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Michael LITTLEWOOD
Faculty Member, University of Auckland Law School
Topic: The Hong Kong Tax System: its history, its future and the lessons it holds for the rest of the world
Hong Kong’s tax system was designed by a group of businessmen in 1940. Their objective – which they achieved – ...
4 Feb 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speakers:
Christina CHAN
Student Activist
Mirana M. SZETO
Spokesperson of the Stop Express Rail Link Alliance
Topic: Why is the post-80's generation angry?
The “post-80’s” generation has been making headlines recently for their various protests around town. But what is the post-80’s generation? I...
1 Feb 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Thomas ABRAHAM
Director, Public Health Communication Programme
University of Hong Kong
Topic: Inside the Swine Flu pandemic
Mr. ABRAHAM spent the last year at the World Health Organization in Geneva, and was head of news in the Director General’s office when the ‘pandemic’ broke out in A...
21 Jan 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Paul MIDLER
Author
Topic: "Poorly Made in China"
Product failures have been making headlines for over two years, prompting many to ask along the way: Why China? Mainland manufacturers have their own quality control staff, and yet importers have felt compelled to send in their own inspect...
20 Jan 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Barry WAIN
Author / Writer-in-Residence at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Topic: Mahathir's legacy haunts Malaysia
Mr. WAIN feels that six years and two prime ministers after Mahathir MOHAMAD retired, Malaysia is mired in an array of problems bequeathed by the country’s longest...
18 Jan 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Cameron DUECK
Journalist / Yachtsman
Topic: Voyage of discovery in Canada's Arctic
In the summer of 2009, Mr. DUECK led a sailing expedition through the elusive Northwest Passage to see first hand how Canada’s Inuit are coping with climate change.
With only four crew and the ticking cloc...
11 Jan 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. Philip S. CARMICHAEL
President Haier Asia-Pacific
Topic: Can China develop a global brand?
Dr. CARMICHAEL will share his experiences and insights into the challenges and obstacles facing Chinese companies in their bid to become global brands.
China has evolved into the world’s manufa...
10 Dec 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speakers:
Albert HO
Chairman, China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group
Eva PILS
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Topic: A Sword and A Shield: China’s Human Rights Lawyers
Albert HO will talk about the ideas that inspired the authors of this book, published by t...
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...
