December 10, 2024
“Macau is a place where legends are born, [where] the stories are written,” said Matthew Marsh when describing how Hong Kong’s parallel SAR has impacted the world of motorsport.
Marsh never holds back when sharing his insights with the Club’s motorsport enthusiasts at the annual Formula O...
December 10, 2024
Henry Steiner moved to Hong Kong in 1961 and only intended to stay for nine months at his job as a graphic designer for The Asia Magazine. Finding Hong Kong full of more career opportunities than New York City or other popular destinations for designers, he stayed and ultimately became the “Fathe...
December 5, 2024
New Monthly Subscription Fees from 2025
Dear Members,
I’m writing to inform you that the Board of Governors has voted to increase the monthly subscriptions for all categories of membership, effective from February 1, 2025.
Subscription fees for accounts with only one card ...
December 2, 2024
From October 21-25, Hong Kong hosted its 2024 StartmeupHK Festival in efforts to boost local investment and interest in the city’s start-up ecosystem. With such government-led initiatives and local leaders’ praise for the city’s supportive environment, one may have the impression that Hong Kong i...
November 27, 2024
Pokémon GO, the smartphone game based on the beloved animated series that also features collectible trading cards and videogames, was launched globally in 2016. Unlike any other game before it, Pokémon GO forced players to get outside and search for their favourite characters in real time while t...
November 22, 2024
The World Economic Forum estimates that around 10-20% of the world’s population is neurodivergent, and yet nearly 85% of these individuals are unemployed. People who aren’t neurodivergent (often described as neurotypical) have an unemployment rate of only 4.2%.
But what exactly does neurod...
November 12, 2024
In October 2020, roughly a month before Donald Trump was elected out of office in favour of Joe Biden, Raymond Yeung published his book China’s Trump Card: Cryptocurrency and its Game-Changing Role in Sino-US Trade (2020). In it, he outlines the role of digital currency in geopolitical affairs, e...
November 4, 2024
“We feel like history is repeating itself.”
Michael Bociurkiw, a Canadian of Ukrainian heritage, finds that the current conflict between Ukraine and Russia was foreshadowed by scenes from his childhood, when tensions between the two sides were already strong.
“I never learned how to...
October 30, 2024
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club AwardsClare Hollingworth Fellowships
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Kriti Gandhi
Kriti Gandhi is a freelance journalist and recent graduate of The University of Hong Kong, holding a Bachelor's degree in Journalism and Marketing. She has worked with CNN and NBC News ...
October 30, 2024
Counsellor Huang Jingrui is the spokesman of the Commissioner’s Office of China’s Foreign Ministry in Hong Kong. Despite being posted in the city since September 2022, he has only given closed door, off-the-record talks to other diplomats and journalists.
That finally changed this Septembe...
