John McBethMay 31 1944 - December 7 2023 Of all the foreign correspondents who have worked in southeast Asia over the past six decades, none surpassed John McBeth in dedication to his craft and the esteem and friendship of his colleagues. As a young and adv...

By Paul Ehrlich Tad – Bartine Albert Stoner III – was a character of the highest order. He was loud, witty, smart and kind-hearted, though he would have denied this with a deep, full-throated laugh. What he wouldn’t deny is an affinity for whimsical braces (aka suspenders), a sartorial flouris...

By Jon Marsh Warm, funny, generous… A great colleague, an even better friend… The bloke you wanted beside you in the office as deadlines loomed, and sitting next to you in the pub afterwards. The tributes to Ewen Campbell have flowed thick and fast since Hong Kong lost one of its most talented...

By Frank Ching Suzanne Pepper, a noted China scholar who called Hong Kong home for more than half a century, died in late June, days after a week-long hospital stay for a battery of tests. She was 83 years old. Suzanne arrived in Hong Kong in the 1960s to study Chinese, and promptly met fel...

By Andrew Dembina “Van Morrison’s playing reminds us that he used to be quite a sharp acoustic guitarist… a welcome inclusion on an engaging, enthusiastic but inessential set.” So concluded an incisive review of a then new CD called The Skiffle Sessions, published in the May 2000 issue of HMV’...

By Philip Bowring Ian Verchere, who died on 17 July in England aged 83, was one of the most agreeable and versatile journalists I have known. A restless enthusiasm and a wide variety of intellectual interests took him to many places, but he started out in Hong Kong doing his national service i...

By Stephen Vines Jonathan Mirsky was never a conventional journalist, nor conventional anything else. He died in London in September at the age of 88.  For many years he was among the best known China watchers in the hacking business and won the British Press Awards International Repor...

Paul Murray pays tribute to his friend, Dr Feng Chi-shun. Chi passed peacefully early afternoon on Friday, March 8 after a particularly debilitating illness which robbed him of his considerable communicative powers. Originally from Wuhan, he came to Hong Kong, as so many did, as a result of the M...

By Brodie Paul and William Mellor One of Asia Pacific’s most distinguished foreign correspondents, two-time FCC President and life member Anthony Paul, passed away in Brisbane on July 14, aged 81. Partially obscured, Tony Paul in the shadow of Ambassador Graham Martin as the press crowd around...

Kevin Egan, the FCC’s 2nd Vice President, died on Sunday night following a battle with cancer. He was 70, writes Jane Moir. Kevin Egan, a life member of the FCC and a long-standing board member. Photo: ©2018 Robin Moyer Fellow members, friends and colleagues paid tribute to Egan as a tenacious...