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Monthly Archives: September 2009
Oct 12 – UN On China’s Food Security And Climate Change
Food security and climate change are two of the biggest challenges facing China, and we have an eminent expert eager to chat with you over wine about both. Please join a informal (but on the record) conversation and complimentary glass of wine with Dr. Kanayo Felix Nwanze, president of the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural [...]
Oct 12 – What’s Happening To China’s Consumption?
Spend, spend, spend. The world’s eyes are on China’s masses, hopeful that the global economy will come out of the doldrums if China consumes more. Whether China’s growth will be sustainable critically depends on making the switch from investment/export driven growth to consumption driven growth. China did experience a remarkable consumption boom but it was [...]
Warning On Fake Emails Targeting News Assistants
The FCCC has received several reports that correspondents’ news assistants are being targeted with email viruses. The senders were purportedly from the media organisations’ head offices. We would like to advise extra caution when opening such email. Here is one recent example: From: Pam [mailto:pam.bourdon@yahoo.com] Subject: Trip to Beijing Please can you both confirm that [...]
Assault On Kyodo Reporters Is Reprehensible
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China strongly condemns the assault by unidentified people on three reporters working for Japan’s Kyodo News Agency. According to Kyodo, the three journalists were attacked, hit and pushed to the ground on the evening of Sept. 18. Some of their equipment was also damaged. The three were covering a rehearsal [...]
Beijing Authorities Beat Kyodo Journalists
LOCATION: Beijing TYPE OF INCIDENT: Violence, broken equipment TOPIC: Oct. 1 National Day NATIONALITY/ORGANIZATION: Kyodo news agency/Japan The Japanese Kyodo news agency has reported that unidentified authorities in Beijing stormed the hotel room of three visiting journalists, beat them and damaged two computers. The agency says authorities stormed into the journalists’ room on Friday evening, [...]
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