Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat, the FCCC is throwing its annual End of the Year Party and that’s a Yuletide fact! Yes indeed, dear members, it is that time of the year to act like the Three Wise men and journey by guided light on SATURDAY DECEMBER 11 to CABARE,  where you [...]

China’s anti-monopoly law is two years old now.  So far, most of the published rulings have involved foreign companies, such as Coca-Cola in its attempted takeover of Huiyuan.  Is the AML another protectionist tool of the Chinese government,  or is China finally playing catch-up in the global antitrust arena? DATE: November 18, 2010 TIME: 1-2:30pm [...]

“Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November, Gun Powder, Treason and Plot”… so goes the little ditty remembered by Britons on this autumnal calendar date, in remembrance of some rabble rouser called Guy Fawkes, who tried to blow up the mother of all parliaments in London in 1604. What the author forgot to add in the [...]

Earlier this month, North Korea let down the drawbridge and invited foreign journalists to attend festivities marking the 65th anniversary of the Workers’ Party. A panel of our colleagues who made the trip will describe their impressions and air video clips from Pyongyang. DATE: Thursday, November 4 TIME: 11:00am-12:30pm VENUE: Embassy of the Kingdom of [...]

Don Brean, an economist at University of Toronto, will discuss global concerns that are expected to take center stage at the G20 summit next month in Seoul: the RMB-$ exchange rate, the prospect of a “currency war,” and the implications of China’s inevitably deeper financial integration with the world. DATE: Wednesday, November 3 TIME: 3:30-5:00pm [...]