The professional association of foreign journalists in Beijing.

Dear Members, The Foreign Ministry is organizing a series of trips to Western China including Tibet. The registration deadline for the first trip is this Friday, June 11. For more information and to register for this and other trips, please see the website of the International Press Center, at http://ipc.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/. The FCCC Board

Following votes cast by a quorum of correspondent members at the club’s Annual General Meeting on May 11, these FCCC members have been elected to serve as the board of directors for the coming year. President: Stephen McDonell (ABC News) Vice President: Lucy Hornby (Reuters) Secretary: Kathleen McLaughlin (BNA) Treasurer: Tze-Wei Ng (SCMP) General Board [...]

The FCCC has confirmed eight cases in recent weeks in which journalists based in China and Taiwan have had their Yahoo email accounts hacked, with several accounts disabled by Yahoo on March 25. In one instance, a Beijing-based journalist’s account had an unknown forwarding address added, sending all the journalist’s messages to an unknown recipient. [...]

Three Beijing-based journalists have reported receiving emails containing malware from an address that initially appeared to come from the Shanghai Expo’s media affairs office. The email, which was not sent by the Expo office, may be targeting correspondents who registered to cover the event. Malicious email attachments sent to foreign correspondents in China tend to [...]

Foreign correspondents in a few bureaus in Beijng have recently discovered that their Gmail accounts had been hijacked. Their emails were being forwarded to a stranger’s address. Here is how you can check if your Gmail has been compromised: Log into your Gmail account Click “Settings” in the upper right hand corner. Then click on [...]