The professional association of foreign journalists in Beijing.

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 [...]

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 [...]