Local Internet pioneer and entrepreneur Pindar Wong discusses the challenges, opportunities and responsibilities facing Hong Kong’s first digital generation. The talk will focus on Creative Commons, a progressive copyright system that allows to share, remix, reuse and upload digital materials…

Professor Ying Chan, JMSC Director, has contributed an Op-Ed to the New York Times, China dated November, 11, 2009: In the propaganda skirmish, Beijing outmaneuvered the U.S. president at nearly every turn

Reminder: Professor Leo Leo will give the fifth lecture in his series on Humanities Now; Perspectives Across Cultures on Friday, November 27 at  the Convocation Room, Main Building, HKU from 5.30pm to 7.30pm.

The lecture is titled: Listening to the 20th…

Dr Rossella Ferrari from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London will reflect on new ways of conceptualizing the avant-garde by shifting the debate away from a purely West-centric perspective and by looking at the…

JMSC Master of Journalism student, Rebecca Valli, is off to Cambodia for Christmas this year. Not on holiday – for an internship at the Phnom Penh Post.

“I am sure it will be a blast. I am extremely excited to work…

Cornelius Rahn, 27, is the perfect example of how a young journalist can turn an internship into a full time job.

After graduating with a distinction from the JMSC Master of Journalism programme this summer, he took a three month internship as a reporter at the financial and business news provider, Bloomberg, in Frankfurt, Germany.

Veteran documentary film-maker Nancy Tong, visiting associate professor at the JMSC, will be one of three speakers presenting at a workshop called Crossing Borders/Traveling the World: Documentaries and Global Identities, on November 26.

The workshop is organised by the Department of…

A US art school finds itself embroiled in a dispute over a disused magistracy in hong Kong, reports Alison Jenner.

Why demolish living history? Lai Zixian looks at the Hong Kong conundrum: preservation versus redevelopment.

Meet Hong Kong’s monkey kings. By Viola Luk. BJ Class of 2009.