The recent conviction of Vietnamese human rights attorney, Le Cong Dinh, in Ho Chi Minh City is a blow to press freedom in South East Asia.

Dinh was found guilty with three others of trying to overthrow the communist government.…

ABC News in New York has accepted its first story from JMSC Master of Journalism student Lorea Solabarrieta.

Director of the Public Health Media Project and Assistant Professor, Thomas Abraham, will talk about the Swine Flu Pandemic at a Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Hong Kong luncheon on Monday, February 1.

Photo credit: London Business School – December 9, 2009

A Conversation with George Soros
5:30 – 7pm, February 3, 2010
Loke Yew Hall, Main Building, The University of Hong Kong
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Make a date in your diary for the weekend of Jan 20-31 to watch Cambodia Surgical Ward, filmed and directed by the JMSC’s adjunct lecturer, Rob McBride, and produced by Director of Broadcast Programme, Jim Laurie.

Documentary maker and Visiting Associate Professor at the JMSC, Nancy Tong, will screen her prize winning documentary, In the Name of the Emperor, at a film symposium titled History, Trauma and Memory on Wednesday, February 3,  at T2, Meng…

If we tightened the focus on our mental microscopes, dropping through the broad strokes of Chinese history and politics, and through the thicket of foreign aggression — would it then be possible to locate the root of China’s historical weakness…

Following the huge success of George Soros’ recent lectures at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, the phenomenally successful international financier and philanthropist is coming to talk at the University of Hong Kong on February 3rd.

A Conversation with…

Meet Christian Caryl, the JMSC’s first Critic-in-Residence.

Asad Ali, 22, from Kolkata, is starting the second semester of his Master of Journalism course at the JMSC. His impressions: