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Day 1: Who's Who of Asia Pacific Journalists Attend International Media Conference

The second International Media Conference opened Monday morning at the University of Hong Kong with more than 300 journalists from the Asia Pacific and the US in attendance.

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Surin: ASEAN Can Play Leadership Role in Asia

Surin: ASEAN Can Play Leadership Role in Asia

HONG KONG (April 26, 2010) — For ASEAN Secretary-General Dr. Surin Pitsuwan, a major revelation about the new reality of Asia’s global role and “shift of weight from West to East” came in October 2008, when Western and Asian …

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Press Freedom and Emerging Democracies

In a panel on Asia’s Emerging Democracies, journalists from developing countries shared problems with promoting a free press in countries that have had little or no freedom, let alone a free press.

“In some ways it’s easier to have censorship,”

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Conference Underway

Conference Underway

The International Media Conference got underway this morning at the Graduate House conference facility on The University of Hong Kong’s picturesque hillside campus.

Conference participants and members of the Hong Kong press were welcomed by East-West Center President Charles E. …

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Reception at FCC

Reception at FCC

IMC participants gathered Sunday night for a pre-conference reception at Hong Kong’s famous Foreign Correspondents Club.

In the elegant club that was first founded in by overseas reporters in war-torn China of the 1940s, IMC participants from more than …

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Participants Arrive, Registration Opens

Participants Arrive, Registration Opens

Participants began arriving and registration opened for the International Media Conference at noon on April 25. At latest count, registration for the conference tops 300. The first event is a reception this evening at the storied Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents’ …

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