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New Indian Express
26-05-2025
- Politics
- New Indian Express
Correspondent from Syria new Foreign Correspondents Club chief
NEW DELHI: Dr Waiel Awwad, a senior Syria-born foreign correspondent based in India, was elected as the new President of the Foreign Correspondents Club (FCC) of South Asia and Veteran editor, political commentator and author Prakash Nanda was re-elected as the Secretary of the Club for the 2025–27 term. P. M. Narayanan, a television journalist with German TV, was re-elected as the Treasurer, a statement form FCCSA said. Dr Awwad succeeds Venkat Narayan, another highly respected foreign correspondent. The elections followed the Annual General Body Meeting, held within the FCC premises. A total of nine members were also elected to the General Council. The elected members are Mayank Bhardwaj (Reuters), Krishnan P. Nayar (Emirates News Agency), Anoop Saxena (German TV), Devina Gupta (BBC), Eshani Mathur (Bloomberg), Ruslan Imaev (Russia Today), Sidhartha Srivastava (CAN), C. K. Nayak (Jan Aastha Abroad), Amitav Srivastava (SABC). Polls held within FCC premises The elections followed the Annual General Body Meeting, held within the FCC premises. A total of nine members were also elected to the General Council. The new team will serve for two years form 2025 to 2027.
South China Morning Post
18-05-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
Let's dispel any doubts now over Hong Kong's post-2047 future
Hong Kong could be in for another bout of 'what will happen to us in …', only with 2047 replacing 1997. I say this after attending a farewell presentation by activist investor David Webb last week. Advertisement For many years , Webb has worked on a pro bono basis to improve public knowledge of business issues. Towards the end of his fireside chat at the Foreign Correspondents' Club, Webb asked which legal system would apply in Hong Kong after 2047 and whether our law students should continue to study the existing system or start to become proficient in mainland law. He referred in particular to contract law and land leases. My immediate reaction was: let's please not go through all this again. Half a century ago, I was an alarmist. Now I urge everyone to keep calm. When I first arrived in Hong Kong in the early 1970s, almost nobody expressed concern about 1997. Received wisdom then was that the date was irrelevant as Beijing had expressly disowned all the unequal treaties signed with foreign powers in the 19th century. China was ignoring the deadline, so it was safe for Hongkongers to do the same. I was never really convinced by that argument, for two reasons. The first concerned the relevant treaties. Britain was sticking to the terms of the two which gave it control over Hong Kong Island and urban Kowloon in perpetuity. It followed that, for consistency's sake, it had to abide by the terms of the 1898 lease of the New Territories . The British would have to offer it up when the 99-year lease expired. Advertisement The second reason concerned borrowing for property purchases. Hong Kong was moving towards 20-year mortgages, which simply did not work for properties north of Boundary Street (which used to mark the border between the colony of Hong Kong and the New Territories). Bank managers are by nature cautious, and I couldn't see them making big loans to buy on land where ultimate control would shortly be in question. I urged anyone who would listen to address the issue, but there were few takers.
Bloomberg
12-05-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
HK's Best-Known Activist Investor Webb Addresses a Packed House
Members of Hong Kong's financial community crowded into the Foreign Correspondents' Club on Monday to hear the city's most famous activist investor David Webb speak at what was labelled a 'Farewell Fireside Chat.' Demand was so high the FCC extended the lunch event to all three restaurants in its historic clubhouse in the heart of the city, with at least 230 people attending. Webb announced in February he had months left to live after battling pancreatic cancer.
