East-West Center Media Conference

If reporters - or anyone for that matter - wish to see a positive vision of the future China, they should visit Taiwan today, one of Hong Kong’s leading media figures told the Center’s Bangkok media conference yesterday.
Jimmy Lai, founder of Next Media Ltd., which publishes the popular newspaper Apple along with a number of [...]

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The summer Olympics in Beijing this summer will be spectacular for athletes and spectators, but perhaps a bit less so for journalists covering the games.
That was one message from a panel on covering the Olympics this week at the Center’s Bangkok Media Conference.
Despite promises of new press freedoms, both for international reporters and the local [...]

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For a look at the Power Point presentation that accompanied this talk, go here.
Reporters covering or attempting to understand China must understand that this huge nation is following its own path — a path that combines capitalism, socialism, Communism and its own Chinese identity, a top East West Center China expert told the Bankgok Media [...]

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To hear an audio version of Dr. Orville Schell’s talk, go HERE
Every conference has a moment or two that helps define discussion for the entire event.
At the Bangkok Media Conference, one such moment came during the presentation by China expert and journalist Orville Schell.

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Whether it is due the coming of the Olympics, globalization , the steady beat of democratization or emerging local, non-state enterprises, good things are happening to the media in China, one of that country’s leading press reformers told the media conference.
Li Datong, Senior Editor at China Youth Daily and a longtime advocate of [...]

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