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SPEAKER LUNCHEON “The 1967 Riots: What is the relevance today?” Speaker: Mr. Ching Cheong 14 June 2017, Wednesday, 12:30 – 14:00 Hong Kong Club, 1 Jackson Road HK$450 for HKDF Members and Sponsors HK$600 for Guests Mr. Ching Cheong will review the circumstances and occurrences in the run up and aftermath of the 1967 riots, and relate the lessons to better understand Hong Kong today.
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Email [email protected] to reserve your seat(s) Organization: __________________________ This speaker luncheon is co-organized by George Cautherley, Hong Kong Democratic Foundation and Designing Hong Kong. |
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 Designing Hong Kong is a non-profit organization in Hong Kong which promotes interventions wherever it sees bad planning – at a territorial or district level, and wherever it sees that policies, processes or institutions are not working the way they should. The aim of Designing Hong Kong is to increase public awareness and to improve Hong Kong’s collective ability to plan and deliver a sustainable and a ‘beautiful’ city. It advocates the adoption of sustainability, quality of life and good design as core values in planning and development.www.designinghongkong.com |
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Ching Cheong is a senior journalist educated in St. Paul's College, Hong Kong, and graduated from Hong Kong University in 1973 with a degree in Economics. In 1974, he joined the pro-Red China newspaper Wen Wei Po, of which he eventually became vice-editorial manager. After the Tiananmen massacre of 4 June 1989, Ching and some 40 other journalists resigned from the newspaper in protest. After that he, Li Zhisong and others founded Commentary, a magazine commenting on China. In 1996 he joined the staff of the Singapore-based Straits Times. At first he was assigned to the Taiwan desk, where his articles clearly showed a pro-unification stance. These articles are collected in a book called 'Will Taiwan Break Away: The Rise of Taiwanese Nationalism' . He was detained by the People's Republic of China on allegations of spying for Taiwan on 22 April 2005 in Guangzhou. Charged with spying on behalf of a foreign intelligence agency he was imprisoned on the Mainland. On 5 February 2008, after spending more than 1,000 days in prison, the Chinese government announced that they was released early, a few days before the Chinese New Year holiday.
