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Dr. Huguette LaBelle, Chair of the Board of Transparency International, gives public keynote lecture "Corruption: Key Challenges for Local, National, and International Institution" as part of the Conference on Grand and Petty Corruption in Developing States: Business, Citizens, and the State.

For more information and to view PDFs of panelist remarks, please visit the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University website: http://ceas.yale.edu/events/freedom-and-fear-hong-kong-media-xiang-gang-mei-ti-zi-you-he-qu-he-cong.

The ouster and subsequent stabbing attack on Ming Pao Daily News ex-Chief Editor Kevin Lau have drawn protestors into Hong Kong's streets and put a global spotlight on the future of the city's autonomy and press freedoms under "One Country, Two Systems." Sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University, this special panel discussion explores the past, present, and future of Hong Kong's Chinese-language media and its role in Greater China's economic and cultural life.

FEATURING

CHEN Zhiwu - Professor of Finance, Yale School of Management and Author of "Media, Law and Markets"

KANG Zhengguo - Senior Lector Emeritus of East Asian Languages & Literatures, Yale University and Author of "Confessions: An Innocent Life in Communist China"

Thomas KELLOGG - Program Director at Open Society Foundations and former Senior Fellow, China Law Center, Yale Law School

Shirley YAM (via Skype) - Vice-Chairperson, Hong Kong Journalists Association and Columnist, South China Morning Post

MODERATOR: Deborah DAVIS - Professor of Sociology, Yale University

TRANSLATOR: Nick FRISCH​ - Doctoral Student, Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures, Yale University

耶魯大學東亞研究中心特此提獻: 香港媒體自由何去何從？

座談會 : 年初《明報》前總編劉進圖被撤職後不久遇襲，不僅激起香港民眾群情激憤走上街頭，也讓­香港特區在「一國兩制」下的自治與新聞自由等話題引發了國際關注。歡迎加入我們的座談­會，主題為香港華文媒體的過去、現在和將來，及華文媒體在大中華經濟與文化領域所扮演­角色。

與會人士

陳志武-耶魯大學管理學院金融學教授，著有《媒體、法律與市場》

康正果-耶魯大學東亞語文系榮譽資深講師，著有《我的反動自述》

郭湯姆-開放社會基金會項目總監，耶魯法學院中國法律中心前高級研究員

任美貞-香港記者協會副主席, 《南華早報》專欄作家 (通過電視會議)

主持人：戴慧思 - 耶魯大學社會學教授
口譯者：傅楠 - 耶魯大學東亞語文系博士生

Former U.S. senator for Indiana Richard Lugar presented the George Herbert Walker Jr. Lecture in International Studies at Yale on Tuesday, Jan. 14. Titled "Modern American Foreign Policy in an Uncertain World," his talk was delivered at 4:30 p.m. in Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave. Sponsored by the Yale MacMillan Center.

Marwan Muasher is vice president for studies at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he oversees research in Washington and Beirut on the Middle East. Muasher served as foreign minister (2002-2004) and deputy prime minister (2004-2005) of Jordan, and his career has spanned the areas of diplomacy, development, civil society, and communications.

Muasher began his career as a journalist for the Jordan Times. He then served at the Ministry of Planning, at the prime minister's office as press adviser, and as director of the Jordan Information Bureau in Washington.

In 1995, Muasher opened Jordan's first embassy in Israel, and in 1996 he became minister of information and the government spokesperson. From 1997 to 2002, he served in Washington again as ambassador, negotiating the first free-trade agreement between the United States and an Arab nation. He then returned to Jordan to serve as foreign minister, where he played a central role in developing the Arab Peace Initiative and the Middle East roadmap.

In 2004, he became deputy prime minister responsible for reform and government performance and led the effort to produce a ten-year plan for political, economic, and social reform. From 2006 to 2007, he was a member of the Jordanian Senate.

From 2007 to 2010, he was senior vice president of external affairs at the World Bank.

On Monday, Congress will resume and one of its first tasks will be a decision about the US reaction to what was, according to intelligence sources, the use of chemical weapons in the suburbs of Damascus on August 21. How should America react?

Mo Ibrahim, founder of Celtel International, one of Africa's leading mobile telephone companies, and The Mo Ibrahim Foundation, which supports good governance and great leadership in Africa, gives the Coca-Cola World Fund at Yale Lecture.