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Catergories: Interviews
Politics and Identity: North Korean Exiles
Date: Wednesday, 17 March 2010
Time: 18:30 - 20:00
Place: The Helena May, 35 Garden Rd
RTHK’s Hugh Chiverton met author Hyejin Kim on her book, Jia: A Novel of North Korea, the first novel about present-day North Korea to be published in English.
Catergories: Interviews
Journalist, novelist and Latin scholar Angelo Paratico tells us why he compares CY Leung to...Nero. Also he gives some introductions of his books to readers.
Catergories: Book
When she gets the email announcing her redundancy, Ruby Stanhope hopes to maintain the composure expected of your average London investment banker.
Instead, the next day's hangover brings two unfortunate discoveries. First, her impromptu reply to the bosses has gone viral, published everywhere from Facebook to the Financial Times. Second, she has a...
Catergories: Book
Mahathir Mohamad turned Malaysia into one of the developing worlds most successful economies. He adopted pragmatic economic policies alongside repressive political measures and showed that Islam was compatible with representative government and modernization. He emerged as a Third World champion and Islamic spokesman by standing up to the West.
Table of...
Catergories: Interviews
Jessica Rudd spoke to Sarah Passmore about her first novel.
Catergories: Interviews
Caroline Courtauld and her publisher Magnus Bartlett talk to Phil Whelan about their new book "Myanmar: Burma in Style" and shed light on today's Burma politics.
Catergories: Interviews
John Garnaut joins Phil Whelan to talk about his latest book 'The Rise and Fall of the House of Bo'. A very timely work that which sheds light on, and breaks down the rather complex story of the Bo Xilai "scandal" and his family's recent history. Ian Johnson for the New York Review of Books says, "it's by far the most carefully researched and sober analysis of a...
Catergories: Interviews
China expert and author, Martin Jacques, is visiting Hong Kong to promote the new edition of his book titled "When China Rules the World". The book has become a global bestseller and has been translated into 11 languages, as well as shortlisted for two major literary awards. Peter King asks Martin Jacques for more.
Catergories: Book
In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. One phrase in particular anchored itself in listeners’ minds, a reminder that for all the discord and struggle to be found in our history as a nation, we have always been guided by a dogged optimism in the future, or what...
Catergories: Interviews
Andrew Wood from RTHK talks to Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh, a commentator on economic and political issues in Asia who works with the Economist Intelligence Unit, and finds out more about the fates of these two countries and how the lives of their people have changed.
The event details as follows
Title: The Slow Road from Authoritarianism to Democracy: Where are...
