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  • CNN marks 10th anniversary Hong Kong handover

    Submitted by ITV Production on Jun 25
    indiantelevision.com Team

    MUMBAI: News broadcaster CNN marked the tenth anniversary of the handover of power in Hong Kong with live reports, special features, profiles of ordinary Hong Kong people and a dedicated website featuring free archive footage from 1997. Anchor Andrew Stevens leads the network?s coverage and also looks back to reporting as he watched the PLA roll into the city ten years ago. Special reports air from 28 June with dedicated coverage airing throughout the day on 1 July.

    CNN is to report live from across Hong Kong and feature the official dinner with Chinese President Hu and Hong Kong CEO Donald Tsang, their flag raising ceremony and the harbour firework spectacular on 1 July that marks the anniversary.

    Online at www.cnn.com/hongkong features free video of CNN?s coverage from 1997, excerpts from Talk Asia with Donald Tsang and Andrew Lau, galleries of Hong Kong people and sights and in-depth articles looking at challenges the city faces. The site also asks people around the world to submit their own thoughts on the anniversary through email, mobile images and film via CNN?s unique ?I-Report? service.

    Special packages include Eunice Yoon speaking to a family who left Hong Kong for Canada, worried at what Chinese rule may mean. Years later however, they are back and thriving in the city?s vibrant economy.

    Andrew Stevens profiles taxi driver Eddie Lai who longs for the days when the British ruled Hong Kong. Ten years on, Lai says life for your average Hong Kong resident is getting worse. While the city?s wealthy are making even more, Lai?s average monthly income is now almost half what it was before the handover.

    Andrew also interviews outspoken media mogul Jimmy Lai. He has established Hong Kong?s most popular newspaper and weekly magazine although his publications have been fearless and fiercely critical of Hong Kong and Beijing?s leadership. He has openly encouraged the Hong Kong population to take to the streets and protest, but importantly, he is still allowed to say and publish these ideas.

     
       
  • Social entrepreneur voices on CNN in special series

    Submitted by ITV Production on Jun 12
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    MUMBAI: On Sunday June 24, CNN will telecast its special series, ?Principal Voices on Social Entrepreneurs? which will celebrate the contemporary entrepreneural spirit, reflecting social change.

    Principal Voices looks at 3 social entrepreneurs leading from the front: Social activist Kailash Satyarthi, who is using the power of the market to end child labour and slavery in South Asia; businessman Rory Stear who is using his entrepreneurial onus to empower the continent of Africa; and professor Rick Aubry from Stanford Business School who?s spent 20 years tackling homelessness in the San Francisco Bay area.

    The series will reflect the changing patterns in creating sustainable support and growth for the developing world. Hard nose commerce is being hailed as the new way forward in new age philanthropy.

    Together they will demonstrate how business decisions don?t have to be just about financial profits for shareholders but can also make huge social improvements for their stakeholders.

  • CNN to gaze at virtual worlds

    Submitted by ITV Production on Jun 04
    indiantelevision.com Team

    MUMBAI: Virtual worlds have enabled vistas on movie screens, heart-pounding action in computer games, bought millions of people together and transformed the way we communicate with each other. News broadcaster CNN has announced that its show, CNN Future Summit, gets to the heart of these remarkable developments with the biggest global players leading this digital revolution. The show airs on 13 June at 7:30 pm; 16 June at 11:30 am and 7:30 pm; 17 June at 11: 30 am; 14 July 14 at 11:30 am and 7:30 pm; and 15 July at 11:30 am.

    The show?s anchor Kristie Lu Stout looks at the blurring lines between reality and imagination and how these technological developments are shaping our communities and the lives of our children. Distinguished panelists include the founders of Wikipedia, Second Life, Flickr and EA in addition to renowned academics and psychologists who together form a vision of our future, today.

    And what will this future look like? The ability to always be in touch with friends and family will be greatly enhanced when we?re able to see each other in absolute clarity, anywhere, anytime. We?ll find ourselves living, shopping and working more and more inside online worlds. And in the future, you won?t be sitting on your couch being passively entertained. Films will become more interactive and more immersive, while games will become more cinematic and realistic. Indeed the program itself also utilizes many cutting edge techniques used in modern film and television production in order to capture the fascinating future of virtual worlds.

    CNN Future Summit is a two-year multi-media program produced in association with the Singapore Tourist Board (STB), which aims to stimulate global discussion.

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