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U.S. TRADE REPRESENTATIVE ROBERT B.
ZOELLICK AND
NEWS CORPORATION CHAIRMAN AND CEO RUPERT MURDOCH
TO SPEAK AT ASIA SOCIETY ANNUAL DINNER
Dinner to celebrate “The China
Connection”
Wednesday, February 25, 2004
 View information
and photos of the event
January 9, 2004— U.S. Trade Representative Robert
B. Zoellick, who serves as President Bush’s
principal trade policy adviser and chief trade negotiator,
will give a major policy address at the Asia Society Annual
Dinner, to be held in New York on February 25, the Asia Society
announced today. Rupert Murdoch, Chairman
and CEO of the News Corporation, will give the keynote speech
on investing in Asia. The dinner will be held at the Waldorf=Astoria,
301 Park Avenue at 49th Street.
Leaders of the corporate and diplomatic worlds, including
former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger,
will join in celebrating “The China Connection,”
at the dinner, which will honor key business leaders responsible
for strengthening economic, cultural and political ties between
China and the U.S., Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia.
Honorees are: Ronnie C. Chan, Chairman, Hang
Lung Group Limited; Maurice R. Greenberg,
Chairman and CEO, American International Group, Inc.; Douglas
Tong Hsu, Chairman, Far Eastern Group; and Rupert
Murdoch, Chairman and CEO, News Corporation. Honorees
will be presented with the Asia Society Leadership Award.
“The Annual Dinner will be a premier event for leaders
from the corporate and government worlds with ‘China
connections’” says Asia Society President Nicholas
Platt. “We are delighted that Ambassador Zoellick, who
completed negotiations to bring China and Taiwan into the
World Trade Organization, will speak at the event and privileged
that Mr. Murdoch will share his insights on China’s
emergence as an economic powerhouse.”
The winner of the second annual Osborn Elliott Prize for
Excellence in Asian Journalism will also be announced at the
dinner. The $10,000 prize is awarded annually to a writer
who has produced the best example of journalism about Asia
in print during the calendar year. The prize honors legendary
journalist and author Osborn Elliott, former editor-in-chief
of Newsweek, who set new standards for reporting and editing
and became one of the earliest practitioners of “civic
journalism”—the deliberate focusing of the journalistic
enterprise on urgent issues of public policy. The first prize
was awarded to Elisabeth Rosenthal of The New York Times for
her groundbreaking coverage of the AIDS crisis in China.
The dinner underwriter is American International Group, Inc.
The event will be co-chaired by: David A. Coulter,
Vice Chairman, J. P. Morgan Chase and Co.; Paul B.
Kazarian, Founder and Managing Director, Japonica
Partners; John L. Thornton, Professor and
Director of Global Leadership and Tsinghua University, Beijing.
For more information and for reservations, members of the
public should call 212.327.9269 or email AnnualDinner@AsiaSoc.org.
Asia Society is America’s leading nonprofit, nonpartisan
public education organization dedicated to broadening understanding
of Asia and of U.S.-Asia relations. The Society presents a
wide variety of educational programs on Asian contemporary
affairs and cultures for professional audiences, including
business executives, foreign affairs specialists, the media
and the general public. Asia Society programs provide a leading
forum for executives to meet the policy makers and business
leaders who shape the Asia Pacific business environment. Asia
Society is headquartered in New York, with regional centers
in Washington, D.C., Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco,
Hong Kong, Manila and Melbourne, Australia, and a representative
office in Shanghai.
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