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...What began in 1999 as a Hong Kong journal of prose and poetry known as Dim Sum - a part-time labor of love produced, somewhat intermittently, by Hong Kong author Nury Vittachi - took on a new lease of life when, in late 2006, U.K.-based banker and arts patron Ilyas Khan bought out the publication. He restyled it as the ALR, publishing it under the umbrella of his Asia-focused literary publishing agency and film-production business, Creative Work. "We purposely decided not to restrict ourselves to Hong Kong," says Khan, previously a director of the Man Hong Kong International...
...local talent is a little less lustrous, but that actually proves the genius behind the festival. Co-founders Jane Camens and Nury Vittachi, both literary-minded journalists, envisioned cosmopolitan Hong Kong as the perfect center in which to showcase "great writing with Asian roots," a category that can include just about anything with a gloss of soy sauce: expats writing Asia-based historical fiction, hyphenated Asians getting back to their roots, nonfiction writers discovering the region. Not to mention the proliferating literary output from the other side of the border with mainland China. Asian books are hot in the literary...
Most panelists agreed that the truth and the public interest should be the primary considerations in deciding what to publish. But Tarzie Vittachi, a former editor of the Sri Lanka Observer and moderator of the forum, said he believed no reporting can be totally absent of value judgments because of differences in cultural backgrounds...
After the discussion, Vittachi called upon the journalists in the audience to cite instances when they would not publish a story...
...panel of journalists consisted of Lubis, Vittachi, Jaqueline Grapin, financial editor of Le Monde, and Silviu Brucan, a Rumanian journalist...
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