Asia's foreign press clubs recalibrate amid regional political changes

Bogdan Hofbauer

Jan. 15 (UPI) -- For decades, Asia's foreign correspondent clubs were the region's off-duty newsrooms -- the late-night debating halls where journalists compared notes on wars, coups, trade deals, democratic uprisings and China's rise. Now those storied institutions, once synonymous with a freewheeling press culture, are confronting a slow sunset. No club illustrates this more clearly than the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Hong Kong . Long considered the spiritual home of Asia's foreign press

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