Talking points

Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying joins a special lunch at the city's Foreign Correspondents Club to give a speech entitled "Hong Kong: the next five years". Leung has endured a tough start to his term in the city's top job and foreign journalists are expected to put him on the spot over controversies including the row over national education and the illegal structures at his home on The Peak.

Nobel Literature Prize laureate Mo Yan meets the media in the Swedish capital Stockholm as he prepares to accept the award next week. Mo's books have sold like hotcakes since he became the first Chinese national to win the award and he is expected to face a series of questions from the international press on his success - as well as claims that he has not done enough to fight censorship.