On today's 123 Show we're talking about civic education with Liz Jackson, an associate professor and director of  the Comparative Education Research Centre at the University of Hong Kong. That's at 1.30. After 2, food and drink reporter Andrew Dembina joins us for our weekly chat. After 2.30, we talk to Hong Kong-born and New York-based actress Zoe Lau about breaking down stereotypes in the film industry.    (1:15pm-3pm, 123show@rthk.hk)

It’s Thursday on Morning Brew. At 10.10, undoubtedly, Steve Vines asks whether or not Hong Kong has finally turned that “one country” corner that commentators across the world have been predicting for some time now. Join him with your emails if you have something to say this morning. At 11.10 we turn our attention to Intimacy of Creativity. Once again some of the world’s great musicians come to the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology to share and perform, and we’ll meet a few of them over the next week. Today, distinguished American composer David Serkin Ludwig joins us. After 11.30 our vet Dr. David Gething returns to talk about how dogs improve YOUR health. At 12.10 our weekly wine whine with Maestro JC Viens. Finally, at 12.40 we welcome back our man JUNK! for some live Thursday music making. Join us on Facebook Live. (9:30am-1pm, email morningbrew@rthk.hk )

On Thursday's Backchat, Occupy Central sentencing. The District Court has sentenced four pro-democracy leaders for terms varying from eight to 16 months over the 2014 protests, while sparing another four custodial sentences. Legislator Tanya Chan's sentencing will be adjourned because of life-threatening condition in her brain. Pro-Beijing lawmakers said the sentencing was too lenien, while the judge said that none of the defendants expressed any regret. What do you think of the sentences? Will they inhibit freedom of expression, or simply mark its boundaries? Has justice been done?  After 9.20, the new Kai Tak Sports Park.

Leave a message here, or email us at backchat@rthk.hk, or call us after 8.30 on 23388266.

40 heads of state or government are due to attend the second Belt and Road Forum which commenced in Beijing today. The US$1 trillion project has become a defining symbol of Xi Jinping’s presidency and the ambitious plan aims to connect 100 countries through a massive infrastructure network. However, the initiative has come under fire from an increasing number of countries including Pakistan and Malaysia because of the high cost. The US, which is not sending officials to the Forum, says the project is trapping developing countries into unsustainable amounts of debt and China is seizing their assets when they can no longer afford to service the debt. Observers are waiting to see if there any signs of China recalibrating its ambitions in response to the criticism and focusing on the commercial viability of the projects rather than political ambitions. PBOC governor Yi Gang said on Thursday at the Forum that “we need to consider a countries’ complete debt-servicing capabilities.”

On Friday’s Money Talk we have the Raging Bull, Francis Lun, CEO of GEO Securities and Alan Luk, Head of Private Banking and Trust Services at Hang Seng Private Banking. Joining us on the phone from Sydney to provide the view from down under is Toby Lawson, Head of Global Markets at Societe Generale Australia.

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It’s the end of April and the time of year when many of us start to plan for our summer holidays. On this Saturday's Money Talk Xtra, presented by Peter Lewis, we have some money saving travel trips. Jimmy Lam will hear about a listener’s property reallocation plan. And in our investment segment, we’ll look at ways to measure the risk of investing. That' all on Money Talk Xtra, this Saturday morning on RTHK Radio 3, from 8:30. If you have any personal finance queries, our panel of experts are here to help. Please email moneytalk@rthk.hk or go to our Facebook page – @moneytalkx.