The East-West Centre’s International Media Conference is being held at SMU Hall, School of Law building 24—27 June 2018. The conference is co-hosted by the East-West Centre, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and SMU, while The Straits Times is a gold sponsor. This year’s theme is “What is News Now?” Media practitioners, policy makers and tech giants are expected to gather to discuss the technological, political and social upheavals that have rocked the world and the repercussions they have on news production and the role of the media. Keynote panel members Dr Janil Puthucheary, Senior Minister of State for Communications and Information as well as Transport; Mr Warren Fernandez, editor-in-chief of Singapore Press Holdings' English/Malay/Tamil Media Group; Hong Kong Baptist University media professor Cherian George; and Facebook's head of public policy for Asean, Malaysia and Singapore Alvin Tan will speak about the scourge of fake news on Monday.