Founded in 1958, The Foreign Correspondents' Club of South Asia, New Delhi, was known as the Foreign Correspondents' Association (FCA) during 1958-1990, and acquired its present name in 1990, when James Clad was President. The present logo came into existence the following year, when David Housego was President.

The Club moved into its present premises at AB-19, Mathura Road, New Delhi - 110001 in 1991. At the initiative of that year's President David Housego, then Indian Finance Minister Dr Manmohan Singh helped the Club to procure this government building on payment of commercial rent.

The FCC began as an exclusive club of foreign correspondents, who are based in India and cover the seven countries that comprise the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) - India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, The Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka - as well as Afghanistan.

The Club's members are electronically connected with each other, and all of them can be contacted in an instant through email. This makes the FCC South Asia's first cyber press club and the club's own website (www.fccsouthasia.net), which provides the information about all its members.

The Club organizes press conferences and interactive sessions with prominent newsmakers and celebrities and hosts food festivals and cultural evenings. The Club had hosted a galaxy of eminent people, including former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Tyronne Fernando, Colombian Foreign Minister Ms Carolina Barco, Former Indian Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal and Sheshank, Wipro Chairman Azim Premji, the new Chief of Infosys Nandan Nilekani, Nasscom President Kiran Karnik, Bollywood actor Dev Anand, Film Directors Mani Ratnam and Govind Nihalan, Theatre personality Arundhati nag and Author Major-General Ian Cardozo and prominent Indian Minister, Ambassadors and High Commissioners.

The Club now has 429 members on its rolls, of which 130 members joined our Club during the last 12 months. During the same period, 128 members have either left India on other assignments or ceased to be members for other reasons. Those on FCC roles now include 191 Regular Members: journalists working for about a hundred leading media organizations from more than 25 countries across the globe. The rest consist of 211 Associate Members (including 14 diplomats and dozens of journalists and other professionals working for Indian newspapers, television networks, NGOs, and senior government officials), 23 Corporate members, three Spouse members and one Honorary member.

To promote goodwill, the Club presents FCC Honorary Membership cards to all the New Delhi-based Ambassadors and High Commissioners. And this gesture has been widely appreciated by the diplomatic community.

While foreign correspondents - Indian and foreign journalists working for the global media - are the Club's "Regular" members, the FCC also admits journalists working for the Indian media, New Delhi-based diplomats, officials working for UN agencies and NGOs, as "Associate" members, senior executives of companies and corporations as "Corporate" members and spouses of all such members as "Spouse" members.

The office-bearers are elected by "regular" members annually, and decisions are taken collectively by the President, Vice-President, Treasurer and members of the Managing Committee. The FCC publishes an annual directory of its members.