Ocean and climate reporting
Inside the battle over trawling a 200-year-old deep-sea fish
A conversation with a deep-sea ecologist led me to delve deeper into the fisheries of a 200-year-old fish, orange roughy. New Zealand’s chequered history of trawling for this valuable species has set conservationists against fishers for years.
Why are we hauling these long-living creatures from the deep ocean? Who is consuming them?
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Investigating overfishing
Behind Gambia's fish scarcity
I curated a photo essay that captures the hardships facing the Gambia due to the declining fish population and foreign-owned fishmeal operations
How the ‘Galápagos of West Africa’ is plundered by floating fish factories
I was part of a cross-border investigation that looked at Guinea-Bissau’s floating fishmeal factories, published on the Guardian and DeSmog
Paying back the sea: A Balinese fisher’s tale
I talked with fishers and local conservationists about a project that has brought poisoned reefs back to life
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Analysis
What does COP15 teach us about environmental cooperation with China?
An analysis of the success of Canada’s cooperation with China in leading global initiatives on biodiversity
Shipping climate negotiations
How countries failed to steer shipping to net zero
Amid threats and tears, nations failed to sign off a deal to curb the sector’s huge appetite for fossil fuels
Global green shipping deal still on course, say advocates
While the latest talks were less fraught than October’s, the International Maritime Organization (IMO)’s Net-Zero Framework is far from a done deal
Politics and society
Between barricades: A Hong Kong story
A multimedia personal photo essay about the Hong Kong protests in 2019. I picked up my camera and documented the months-long struggle while I was working as an international news reporter
Videos and documentaries
Short film: A Uyghur Woman tries to keep her culture
As signs back home showed the Chinese government is eradicating their identity by restricting cultural and religious practices, the Uyghur diaspora community in London is determined to keep their culture alive (BBC)
Documentary: Asian Hate in United Kingdom
An investigation of how to stop racial abuse faced by East and Southeast Asians in Britain after the Covid-19 pandemic (Channel News Asia)
Other features
Ukraine War: Hong Kongers’ Journeys in Support of Ukraine
As the flood of refugees continues to pour out of Ukraine into neighbouring countries, a trickle of international volunteers quietly streams the other way – heading into the embattled country. Among the stream of international volunteers were a small number of Hong Kongers
"My daughter won't be safe there”: Hong Kong single mother start Life from scratch with daughter in the UK
A long-form article featuring a Hong Kong single-parent family that migrated to the UK after waves of political crackdowns in the city
Policing in Hong Kong: Unreliable witnesses
An award-winning article that reveals police officers had a practice of giving unreliable testimony in legal cases related to social movements. My co-author and I won the University Chinese-Language Writing Prize at the 20th Annual Human Rights Press Awards for the article
