Anjali Rao

Anjali Rao is a journalist and anchor for CNN International, where she has worked since January 2006. She often presents CNN International news broadcasts live from CNN’s Asia headquarters in Hong Kong —her birthplace— and fronts CNN features such as "TalkAsia".

Background

Rao was educated in Hong Kong and at London's , where she earned a bachelor's degree with honors in Sociology and Media Studies. In an edition of TalkAsia, she described herself as being "half Indian and half Australian."

Before joining CNN, Rao worked as a producer and reporter at Hong Kong's Wharf Cable Television and worked at in Melbourne, Australia. She went on to work at Star TV where she won the top prize at the 2004 Amnesty International Human Rights Press Awards. She is probably best known in the UK as the former presenter for Sky News and news.

Alison Chiu

Alison Chiu is a and reporter on TVB News in Hong Kong. After graduating from the University of Hong Kong in 2004, she began her career as a reporter at tvbN channel in exTV first. Her first anchoring in TVB Jade is May 3, 2004 during News Roundup . Within a few weeks, she was promoted by the TVB news management to anchor the 6:30pm News at TVB Jade Channel - arguably the most-privileged post for television journalists in Hong Kong.

The move by TVB news management was somewhat a surprise to Hong Kong television viewers. Traditionally, journalists at TVB news would start from a more junior role of reporting news, and then gradually move up the seniority ladder until he/she would anchor news programmes. The process would normally take a year or a few years at best. However, Chiu was by far more inexperienced, but visually more attractive, than most of her colleagues. Many speculated that unconventional move by TVB news management was driven by Chiu's visual attractiveness, which would in turn drive viewers' figures for the 6:30pm News to an even higher level.

On 16 December 2006, she left TVB to work in a financial institution, reportedly according to the 27 December 2006 edition of Eastweek magazine.

Starting from 5 February 2007, Chiu also writes a regular column for the free local morning paper .

Alan Alanson

Alan Alanson is a satirical business writer and humorist, whose articles cover banking, business practices and the comedy of corporate life. His articles are published weekly in the South China Morning Post, a Hong Kong based newspaper. The author is also a senior executive at a major international bank.

Recent Articles include ''"I had a bad day at the airport, so shoot me"'' a comedic analysis of airport security procedures, ''"Unacceptable risk in a game that can't be won"'', a discussion of the interaction between front office and the risk departments at major banks, and ''"When telling the truth will surely cost you the job"'' a satirical comment on the hypocrisy of job interviews. Over the course of the last twelve months in the South China Morning Post, Alanson has written on topics from equity markets to dining etiquette to business politics. In the otherwise dry world of banking, Alanson stands out as a keen and humorous observer of the foibles of the modern commercial world of banks, business and blackberries.

Alan Alanson is a senior investment banker in the Hong Kong office of an international bank. His writing draws on the experiences, colleagues and confusion of his day-to-day activities as a banker. While Alanson regularly comments on the banking industry, his work generally covers the wider issues faced by every businessman every day.

Alan Alanson's work appears weekly in the print and on-line versions of the South China Morning Post.

List of Hong Kong journalists

List of Hong Kong journalist, past and present:

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* Tesa Arcilla, TVB reporter and producer

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* Chan Oui Yee, ATV news reporter
* Cheung Pui Ling, TVB newscaster on Good Morning HK
* Lavender Cheung, i-Cable TV chief anchor
* Cheung Wai-tsz, former Cable TV reporter, now ATV Home journalist and news anchor
* Alison Chiu, former TVB news reporter
* Sin-chun Chiu, NOW business program co-host
* Winnie Chui, NOW reporter/newscaster; formerly with TVB and Cable TV

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* Kwok Tse Ting, ATV news reporter based in Guangzhou

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* Wai-shing Lai, NOW business program anchor
* Yin-ling Lam , NOW business news reporter
* Kaman Lee, TVB newsvcaster, formerly with ATV

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* Renato Reyes, ATV journalist

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* Stanley So, former TVB news reporter and anchor; former Fairchild TV ; now with OMNI TV
* Mei Ling Sze, KTSF news co-anchor; formerly TVB news reporter

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* Carman M Tsang, Cable TV news journalist

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* Peter Wong , sports personality
* Louisa Wong, former TVB newscaster; now TVB documentary host
* Jolly Wong, Cable TV news anchor
* Mei Wong, Cable TV news anchor; formerly with TVB news
* Tori Wong, NOW TV reporter/newscaster
* Ruby Wu, NOW TV reporter, formerly with Cable TV News

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* Joanne Yung, Cable TV news anchor
* Carmen Yip, NOW newscaster, formerly ATV news reporter

Joanne Yung

Joanne Yung Yuen-Wah is a on Cable TV Hong Kong.

Ip Yut Kin

Ip Yut Kin is chief executive officer of Apple Daily Limited and Apple Daily Publication Development Limited, the publishers of the Hong Kong and Taiwan versions of ''Apple Daily''. Ip is also a director of Next Media Limited.

Ip was from 1996 to 2002 editor-in-chief of the Hong Kong version of ''Apple Daily''. In addition, for several years, he wrote a column known as "Brother Kin with You" in ''Apple Daily''.

Ip is a graduate of the National Chengchi University in Taiwan.

Francis Moriarty

Francis Moriarty is senior political reporter for Radio Television Hong Kong , the of Hong Kong. Responsible for reporting, analysis and commentary on all , he was RTHK's lead reporter covering the 1997 , and has covered every election there since 1991. He has also reported major regional and world stories, including the , the United States-led invasion of Iraq and the September 11 terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center.

He is a member of Board of Governors of the Foreign Correspondents' Club , founding chairman of FCC Press Freedom Committee and founding organiser of Human Rights Press Awards. His work has been published in numerous newspapers here and abroad, and on many local and overseas radio and television broadcasts.

Moriarty was a Fellow at the Journalists in Europe programme at the French National Journalism Centre. He holds an MJ degree from the University of California, Berkeley and a BA degree from Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. He has been living and working in Hong Kong since 1989, married in Hong Kong in 2006.

Emily Lau

Emily Lau Wai-hing is currently the convenor of , a pro-democracy in Hong Kong. She is a full-time member of the since 1991, elected from the Geographical Constituency of New Territories East.

Lau obtained her BA degree at the University of Southern California, in 1976, and earned her M. Sc. degree in International Relations at the , University of London. She began her career as a journalist in 1976. From 1987 to 1990 she was a lecturer in the Department of Journalism and Communication of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and also a lecturer of the Certificate in Journalism in the Department of Extra Mural Studies of the University of Hong Kong.

Lau was the chairperson of the Hong Kong Journalists Association from 1989 to 1991. She was the first woman to be directly elected into the Legislative Council in September 1991, and co-founded the Frontier in 1996. She served as a legislator until 1997, and was re-elected into LegCo since 1998.

Lau took a relatively aggressive political platform in the democratic camp, as reflected in the platform of The Frontier. She demanded a redraft of the , Hong Kong's constitutional document, demanded democratisation in China. She also pushed for promotion of human rights, more efforts on equal opportunities, and establish statutory right to access to information. On economy she supported legislation on fair trading, oppose importation of foreign labours, and called for minimum wage.

She was an outspoken critic of the human rights situation, the progress of democratization and a number of other policy areas in the HKSAR. She was skeptical of the implementation of "One country two systems" principle. Her actions sparkled controversies in several occasions.

Marriage

Lau has been married twice. In 1982, she married a Sunday Times journalist but divorced soon after. In 1989, she went to Great Britain to discuss the Hong Kong Basic Law with members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She met Winston Poon, a famous solicitor in Hong Kong. They married until their divorce in 2006.

Criticisms and controversies

In 1998, she sued the Hong Kong branch of the Xinhua News Agency due to the latter's slow response over her queries for personal information. She lost the case and was ordered by the court to pay a legal fee of HKD 1.6 million. Claiming that her lawsuit was for public interest, she attempted to raise fund from the public to repay the debt. In December 2000, with over 1 million still outstanding, the agency applied to the court for her bankruptcy.

In 2003, Lau and another legislator, James To of the , attended a seminar entitled "Hong Kong Under One Country, Two Systems" organised by a pro-Taiwan independence group headed by former ROC President Lee Teng-hui. Lau stated that "Taiwan's future should be determined by the Taiwan people themselves".

As a Hong Kong legislator, her attendance at the forum and her recognition of Taiwan's right for self-determination caused controversies and criticisms in Hong Kong and the PRC. This is because the PRC sees Taiwan as an integral part of China. Her subsequent refusal to explicitly recognise Taiwan as a part of China when interviewed drew more criticisms. In her own defence, Lau said that she was exercising her right to speak freely; criticisms of her right to speech from government officials put that freedom in doubt.

Criminal incidents against Lau

Lau was the subject of several criminal nuisance cases in the past, including telephone nuisance to her office in January and October 2003, and two cases where food / faeces were splashed outside her office in Shatin in July and September 2003. A woman and an old man had been arrested and fined by the Police for some of the cases above.

An arson attack against Lau's office took place on 21 June 2004. Lau's posters calling for participation in an upcoming rally in July 2004, posted outside her office, were burnt. Words were left saying "All Chinese traitors must die".

Claudia Mo

Claudia Mo Man Ching is the founding member of Civic Party of Hong Kong. She was graduated from the Bachelor degree in journalism with English studies of Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She was a journalist and worked in Agence France-Presse, Hong Kong Standard and TVB. She also hosted a number of RTHK TV and radio programmes, including "Media Watch" and "City Forum". She is married to journalist Philip Bowring and they have two sons.


She represented Civic Party to take part in the Geographical constituency of Hong Kong legislative election, 2008, but she was defeated.

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Ching Cheong

Ching Cheong is a senior journalist with ''The Straits Times''. He is best known for having been detained by the People's Republic of China for alleged espionage accused of providing state secrets to Taiwan, while receiving millions of dollars in rewards. He was imprisoned from April 2005 to February 2008 having spent more than 1000 days in prison.

Life

Ching was born in China on December 3, 1949. He was educated in St. Paul's College, Hong Kong, and graduated from Hong Kong University in 1973 with a degree in Economics.

In 1974, he joined the pro-China newspaper Wen Wei Po , of which he eventually became vice-editorial manager. After the of June 4, 1989, Ching and around 40 other journalists resigned from the newspaper in protest.

In June 2005, the Hong Kong Journalists Association and Reporters Without Borders organized a calling for Ching's immediate release from unfair detention. The petition, containing more than 13,000 signatures, was sent to Hu Jintao, President of the People's Republic of China. The International Federation of Journalists and the Committee to Protect Journalists have also protested Ching Cheong's detention. The British Government was also asked to as Ching Cheong holds a British National passport.

On January 12, 2006, 35 legislative councillors including 10 pro-Beijing councillors signed an open letter asking the Chinese authorities to release Ching unless there was sufficient evidence.

On February 22, 2006, the prosecutor in charge of Ching's case decided to send his file back to the State Security Department for further investigation. The trial was thus delayed for at least one month.

Ching was tried ''in camera'', found guilty of spying, and was sentenced on August 31, 2006 to five years' imprisonment.
The family's statement on the same day claimed the verdict to be extremely biased, adopting only evidence of the Procuratorate while ignoring almost all defence arguments and Ching's self-defence.

On September 1, 2006 Ching's wife reported that her husband had called the verdict "very unfair" and vowed to appeal the sentence.

On 5 February, 2008, the Chinese government announced that they had released Ching from prison early, in advance of the Chinese New Year holiday.

Published works

*''Will Taiwan Break Away: The Rise of Taiwanese Nationalism'' ISBN 981-02-4486-X
*with Ching Hung-Yee: ''Handbook on China's WTO Accession and Its Impacts'' ISBN 981-238-061-2

Cheung Wai-tsz

Cheung Wai Tsz is a television journalist and news anchor on in Hong Kong.

Cheung began her career with the Hong Kong gossip magazine Next Magazine in 1995 as a business reporter, and later joined as news anchor in 1997. She left Cable TV for ATV in 2003.

Carman M Tsang

Carman Mei Wah Tsang is a Hong Kong television newsreader and journalist working currently for Cable TV Hong Kong. She joined Cable TV in 2004 after graduating in Business from .

As well as participating in an MTV clip of a local musical artist, Carman has found work as a part-time advertising and magazine model prior to becoming a newsreader.