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    Primrose Riordan

    Former South China Correspondent

    Primrose Riordan wrote about Hong Kong city as well as Macau and South China. Before joining the Financial Times, she was a reporter at The Australian Financial Review, The Australian and The Canberra Times. She was a recipient of the Wallace Brown Young Achiever Award.

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    • Sunday, 4 June, 2023
      News in-depthUS-China trade dispute
      China set to account for less than half of US’s low-cost imports from Asia

      Reshoring index shows inbound Chinese goods fell to lowest level in 10 years amid geopolitical tensions

      Cranes and cargo ships at Nanjing port in China’s eastern Jiangsu province
    • Wednesday, 31 May, 2023
      News in-depthAirlines
      How Singapore Airlines soared while regional rival Cathay Pacific stalled

      Post-pandemic success comes as Hong Kong carrier struggles to recover

      Cathay Pacific and Singapore Airlines planes
    • Monday, 22 May, 2023
      Travel & leisure industry
      Macau casinos mount comeback as mass-market players return

      Galaxy Entertainment says net revenue has recovered to more than half its pre-pandemic figures

      The Galaxy Macau casino and hotel
    • Wednesday, 10 May, 2023
      Hong Kong politics
      Hong Kong to ban foreign lawyers from national security cases

      Law giving city’s chief executive discretion over defendants’ representation sends chill through legal sector

      The Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong
    • Tuesday, 2 May, 2023
      Chinese business & finance
      China’s ‘men in black’ step up scrutiny of foreign corporate sleuths

      Raids on consultancies reveal mounting risks of performing due diligence

      View of the financial district of Lujiazui during sunrise in Shanghai
    • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
      Inside BusinessGambling industry
      An overdue reckoning for Macau’s casinos

      The falling of a gambling kingpin has raised questions about the industry reliance on ‘junket’ operators

      A croupier counts the chips at a baccarat gaming table inside a casino at the Sands Cotai Central in Macau
    • Tuesday, 18 April, 2023
      Chinese politics & policy
      Catholic envoy visits Beijing as China-Vatican tensions simmer

      Deal over appointment of bishops appears to be fraying

      Stephen Chow
    • Monday, 17 April, 2023
      Chinese business & finance
      Chinese company moves some production abroad to escape geopolitics

      US clients had told the water-heater maker Vanward to shift elsewhere to continue co-operation

      Workers assembling products at a Vanward factory production line in China
    • Monday, 17 April, 2023
      US-China trade dispute
      China starts retaliation against foreign groups after US-led tech blockade

      Spectre of hostage diplomacy returns following raids on offices of western companies

      A Lockheed Martin F-35C Joint Strike Fighter
    • Wednesday, 12 April, 2023
      Hong Kong politics
      Hong Kong emigrants to UK blocked from accessing £2.2bn in pensions

      City’s government is ‘punishing’ former residents by locking up funds, says activist group

      Passengers in the departure hall at Hong Kong International Airport
    • Monday, 10 April, 2023
      News in-depthHong Kong economy
      Hong Kong’s richest families hit by property slide

      Beijing’s increased control of former British colony has chipped away at power of territory’s tycoons

      Victor Li of CK Asset
    • Friday, 31 March, 2023
      World36 min
      North Korea and the triads: gangsters, ghost ships and spies | FT Film

      How Chinese criminal networks help to support Kim Jong Un's nuclear ambitions

      North Korea - The Triad Connection - FT Film
    • Wednesday, 29 March, 2023
      Visual investigation
      Inside North Korea’s oil smuggling: triads, ghost ships and underground banks

      An investigation into the Chinese criminal networks helping to prop up the rogue nuclear regime

      A CGI reconstruction of the Unica, a vessel known to deliver oil to North Korea, in front of a map of East Asia
    • Friday, 24 March, 2023
      Chinese business & finance
      Chinese authorities raid US due diligence firm Mintz

      Closure of Beijing office comes as China prepares to welcome international chief executives

      Beijing shrouded in smog
    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
      Art Basel Hong Kong 2023
      Hong Kong galleries thrive despite lockdowns and crackdowns

      Dealers were expanding old spaces and opening new ones as the city’s art market surpassed London’s

      A bright busy painting of many scenes, including two people hugging in bright robes and a figure covered in a bright robe holding up their finger
    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      Hong Kong politics
      Hong Kong to make first ministerial visit to UK in 3 years

      Post-Covid charm offensive comes as Rishi Sunak seeks thaw in trade relations with China

      View of buildings from Victoria Peak in Hong Kong
    • Monday, 6 March, 2023
      Hong Kong
      Hong Kong political elite pressed to give up western passports

      Beijing denied at least one delegate a parliamentary seat because they held a foreign travel document

      Montage featuring a Hong Kong passport, a UK passport and the emblem of Hong Kong
    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      Hong Kong
      Hong Kong’s slow unmasking reveals lasting Covid habits

      Asian financial hub was one of last places to lift mandate but many prefer to keep faces covered

    • Thursday, 2 March, 2023
      FT News Briefing podcast9 min listen
      Salesforce catches a break

      Bridgewater to cut jobs in first shake-up since founder Ray Dalio ceded control of hedge fund

    • Tuesday, 28 February, 2023
      Hong Kong
      Hong Kong ditches Covid mask mandate after 945 days

      Government drops most visible pandemic control as it seeks to revive financial hub

      People wear face masks in an MTR station in Hong Kong
    • Tuesday, 28 February, 2023
      Chinese trade
      Chinese factories launch charm offensive for buyers after Covid isolation

      Local governments send delegations to global trade fairs to woo back customers and fight decoupling

      Workers at a garment factory in Guangzhou, China
    • Monday, 27 February, 2023
      Asia-Pacific economy
      How Singapore stacks up against Hong Kong in battle of Asia hubs

      FT analysis of real estate prices, air traffic and other indicators suggests Chinese territory has lost ground in recent years

      Singapore and Hong Kong skylines against backdrop of flags
    • Tuesday, 21 February, 2023
      Brexit
      Fortnum & Mason chief urges Sunak to agree N Ireland trade deal

      Tom Athron says UK food exports to EU ‘almost impossible’ without agreement

      Tom Athron
    • Thursday, 9 February, 2023
      News in-depthHong Kong economy
      Hong Kong reopens with post-Covid charm offensive

      City pins its hopes on a comeback after its economy was battered by three years of lockdowns

      People look at Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong
    • Monday, 6 February, 2023
      Hong Kong politics
      Hong Kong pro-democracy activists go on trial in landmark national security case

      Delayed proceedings against 47 defendants could extinguish city’s opposition

      A protester stands behind a mock jail with photos of the 47 Hong Kong pro-democracy figures in September 2021
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