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Cal Wong

Cal Wong is an award winning multimedia journalist based in Hong Kong.

Cal Wong is the Hong Kong Correspondent for The Diplomat’s China Power blog and an award winning multimedia journalist based in Hong Kong. His work has been featured on the BBC, Australia’s ABC, and Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post. In 2015 he won a Human Rights Press Award for a documentary he made on the universal suffrage movement in Hong Kong. Prior to writing, he worked as a banker and was a qualified Chartered Accountant in Australia before moving to Hong Kong.

Cal has always had an interest in the interaction of people, time and space and majored in Human Geography from Macquarie University as well as earning a master’s degree in Journalism from the JMSC at University of Hong Kong. Follow him on twitter @CallyFona

Posts by Cal Wong
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April 25, 2017

Cambodian Domestic Helpers to Take the One Belt, One Road to Hong Kong

By Cal Wong
Cambodians are set to join Hong Kong’s domestic helper workforce this fall.
April 01, 2017

China's Hukou Restrictions Now Apply to Graveyards

By Cal Wong
Suzhou has become the first Chinese city to ban the purchase of grave sites by people without a local residency permit.

March 31, 2017

China’s Xinjiang Crackdown Continues

By Cal Wong
Even while Beijing pursues economic openness in the province, it's turning Xinjiang into a security state.

March 20, 2017

US Secretary of State Tillerson Meets Chinese President Xi

By Cal Wong
North Korea monopolizes the agenda as Tillerson wraps up his Beijing trip.
March 17, 2017

US, South Korea Try to Reassure China on THAAD

By Cal Wong
China continues to vocally opposed the missile defense system, despite recent statements by the U.S. and South Korea.

March 14, 2017

Hong Kong's Chief Executive CY Leung Elevated to Mainland Post

By Cal Wong
Hong Kong's controversial leader is elected vice chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.
March 01, 2017

Hong Kong's Wave of Student Suicides

By Cal Wong
Despite rising numbers of suicides, Hong Kong official insist the education system is not to blame.

March 01, 2017

33,000 Hong Kong Police Gather to Support Convicted Officers

By Cal Wong
Current and former police gather to denounce the conviction of fellow officers for beating an unarmed protester.

February 28, 2017

Hong Kong Police Officers Sentenced to Jail for Beating Umbrella Movement Protester

By Cal Wong
That judgment comes over two years after a police brutality case that scandalized Hong Kong.

February 28, 2017

Former Hong Kong Chief Executive Sentenced to Jail

By Cal Wong
Donald Tsang gets over a year in prison for a bribery scandal while he was in office.
February 10, 2017

China and the Vatican Are a Step Closer to Mending Ties

By Cal Wong
According to a Hong Kong bishop, China and the Holy See have a solution to the major issue keeping them apart.

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