Peter Yeung
@ptr_yeung
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Roving freelance journalist. Special projects, solutions, digital storytelling, data reporting, arts, travel & food. Couteau suisse. peter.g.yeung @gmail .com
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It was a life highlight to visit the Kajang, an Indigenous tribe from Indonesia for
@washingtonpost
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How can we save the world's rainforests? They may have the answer.
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NEW: YouGov estimates for
@thetimes
show the Tory party are currently set to be 16 seats short of an overall majority
#tomorrowspaperstoday
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Air ambulance just landed at Parliament Square, Westminster, dozens of police cars
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Jeremy Corbyn's win: largest turnout in Islington North since 1951. Largest winning vote ever
#GE2017
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I was just at London Bridge station and group of three white guys started shouting racist abuse and making machine gun gestures at a National Rail worker who was female and Arabic
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Anyway, I’ll be reporting it. Thanks for the solidarity. I’ve got very low battery and have a date, so over and out 💪🏽
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I went to the world's epicentre of nickel production - a key component of EV batteries - for
@WIRED
.
The dirty truth behind this green energy transition is that workers are dying, locals are starving and an Indonesian island's ecosystem is vanishing.
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It's something in my eye. I'm definitely not crying. Thousands singing "don't look back in anger"
#OneLoveManchester
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Me, trying to work during the summer in France: Can we set up an interview next week?
The French: No. How about at the end of the summer?
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When the people who are supposed to be helping and protecting us act like that, trying to sweep it under the carpet, how are we supposed to feel safe?
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My investigation for
@thetimes
: Children are being lured to the UK on the promise of playing for Premier League football clubs only to be enslaved as labourers and sexually exploited - and their captors are evading imprisonment:
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Police just tackled a man to the ground and started searching him. Police shouted it's an "active situation"
#LondonBridge
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November 2016: Buzzfeed CEO Jonah Peretti refuses to allow UK staff to unionise, in case they make any "irreversible decisions" (such as creating job protection)
December 2017: Buzzfeed UK proposes to make 45 of its 140 staff redundant
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Zac Goldsmith: I love Bollywood
Interviewer: Do you have a favourite actor or film?
Zac: *Fails*
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One witness tells me he saw police shooting into Brindisa Tapas bar at Borough Market
#LondonBridge
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Then another member of staff, who was a person of colour, thanked me and shook hand.
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I called them out on it and told them to stop. At which point they started racially abusing me. I went to lodge a complaint with a member of staff and took photos of them
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A witness has told me that there are around a dozen people lying down on Westminster Bridge and they "look very injured"
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“In an otherwise darkened street, the kebab shop is the light that never goes out” says
@ibrahim_Dogus
in a glorious, emotional speech at
#britishkebabawards
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In fact, one staff member, who was white, told me: “I know it’s no excuse, but they are drunk”. When I said I wanted to report to the British Transport Police, a separate white member of staff ignored my request and said there was no need
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I could do a long read on the French reality TV show Koh-Lanta but the latest twist is that the production has been forced to give two contestants, who are supposed to be self-sufficient on a tropical island, pains au chocolat to stop they from striking:
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One of the men assaulted me, grabbed me by the neck and tried to take my phone. All the while, little was being done by the other staff.
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Ruth Davidson being heckled at the
@TheOrwellPrize
. Things escalated rather quickly
#orwelldavidson
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NEW: 2017 marks the highest number of female MPs ever elected - 192 - with many seats still to call 😍
#GE2017
#GeneralElection
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@LewisSteele_
I see where you’re going with this, but none of those players come from Spanish-speaking countries
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Here's my investigation for
@guardian
into how Greece is illegally denying entry to asylum seekers, based on a tranche of evidence including interviews with victims, NGO testimonies and video footage:
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My god, the incredible Gibert Jeune bookshop in Saint-Michel is set to close in March 2021. After Tati's closure, I don't know if I can take this anymore:
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Months in the making, here's my investigation for
@VICEWorldNews
into how the cultivation of palm oil plantations in Indonesia's least-developed province, Papua, is destroying Asia's largest remaining rainforest. Thanks to
@GRIDArendal
for funding this:
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Interesting social media analysis of the events surrounding the exit of Evo Morales by
@firstdraftnews
. Suggests a coordinated attempt to say “there was no coup”
2. After the recent resignation of the Bolivian president, nearly 20k accounts shared the narrative ‘in Bolivia there was no coup’. We found that nearly 30% were created this November.
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Even by 18h tonight, there were more than 700km of traffic in the region, according to Le Parisien, a record by some distance:
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NEW: An exclusive
@thetimes
/YouGov poll reveals huge opposition to Scottish independence (57% to 43%)
#indyref2
#scottishreferendum
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Grenfell cladding was downgraded by council to keep costs low. Great scoop from
@TimesONeill
and
@AlexiMostrous
#tomorrowspaperstoday
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Heavily armed men now lining up out front out Westminster preparing to go in
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I've been to a lot of cities, but Bangladesh's capital Dhaka is the most unlivable of them all.
The megacity of 20 million regularly has the world air pollution in the world.
Here are my words and photos for
@CityLab
on why that is and what being done:
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My exclusive for
@thetimes
: toxic levels of air pollution breaching EU legal limits are at a record across Britain:
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Paxman to May: With all these U-turns, will the EU negotiators think you're a walkover?
Audience: Burnnnn
#BattleForNumber10
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I made a chat bot about the EU referendum for millennials called WTF is Brexit:
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There are no women of colour in
#Cannes2016
's so-called "global" competitions. It is 86% male and 80% white.
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.
@AP
Despite this the UN is unable to punish those peacekeepers - it must leave that to "the countries that contribute the troops". Unbelievable
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Squeeze change their lyrics to criticise Cameron's "destruction of the welfare state" to his face on live TV
#Marr
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Stunning
@AP
investigation found 2,000 allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation by UN peacekeepers:
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I reported on London's low-traffic neighourboods, or LTNs, a controversial but largely effective policy that is reclaiming the city's residential areas back from cars. Thanks to input from
@jonburkeUK
&
@RachelAldred
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Here's my longish read for
@guardian
on a quietly radical development in democracy in France: the rise of citizens' assemblies. Faced with a collapse of trust in politics, randomly-selected, normal people are being given the chance to help decide policy:
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This year, I became one of the few journalists to ever walk the Darién Gap - a jungle spanning Colombia and Panama home to a huge migration crisis.
I wrote a first-person piece for
@newhumanitarian
, including seeing dead bodies and gangs robbing people.
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Buzzfeed's
@alexGspence
to Theresa May: What would Trump have to do for you to actually criticise him?
🔥🔥🔥
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It's a surprise and huge honour to win the top prize (!!) at the inaugural Solutions Journalism Awards
@soljourno
for a story that
@MelaPerezArias
and I reported about "fog catchers" helping communities fight drought in Lima, Peru
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@joncstone
Have been here the past two months travelling all over and it's been a real eye-opener. So many cities so unliveable.
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The town of Bitche, in northeast France, has had its page shut down by Facebook because of its name. It's appealing the decision:
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NEW: Unbelievable scenes. Final Survation poll before the election shows Labour close the gap to less than 1%
#GE2017
#tomorrowspaperstoday
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I'm not sure why The Telegraph turned comments on for this Cheddar Man story. But the comments are as racist, rancid and full of denial as you'd expect
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The new exhibition about Maps and the 20th century at
@britishlibrary
is 👌. Some beautiful and interesting 🌎🌍🌏
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Here are my words and photos for
@climate
on Bangladesh's floating gardens -- a traditional form of agriculture now being recognised as a climate-resilient, nature-based solution that can keep the country’s increasingly flood-hit farmers afloat
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My interactive project on the rise of rough sleeping on London's night buses
#endoftheline
:
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I've been shortlisted for "best specialist journalist" at this year's Freelance Journalism Awards. Hooray.
Now on to the Freelance Journalism Awards shortlist for 'Best specialist journalist' sponsored by
@RethinkingJ
which is
@charlottevowden
@hansummers
@graceholliday
@ohrhealy
@DrDavidACox
@AnnaTurns
@precadesina
@CharlieMoloney
@nhmcgrath
@ptr_yeung
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Do say: I'm very pleased to be working as an IJP fellow at
@derspiegel
in Hamburg for the next couple of months
Don't say: Ich bin ein Hamburger 🍔
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This is a peak from which the only way is down: I was a jury member at this year’s Concours du Meilleur Croissant de Grand Paris 2021 and I wrote about it for
@NatGeo
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@thetimes
This is an 18 seat drop for the Conservative Party, who were projected an overall majority of two seats last Friday:
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Brilliant front page for The Guardian: Today Britain steps into the unknown
#tomorrowspaperstoday
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To celebrate
@Tate
's Delaunay retrospective, I wrote about couples that changed art history:
http://t.co/KOY1in4M4P
http://t.co/oqrqGIjLKT
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Also by popular demand: a GIF of that man saying "bollocks, that's bollocks" to Theresa May's NHS claims
#BattleForNumber10
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For anyone that cares about our planet, there's a chilling line on the new White House website
#Inauguration
:
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Just before the pandemic, I went to the Democratic Republic of Congo as a
@pulitzercenter
grantee to report on a radical experiment to save the world's second largest rainforest: giving local communities legal ownership of it. My story for
@latimes
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I had the best time visiting the world's largest women-only market in the world for
@cnn
.
At Ima Keithel, in northeast India, there are more than 5,000 female vendors - men can only buy goods, work as porters/guards or provide the women with cups of tea
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My exclusive for
@thetimes
: racist attacks on NHS staff have more than doubled in a year:
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I went to the Metropolitan police's first live deployment of facial recognition technology for
@HUCKmagazine
. Research shows it's 93% inaccurate, more so for people of colour. Scotland voted against it. Even Google supports a ban. But nah, fine here:
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Here's my report for
@VICEWorldNews
on
#Islamogauchisme
, a far-right term that's found its way into the lexicon of the French government. Academics, who have received death threats, say they feel "threatened":
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My story for The Atlantic's
@CityLab
about the deadly impact of Europe and the US dumping millions of tonnes of used electronics in countries like Ghana:
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My report for
@CityLab
: Portugal has just passed a radical new law making housing a social right, in the face of rocketing rents, gentrification and Airbnb:
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I spoke to Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza, the Congolese activist on a mission to make France return artefacts that he says were “stolen” from Africa during colonial times, for
@AJEnglish
:
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According to local officials, the district’s population has fallen from 85,000 less than a decade ago to just 50,000 today as residents have fled. Coastal erosion has eaten away almost 100 feet of shoreline.
Here's a GIF showing satellite imagery for 2014, 2015, 2019 and 2021.
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The Republic of Super Neighbours is a territory in the south of Paris encompassing roughly 50 streets and 15,000 residents. I wrote about their curious efforts to transform city living for
@guardian
:
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My report for
@AJEnglish
on the end of the Ebola epidemic in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a brilliant bit of news:
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Here is my report for
@guardian
from Calais, where evictions of makeshift refugee camps are being carried out every 48 hours. Lawyers say the evictions constitute harassment and are an illegal breach of UN and French human rights law:
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“Extractive journalism” is a huge problem for Western media.
@tinaleeinberlin
says collaborations are “unequal on many levels” for those in the Global South, particularly with fixers and gender dynamics.
“The community must also benefit from the stories being told”
#ijf23
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Here's my longread for
@BBC_Future
on how Liberia is using a groundbreaking, community-led approach to monitor for and respond to emerging diseases before they turn into major outbreaks - or even pandemics. Please read and share widely; this needs support:
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He’s been taking to museums across France, including the Louvre and the Musée du quai Branly, and live-streaming his protests (see video) — essentially picking up an object and parading around with it.
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The Chris (Simpsons artist) take on Theresa May is quite something
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Kensington and Chelsea has the most "vacant dwellings" of any London borough (empty for more than 6 months). It's also the richest borough.
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