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Yvonne Lau
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Yvonne Lau is a former Hong Kong-based writer for Fortune, where she covered Asia's financial markets, with a focus on IPOs, fintech, crypto, and China. Prior to joining Fortune, Yvonne covered commercial re/insurance markets for InsuranceAsia News and worked for Thomson Reuters and The Economist. She speaks English, Russian, Cantonese, and Mandarin. An Alberta native, Yvonne studied political science at the University of Calgary.

A mourner in Hong Kong kneels to lay flowers in memory of Queen Elizabeth II.
EuropeThe Queen’s death sends Hong Kong into widespread mourning for ‘free and civilized’ era despite complicated legacy of British rule
By Yvonne LauSeptember 13, 2022
A child bikes past a poster of former prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa in Tangalle, Sri Lanka, on November 16, 2018.
FinanceChina gave tens of billions in secretive ‘emergency loans’ to vulnerable nations, emerging as world’s major creditor and IMF competitor
By Yvonne LauSeptember 12, 2022
The unconventional timing of Warren Buffett’s BYD stock sale reinforces his famed investment philosophy
InvestingThe unconventional timing of Warren Buffett’s BYD stock sale reinforces his famed investment philosophy
By Nicholas Gordon and Yvonne LauSeptember 10, 2022
Shoppers pass an entrance to the Ploscha Yakuba Kolasa metro station in Minsk, Belarus, on Wednesday, March 16, 2016.
EuropeTo get around Western sanctions, Russian tourists are descending on Belarus to shop at Zara and H&M
By Yvonne LauSeptember 9, 2022
Russian president Vladimir Putin claps onstage at the Far Eastern Economic Forum on September 7, 2022, in Vladivostok, Russia.
Finance‘Let them come to their senses’: Russia will ‘freeze’ European countries that impose a ‘stupid’ oil price cap, Putin warns
By Yvonne LauSeptember 7, 2022
A group of adults and kids pose in Moscow's Red Square for a photo, with one child sporting a t-shirt with the symbol 'Z,' on July 25, 2022.
Politics‘It’s not scary to die for the motherland’: Russian students return to school with new Kremlin-designed classes to instill ‘patriotism’ and ‘love’
By Yvonne LauSeptember 6, 2022
A cyclist bikes past a vehicle and house during a snowstorm in Toronto, Ontario, on January 18, 2022.
FinanceToronto home prices crashed 16% in the past 5 months, and the ‘historic correction’ isn’t close to done yet
By Yvonne LauSeptember 2, 2022
Marriage rates in China have sunk to an all-time low. Will the nation soon face a demographic crisis?
Marriage rates in China have sunk to an all-time low. Will the nation soon face a demographic crisis?
By Yvonne LauSeptember 1, 2022
Boyband BTS performs onstage during the 64th Annual Grammy Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on April 3, 2022.
Arts & EntertainmentSouth Korea could make ‘BTS Army’ literal by forcing the world’s biggest boy band to serve in the military
By Yvonne LauAugust 31, 2022
A cyclist rides past a barricaded housing development in Shanghai, China, on July 12, 2022.
Real EstateThe popping of China’s housing bubble has its biggest developer sounding like Charles Darwin: ‘Only the fittest can survive’
By Yvonne LauAugust 30, 2022
Collage of Putin and Sri Lankan protesters
Energy‘Each passing day life is becoming unbearable’: How Putin’s war in Ukraine is wreaking economic havoc from Pakistan to Sri Lanka and destabilizing governments worldwide
By Yvonne LauAugust 27, 2022
Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei onstage during a session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 21, 2020.
Huawei founder warns of painful global slowdown and tells company to brace for ‘survival’
By Yvonne LauAugust 25, 2022
Photo of job seekers at a finance job fair in Seoul, South Korea, on August 24, 2022.
South Korea risks a major population crash as the country marks its second consecutive year with the world’s lowest fertility rate
By Yvonne LauAugust 24, 2022
Potential homebuyers listen to a seminar on real estate in Haian, Jiangsu, China, on July 8, 2022.
Real EstateChina’s central bank cuts interest rates and sets up $30 billion loan fund for developers to try to tame its bursting housing bubble
By Yvonne LauAugust 22, 2022
‘We realized that there’s no way we can return’: Russia’s best and brightest are leaving the country in record numbers. 6 young Russians explain why they left
Politics‘We realized that there’s no way we can return’: Russia’s best and brightest are leaving the country in record numbers. 6 young Russians explain why they left
By Yvonne LauAugust 20, 2022
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