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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.

Photo of workers at Stars Coffee in Moscow, Russia, on August 18, 2022.
LifestylePro-Putin rapper buys Starbucks in Russia and ‘Russifies’ it with a new name: Stars Coffee
By Yvonne LauAugust 19, 2022
People sit along the promenade overlooking the Marina Bay Sands hotel and resort in Singapore in February 2022.
FinanceSingapore could overtake Australia and Hong Kong to become Asia’s millionaire capital in less than a decade
By Yvonne LauAugust 18, 2022
A child on a slide in front of unfinished apartment buildings in Wuhan, China.
Real EstateChina’s bursting housing bubble summed up in a viral video, as official tells citizens to ‘Buy one property, then a second. Bought a second? Buy a third, and fourth’
By Yvonne LauAugust 17, 2022
Photo of Russian president Vladimir Putin during a video meeting with Belarus on July 1, 2022.
Finance47 of the world’s 200 biggest companies still haven’t left Russia. Now the Kremlin is preparing ‘expropriation blackmail,’ an expert says
By Yvonne LauAugust 14, 2022
Pedestrians wearing face masks walk past the New York Stock Exchange in New York on March 18, 2020.
FinanceThe ‘writing is on the wall’ for ‘Chimerica’ on U.S. stock exchanges as $318 billion of Chinese equity flees Wall Street
By Yvonne LauAugust 12, 2022
Photo of people walking by and standing outside the Shanghai Stock Exchange in Shanghai, China, on November 4, 2020.
Why China’s booming IPO market isn’t exactly good news for the country’s economy
By Yvonne LauAugust 10, 2022
Photo of Minions Bob, Otto, Stuart and Dave, at the Los Angeles premiere of "Minions: The Rise of Gru," in Hollywood, California, on June 25, 2022.
LifestyleChina has banned the West’s biggest blockbusters, from Marvel movies to ‘Top Gun.’ Here’s why the new ‘Minions’ movie was approved
By Yvonne LauAugust 9, 2022
Nancy Pelosi standing next to Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen
FinanceNancy Pelosi’s Taiwan trip has intensified the U.S. and China’s chips showdown. Now the world’s chipmakers may be forced to pick a side
By Yvonne LauAugust 7, 2022
Photo of a worker at a semiconductor workshop in Nanchang, China, on January 26, 2022.
Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan was great news for China’s chip sector as investors welcome the prospect of a chip war boom
By Yvonne LauAugust 5, 2022
Photo of Russian President Vladimir Putin holding a candle during Orthodox Easter service on April 23, 2022, in Moscow, Russia.
Finance‘There’s no path out of economic oblivion for Russia’: New report reveals how corporate exodus has already wiped out decades of post–Cold War growth
By Yvonne LauAugust 4, 2022
China’s Gen Z isn’t like the others. Meet the nationalistic generation that’s way richer than its parents
China’s Gen Z isn’t like the others. Meet the nationalistic generation that’s way richer than its parents
By Yvonne LauAugust 3, 2022
Photo of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi landing in Taipei, Taiwan, on August 2, 2022.
PoliticsChip stocks plunge as Nancy Pelosi lands in Taiwan. Here’s why the chip sector in particular could lose big if China follows through on its threat of ‘strong countermeasures’
By Yvonne LauAugust 2, 2022
Photo of Chinese university graduates waving Chinese national flags during Wuhan University's graduation ceremony on June 22, 2022, in Wuhan, Hubei province of China.
China’s Gen Z and millennials have a word for their disaffection with the economy and life in general. Evolution is dead, meet ‘involution’
By Yvonne LauJuly 31, 2022
Martin Shkreli pictured outside of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York on August 4, 2017.
Health‘Pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli is fresh out of prison with a new Web3-crypto ‘drug discovery’ business
By Yvonne LauJuly 29, 2022
Photo of Alibaba founder Jack Ma ringing the bell at the New York Stock Exchange during the company's initial public offering on September 19, 2014, in New York City.
FinanceAlibaba is at the center of a huge Hong Kong-Wall Street realignment
By Yvonne LauJuly 28, 2022
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