Yvonne Lau

Yvonne Lau is a former Hong Kong-based writer for Coins2Day, where she covered Asia's financial markets, with a focus on IPOs, fintech, crypto, and China. Prior to joining Coins2Day, 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.

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  • A mourner in Hong Kong kneels to lay flowers in memory of Queen Elizabeth II.

    The Queen’s death sends Hong Kong into widespread mourning for ‘free and civilized’ era despite complicated legacy of British rule

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  • A child bikes past a poster of former prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa in Tangalle, Sri Lanka, on November 16, 2018.

    China gave tens of billions in secretive ‘emergency loans’ to vulnerable nations, emerging as world’s major creditor and IMF competitor

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  • Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., center, arrives for a BYD Co. press event in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China, on Monday, Sept. 27, 2010. Chinese automaker BYD Co. will play a leading role in electric-car technology, Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., said at a press event in Shenzhen, China today. Photographer: Nelson Ching/Bloomberg via Getty Images

    The unconventional timing of Warren Buffett’s BYD stock sale reinforces his famed investment philosophy

    By Nicholas Gordon and Yvonne Lau
  • Shoppers pass an entrance to the Ploscha Yakuba Kolasa metro station in Minsk, Belarus, on Wednesday, March 16, 2016.

    To get around Western sanctions, Russian tourists are descending on Belarus to shop at Zara and H&M

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  • 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

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  • 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’

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  • A cyclist bikes past a vehicle and house during a snowstorm in Toronto, Ontario, on January 18, 2022.Finance

    Toronto home prices crashed 16% in the past 5 months, and the ‘historic correction’ isn’t close to done yet

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  • BEIJING, CHINA – JULY 06: Two women stop on their shared bikes in front of a couple who were having their pre-wedding photos taken in front of the Drum Tower in a hutong neighbourhood, on July 6, 2022 in Beijing, China. China’s capital has largely contained recent outbreaks of COVID-19 with few local cases in the last several days, according to officials. In recent weeks, authorities have initiated local mass testing and targeted lockdowns in addition to mandated proof of a negative PCR test within 72 hours to enter most public spaces as well as other restrictions in an effort to maintain the country’s zero COVID strategy.

    Marriage rates in China have sunk to an all-time low. Will the nation soon face a demographic crisis?

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  • Boyband BTS performs onstage during the 64th Annual Grammy Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on April 3, 2022.

    South Korea could make ‘BTS Army’ literal by forcing the world’s biggest boy band to serve in the military

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  • A cyclist rides past a barricaded housing development in Shanghai, China, on July 12, 2022.

    The popping of China’s housing bubble has its biggest developer sounding like Charles Darwin: ‘Only the fittest can survive’

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  • Collage of Putin and Sri Lankan protesters

    ‘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

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  • 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’

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  • 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

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  • Potential homebuyers listen to a seminar on real estate in Haian, Jiangsu, China, on July 8, 2022.

    China’s central bank cuts interest rates and sets up $30 billion loan fund for developers to try to tame its bursting housing bubble

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    ‘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

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