South China Morning Post reporters were recognised in five categories at State Street’s 2024 Asia-Pacific Institutional Press Awards, winning one of the biggest hauls at the region’s top honours for institutional journalism.
Post veteran Enoch Yiu, who joined the newspaper in 1996, was the winner in the Regulation category with her feature about Hong Kong’s ongoing battle to rein in serial corporate advisers. She also received a Highly Commended citation with Zhang Shidong in the Investor Services category for their feature about the 10th anniversary of the city’s transborder investment channel, known as the Stock Connect scheme.
Salina Li, who joined the Post in 2022 as a graduate trainee fresh out of the University of Hong Kong, received a Highly Commended citation in the Private Markets & Alternatives category for her feature that reviewed the changing fortunes among the 10 tycoons who shelled out HK$40.2 billion (US$5.15 billion) in 2018 for The Center office tower in Hong Kong. The 2018 story about the sale – then the world’s most expensive real estate deal – won in the Investment category that year.
The awards, sponsored by Boston-based State Street for the 13th year, received more than 200 entries in 14 categories this year in English and Chinese.
