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Primrose Riordan

South China Correspondent

Primrose Riordan is based in Hong Kong and writes about the city as well as Macau and South China. Before joining the Financial Times, she was a reporter at The Australian Financial Review, The Australian and The Canberra Times. She was a recipient of the Wallace Brown Young Achiever Award.
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