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Chieu Luu

Chieu Luu

Hong Kong
Director of Video
Chieu Luu leads SCMP’s award-winning video team, overseeing news, features, and podcasts. Named 2024 Video Executive of the Year by Digiday, he is a veteran journalist with a distinguished career including roles at CNN, CGTN, Al Jazeera, and the CBC.
Chieu Luu leads SCMP’s award-winning video team, overseeing news, features, and podcasts. Named 2024 Video Executive of the Year by Digiday, he is a veteran journalist with a distinguished career including roles at CNN, CGTN, Al Jazeera, and the CBC.
Areas of Expertise:
Video production
Languages Spoken:
Cantonese, English, Mandarin

Video | Villagers rescued from flooded Laos cave

This screengrab made from handout video footage taken on May 29, 2026, and provided by Metta Tham Rescue Kalasin, shows a rescue team freeing one of seven men (L) trapped inside a semi-submerged cave in central Xaysomboun province, northeast of the capital Vientiane. A rescue team freed on May 29 one of seven men trapped inside a semi-submerged cave in Laos for more than a week, the group working at the site said. (Photo by Handout / Metta Tham Rescue Kalasin / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO/ HO/ Metta Tham Rescue Kalasin - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS - NO ARCHIVE
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The men emerged weak and dazed to an outpouring of emotion from rescuers and relatives.

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