SCMP wins 5 prizes at State Street’s 2024 Press Awards in one of the event’s biggest hauls

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.

Ao Yulu, a property reporter at the Post since 2022, won in the Investments category along with Chad Bray for their joint feature that explained why the debt crunch at Country Garden Holdings could inflict wider damage on mainland China’s economy than the high-profile default of China Evergrande Group. Ao also received the Highly Commended citation as Best Newcomer for her two-part series on Country Garden’s financial woes.

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.