Yau Lop Poon

Who is Yau Lop Poon?

L. P. Yau is a veteran journalist, who worked in Taiwan, the United States and Hong Kong for the last 40 years, and was selected by the netizens in China as one of the Top 100 Public Intellectuals in 2006 and 2008. Yau was awarded the Distinguished Journalist in Hong Kong by the Xinyun Journalism Award in 2010 in Taiwan. And he also got the SOPA's Best News Commentary Award in 2011.

He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Yazhou Zhoukan, headquartered in Hong Kong. It is a newsmagazine founded by Time-Warner in 1987, and later sold to the Mingpao Group, that aims to the Chinese community around the world. He joined the magazine in 1990 as the senior writer and was assigned as Chief Editor since 1993. He led the weekly to build a Greater China audience, calling for a universal style of written Chinese that bridged the language gap between Mainland China, Taiwan, and the Southeast Asia. The weekly received a number of journalism honors, including the SOPA awards.

Between 1995 and 1997, he worked for 15 months as the Editor-in-Chief for the Mingpao Monthly