Mercedes Hutton

Staff editor at @nytimes. Formerly @hkfp, @SCMPNews. Words @guardian and @BBC_Travel. Views my own.

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Could not be more proud of, or more humbled by, team @hkfp. Privileged to be a part of it.

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HKFP is pleased to announce that Mercedes Hutton has been promoted to Editor-in-Chief overseeing our newsroom of six reporters. Tom Grundy takes on the role of Director. Support our on-the-ground team with a one-off or monthly donation: https://t.co/nnntHmNVpt - over 15 ways to support us.

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Why I am giving up writing about Hong Kong politics

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Hong Kong's fifth wave, as the public health system is overwhelmed via @hkfp:

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Why Tiananmen still matters for Hong Kong - https://t.co/LR8gadKKuc

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@QinchenCQ Thank you for your work at Inkstone and for the recs!

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Fast, not furious: I spent time with Hong Kong’s #AE86 owners and drifters https://t.co/SpEYykMjxD via @scmpnews

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@holmeschan_ @ezracheungtoto @karenklcheung @rachel_cheung1 @liuhsiuwen @nicolle_liu @JessiePang0125 @frances_sit @sumlokkei @yuenok I don't know all of you personally, but my home lives in these pages and your words give me hope for its future. (2/2)

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AFTERSHOCK: ESSAYS FROM HONG KONG is important, informed, insightful and, at times, heartbreaking, especially in the context of a post-NSL #HongKong. Read it. (1/2)

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For Hong Kong’s Chinese white dolphins, extinction is the ‘most likely outcome’ if nothing is done to save population https://t.co/235NKx7ifO via @scmpnews

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Turtles take over Koh Samui, but that doesn't mean the pandemic is all good news for nature https://t.co/lR3a9I2NMB via @scmpnews

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Stunning images of old Hong Kong, as seen through the lens of photographer James Chung https://t.co/xrkXoeXqZn via @scmpnews

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The Infinite Heartbreak of Loving Hong Kong via @thenation https://t.co/7Is230OV8o

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How a Hong Kong bookstore owner is creating a new way of consuming the written word https://t.co/efGSPYWoyW

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‘You have to take sides in life,’ says Claudia Mo https://t.co/MvLVRsb5A6 via @scmpnews

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In Shenzhen, ‘urban villages’ like Baishizhou have been lost to the megacity myth https://t.co/210HFUXoGk via @scmpnews

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How Carlos Ghosn escaped Japan: the story of how wealth and connections can literally set you free. You (almost) couldn't make it up ... https://t.co/mtu3NACeVz via @scmpnews

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@once is compiling a digital get well card for her family and others in #Wuhan to let them know they are in people's thoughts. #GoWuhan

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“Other than that, we are all fine. You don’t have to worry.” This has become my mum’s sign-off line at the end of every phone call between us lately.

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Coronavirus Wuhan diary: Living alone in a city gone quiet https://t.co/zFTnwJho5M

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#ChinaCoronaVirus: #Sars spread to 37 countries when Chinese outbound tourism was a mere suggestion of the behemoth it has become. https://t.co/JMMdyCeOJU via @scmpnews

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Jumping #worms, 'the stuff of nightmares'. Great. https://t.co/vl2hwkXhxY