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    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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