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Peter Yeung

@ptr_yeung

Roving freelance journalist. Special projects, solutions, digital storytelling, data reporting, arts, travel & food. Couteau suisse. [email protected]

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Once again, a painstaking assignment for Lonely Planet in which I ate my bodyweight in croissants and other pastries in Paris rated my favourite/most interesting bakeries lonelyplanet.com/articles/best-…

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My report for Al Jazeera English from Awra Amba, a utopian and pacifist community in the central highlands of Ethiopia. They won awards for their peacemaking and conflict resolution - but they have been caught in the crossfire of Ethiopia's latest civil war. aljazeera.com/features/2025/…

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I've been digging into the EU's policy on Islamophobia - what is actually being done to fight it? - for Hyphen. Rights groups, researchers and even the Commission's lead expert told me of almost zero funding, far-right abuse and political inaction. hyphenonline.com/2025/03/13/eur…

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I wrote about how community seed banks are taking root for Nexus Media News, helping farmers in Central American farmers adapt to climate change and protect heirloom seeds nexusmedianews.com/central-americ…

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I profiled Andrés Torres, the visionary Catalan chef and humanitarian activist, for National Geographic. He spent years living with Indigenous peoples in Latam, drove to Ukraine as the war broke with 500 bags of groceries and now runs a 98% self-sustainable restaurant nationalgeographic.com/travel/article…

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The Amazon's second largest tree is in danger, as illegal gold miners are operating just one kilometer from this 85-meter (279-foot) red angelim. My latest on Mongabay with Alexandre de Santi news.mongabay.com/2025/04/illega…

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Out tomorrow: the first episodes of our six-part The Guardian podcast series about Dom and Bruno and the Amazon. Listen wherever you get your podcasts theguardian.com/technology/aud…

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It’s 37C in Paris. This is the queue to get into a swimming pool. I’ve never seen anything like it. Several police officers have arrived to control the crowd.