Humphrey Hawksley has reported on key trends, events and conflicts from all over the world.
Journalism
Humphrey Hawksley's work as a BBC foreign correspondent has taken him to crises on every continent. He was expelled from Sri Lanka, opened the BBC’s television bureau in China, arrested in Serbia and initiated a global campaign against enslaved children in the chocolate industry. The campaign continues today.
Read Humphrey's recent reports and dispatches from the famous BBC program From Our Own Correspondent.
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Indo-Pacific will be no pushover for China
Pity China and how swiftly the glittering beacon of its world vision has dimmed! Barely a year ago, the Beijing bankrolled Belt and Road Initiative to modernise the world with new infrastructure was capturing a global imagination. Every country, however weak and corrupt, could dream of its own … Read More
Asian Values
A quarter of a century ago, an 18-year-old American student living in Singapore was sentenced to six strokes of the cane for writing graffiti on cars and stealing road signs. The United States protested the sentence's severity, arguing Michael Fay’s punishment was too harsh for a teenage prank with … Read More
