Xiao Mi TanChi-yuk CHOI

Xiao-Mi TAN & Chi-yuk CHOI

 
Title of the article
Deadly Harvest
Name of media
South China Morning Post
Country
China

Xiao-Mi TAN & Chi-yuk CHOI were awarded the 1st Prize for Asia and the Pacific for their article « Deadly Harvest » published in China Morning Post in China.

Xiao-Mi TAN is a reporter based in China writing breaking news and feature stories.
From 2004 to 2007, she worked for the Shenzhen Press Group. Since 2008, she is working for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. She has won 4 prizes from both Hong Kong and Mainland China.

Chi-yuk CHOI has been a reporter covering China news with four different Hong Kong-based newspapers since September 1996: The Express, Singtao Daily, The Sun, Apple Daily. Since 2007, he works for the South China Morning Post.

"Deadly Harvest" is a rare and informative investigation report about China's “black corpses” market during the burial ban, which forced people to take their dead relatives to the crematorium. More than 400 villagers were killed and sold to those willing to pay to substitute their relatives' bodies at the crematorium with another in order to be able to bury their relatives following the ritual they wanted. Authorities started to crack down on similar corpse markets and rescued abducted victims after the report.

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