Trinna Leong

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Trinna Leong is a print journalist based in Southeast Asia for the last three years, covering mostly politics and economic news. Her past work includes covering street protests in Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur, reporting on the Myanmar Rohingya community even before the boat crisis happened in May 2015 and the rise of Islamisation in politics and rule of law in Malaysia. She was recently with Reuters and her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal. Trinna holds a Masters degree from Columbia University's journalism school and was formerly a chemist who worked in the advertising industry before entering the news business.

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China’s Small Traders Seek their Fortune in Uganda

It has been barely five months since Mr Qingdong arrived in Uganda’s capital Kampala and already the 46-year-old has set up shop, selling cheap Chinese mobile phones popular with locals. As the bespectacled man from…
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Public Anger Growing Towards Uganda’s Newly Re-Elected President

The east African nation of Uganda, which just held elections last week to elect a new president and Parliament, is at a crossroads. As the country’s illiteracy rate drops and its middle class expands, Ugandans…
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Is the Ugandan Government Breeding A Monster?

Kampala, Uganda – Uganda’s Crime Preventers – bands of volunteers managed by the police with the stated aim of reporting on and preventing crime – have been running into a lot of bad press lately.…
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Election 2016: Young Voices from Uganda

Kampala, Uganda – The landlocked nation of 39 million will head to national elections on Thursday , in which incumbent president Yoweri Museveni will be contesting another five-year term in office, possibly extending his stay…