Post scoops 16 prizes in annual Newspaper Society awards
The South China Morning Post has scooped 16 prizes at the Newspaper Society of Hong Kong awards - a quarter of the total up for grabs - improving on last year's haul.
Reporters Fox Yi Hu and Dan Kadison won the best scoop award for an investigative series on Hongkongers receiving fake degrees from a US diploma mill that sold degrees across the world.
Sarah Monks, Ella Lee, Mary Ann Benitez, Loretta Fong, Kristine Kwok and Fiona Tam won the best science news reporting award with their After Sars series, which asked what lessons had been learned from the outbreak of the deadly virus in 2003.
In the best news reporting category, Ng Tze-wei, Bill Savadove, Choi Chi-yuk, Minnie Chan and Cary Huang were first runners-up for their series on the Sichuan earthquake. Ng Tze-wei was also first runner-up in the category of best young reporter.
Post reporters swept all three prizes in the category of best English news writing, with the top honour going to Josephine Ma for a feature about the riots in Tibet.
A Post reporter, whose identity had to be concealed for safety purposes, was second runner-up in the category with a story on Myanmar's junta. The reporter travelled into the Irrawaddy Delta and found a military more intent on blocking access to reporters and aid workers than helping victims of Cyclone Nargis.
In the category of best English business news writing, Post journalists also scooped all three prizes, with Adam Chen's feature, 'Rural Homes in Limbo as Land-rights Debate Rages', coming top.
Photographer Sam Tsang was first runner-up in the category of news photos, while colleague Felix Wong was second runner-up in the sports news photos section.
Designers Ung Mah Pheng, Alex Price and Terry Pontikos received a merit award in the category of best news page design for their souvenir edition of the Beijing Olympics' closing ceremony.
Post editor C. K. Lau said: 'Our overall good performance is the best indication that we are on top of our competitors in both languages.'
The Post won 13 prizes last year.
