Veteran RTHK Broadcaster Harvey Stockwin Dies

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2021-11-10 HKT 11:15

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  • Harvey Stockwin reported on and analysed Asian developments from 1955, including an 18-year stint on RTHK's 'Reflections From Asia'. File photo: RTHK

    Harvey Stockwin reported on and analysed Asian developments from 1955, including an 18-year stint on RTHK's 'Reflections From Asia'. File photo: RTHK

Long-time Hong Kong-based correspondent Harvey Stockwin has died, aged 88, after a long battle with cancer, according to his wife.

He reported on and analysed Asian developments from 1955, including for 18 years on RTHK's award-winning weekly radio programme “Reflections From Asia.”

Stockwin was also a regular contributor to regional publications, including the Japan Times and the South China Morning Post, and was the East Asia correspondent of The Times Of India.

He had been living with cancer since 2015, when he left Hong Kong to retire in the Philippines.

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