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Hong Kong-based journalist 1973-80 (living on Chreung Chau); BBC World Service Radio 1980-2005 (correspondent in Beijing 1987-89 and regular trips to HK throughout my years at BBC, though I was generally based in London); author of "Escape from Hong Kong: Admiral Chan Chak's Christmas Day Dash, 1941", published 2012 by HKUP. Son-in-law of Major Colin McEwan, MBE, founding member of the HK-based wartime commando group, Z Force, and of the British Army Aid Group, for whom he worked in China for the rest of the war after his escape from HK with Admiral Chan and his party.