Isobel Yeung

In 2022, Yeung reported on the state of law and justice in Afghanistan following the 2021 Taliban takeover. Yeung also covered the situation of women's rights under the governance of the Taliban and the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the country stemming from a shortage of food and medical supplies as well as a collapsed economy.[11]

In 2019, Yeung went undercover in Xinjiang, China, to investigate the internment camps for Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in the Muslim-majority region, reporting on their mass detention, familial separation, and surveillance at the hands of Chinese authorities. Numerous times during her reporting, Yeung was followed, accosted, and had her camera footage deleted by Chinese police and security forces.[12]

In early 2017, Yeung travelled to Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula, forcibly annexed in 2014 by the Russian Federation, to report how the annexation had changed life on the peninsula. Yeung dined at the invitation of Russian oligarch and ex-KGB officer Alexander Lebedev in Sevastopol where he explained his vision for the restoration of the once famous USSR tourist destination. Yeung also interviewed Oleg Zubkov, owner of the Taigan Zoo and Safari Park in Crimea, about the sharp decline in tourism since the annexation and the Ukrainian damming of the North Crimean Canal. Yeung attended a 2018 Ukrainian presidential ceremony featuring President Petro Poroshenko that marked the Ukrainian Orthodox Church's split from the Russian Orthodox Church for the first time in 300 years. During her visit, she interviewed Ukrainian Crimeans who reported nine months of detention and torture by FSB officers for resisting the Russian occupation, the information blackout on the peninsula by Russian authorities, and the opening of the Kerch Strait Bridge.[13]

During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Yeung travelled to the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv, between the strategic coastal cities of Kherson and Odesa during the Battle of Mykolaiv. While touring the damaged city with Mayor Oleksandr Syenkevych, Yeung met with family of soldiers and civilians killed in Russian bombings of the city and filmed remnants of apparent cluster munitions. In meeting with 25 year-old Mykolaiv resident Olya, Yeung interviews both Olya and her aunt Svetlana who resides in Russia about the ongoing war. While speaking with Yeung, Svetlana describes the war's filtered coverage in Russia and how Ukrainians aren't seeing how "the Nazis torture people [in Ukraine]" and how "the Russian forces are liberating Ukraine from Nazis." Yeung also toured the trenches of the Ukrainian 79th Brigade to the east of the city, attended the funeral of a deceased Ukrainian soldier, and spoke to refugees fleeing the conflict.[14]

In late April and early May 2023, Yeung travelled to Moscow to interview Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for unlawful deportation of children from Ukraine to Russia during Russia's invasion of Ukraine. In the interview, Lvova-Belova refuted claims that Russia forcibly deported Ukrainian children and subjected them to propaganda, saying that the children involved and their parents were Russian-speaking and wanted to be part of Russia. She also said that what Russia had done was purely out of compassion for the children and no politics or propaganda was involved, with the Ukrainian children brought into Russia reciprocating with gratitude for Russian soldiers who brought them to safety.[15] The interview was criticized by Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the head of Office of the President of Ukraine, who described Lvova-Belova's remarks as "cannibalism" and that Russia is a "perfect model of hell".[16]

In 2018, Yeung travelled to Aden, Yemen, to report on the situation of the country's women during the Yemeni Civil War. In her Vice News report "The Women Fighting to Protect Yemen", she interviewed female fighters, child brides, domestic abuse victims, widows of the conflict and female protestors, and chewed khat with government officials from the Yemeni Interior Ministry; their takes on the country's problems related to gender discrimination, gender violence and financial displacement of Yemeni women were covered.[17] She also interviewed former child soldiers of the Houthi movement.[18]