Published writing

VICE.com, —Hong Kong

  • Government Funds Church-Backed Conversion Therapy

  • How Patchy Sex Work Laws Enable Predatory Cops

  • When Hong Kong’s Aging and Disabled Are Left to Die 


  • Metropolis Spending Billions Reclaiming Land from the Sea 


  • Hong Kong Has No Space Left for Its Own Dead

  • City Faces Crisis As Landfills Nearly Full, No Recycling Plant

  • Tracking Down Hong Kong’s Criminal Syndicates 


  • Hustling Haunted Apartments to Millennial Expats


  • Pokémon Go Inspired This App for Hunting Apartments

  • Here's Where America’s New Favorite Sex Toy Is Made

  • Young Sex Workers Are Ditching Their Pimps for iPhones

  • In Hong Kong, Abortion Is Expensive and Dangerous 


  • How to Break Into China's New Music Elite 


  • Hong Kong's Paid Girlfriends Face Violence, Risks

  • Inside the Complicated, Bustling Lady Boy Sex Industry

  • Noise Pollution and Toxic Smog: Why Hong Kong Can’t Sleep 


  • When Failure is Worse than Death for Chinese Youth 


  • Hong Kong’s Lack of Sex Ed is Driving Up STI Rates

  • Prosperity Fading Fast in Hong Kong’s Little India


  • Fish Balls Served with a Side of Anti-China Politics

  • Domestic Workers Share Stories Over Home-Made Dinner

  • Climate of Fear for Few Remaining Refugees

  • Working-Class Chinese Diners Are a Dying Breed

VICE.com, —Manila

  • The Elderly Gay Filipinos Who Perform in Drag to Survive 


  • The Women in Manila Fighting for the Right to Divorce

  • Students Discuss Fears Amid Country’s HIV Epidemic 


  • Volunteers Fight Back HIV Spike, Government Fails to Act

  • Dubious Schools Train Women for Domestic Work Overseas

VICE.com, —Kolkata

  • Transgender Community Searches for Acceptance 


  • Aging Sex Workers Are Facing a Healthcare Crisis

  • Sick Residents Don’t Know What’s Poisoning Them

VICE.com, —Seoul

  • Secret to Curing Hangover Is Blood-Stuffed Soup


  • Inside the Intense Camps Where Children Compete To Become K-Pop Stars

VICE.com, —Beijing

  • Running a Uyghur Restaurant in Beijing Is No Easy Feat

VICE.com, —Denpasar

  • V-Steaming Isn’t What Gwyneth Paltrow Says It Is

VICE Magazine

  • Foreign Domestic Worker Abuse Is Rampant in Hong Kong


Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown

  • Beyond Borders: This is what it’s like to be a refugee in Hong Kong


them. (Condé Nast)

  • South Korea’s First Drag Parade Was a Win for Queer Visibility 


  • How Activists Fought to Keep LGBTQ+ Content on Weibo, China’s Twitter

The Outline

  • North Korean defectors struggle to assimilate in South


NHPR: News from New Hampshire and NPR

  • How to get a deal on Hong Kong's murder apartments


Roads & Kingdoms

  • For Asylum Seekers, No Sanctuary in Hong Kong


  • Hong Kong’s Bizarre Noah’s Ark Theme Park


The Diplomat Magazine

  • Hong Kong’s Mental Health Crisis


Hakai Magazine

  • Revealing Hong Kong's illegal live fish trade


La Croix

  • As President visits, Beijing plays up terror threat in Hong Kong


South China Morning Post

  • Cocaine, gambling and ghosts: Hong Kong’s overloaded social workers

  • Transgender prisoners suffer sexual assault, denial of hormones


CNN.com

  • Great Barrier Reef suffering ‘unprecedented’ damage 


  • Justin Bieber impersonator charged with more than 900 child sex offenses 


  • China considers baby bonus for couples to have second child 


  • What is VX nerve agent, and what could North Korea do with it?

  • Ocean oxygen levels drop 2% in 50 years, Nature study finds 


  • Chinese poultry markets closed to stop spread of avian flu 


  • More than 100 die as avalanches bury villages in Afghanistan, Pakistan 


  • US refuses to condemn Duterte’s war on drugs

  • Philippines: Devotees jostle for 22 hours to touch Black Nazarene


Discovery Magazine

  • Seoul’s Breezy Escape: Discovering Korea’s East Coast 


  • Explore 4 Serene Day Trips from Seoul

Justin has also reported for HK Magazine, the Bangkok Post, the Myanmar Times and the Phnom Penh Post.

Justin Heifetz is a freelance journalist based in France. He has been accredited by the IFJ, the Anglo-American Press Association and the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Hong Kong.

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Justin Heifetz is a freelance journalist based in Marseille. He can speak about French culture, trends and what's happening in France today.

He can also speak on news, trends and society in France for radio and TV.

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