In 2006 , Lui 's undercover reporting exposed child sex slavery in Indonesia . Later , in a CNN Freedom Project report , he investigated seven-year-olds sold to Ghanaian fishermen as labor slaves . His field reporting explored political and civil rights controversies in the Asian-American community , including the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act , which led to a system of illegal immigrants called paper sons . He reported on the racially motivated killing of Vincent Chin and its association to the Muslim-American community ’s post 9/11 challenges . In addition , he reported extensively from the Gulf on the BP oil spill . He received Peabody and Emmy awards for his team reporting at CNN during Hurricane Katrina and the Gulf Oil Spill
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