Linda Yueh to make on-air debut on BBC World News today

Submitted by ITV Production on May 13
indiantelevision.com Team

MUMBAI: BBC World News? new chief business correspondent Linda Yueh is making her debut on the channel today 13 May with live reports from Hong Kong throughout the day. Her reports will also be available online and on radio.

Following a week in Beijing, she will tell us what other China experts are saying about the challenges the country?s new leadership face and how they have to go about tackling them. She?ll also be exploring how China is making the shift from factories to shops, and what lessons we can learn from Hong Kong, long considered China?s ?laboratory? when it comes to economic policy.

Her guests will include former chief economist of the World Bank Justin Yifu Lin and billionaire businessman Sir David Tang. Yueh said, "I am excited to unlock what lies behind China?s extraordinary development and to show how the world of business is changing, especially with the dynamic rise of Asia."

Based in Singapore, she will report across BBC World News, BBC.com and World Service radio. She will also report for the BBC?s domestic services in the UK. She was most recently the London-based economics editor for Bloomberg Television.