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BBC Newsday
''Newsday'', styled also as ''Newsday with Steve Lai'' is a news programme on BBC News that was first broadcast on 13 June 2011. The programme covers international news with a specific focus on Asia and its financial markets and is mainly presented by Steve Lai in Singapore. The programme began as a dual-presented bulletin from Singapore and London. During important news stories, the programme has previously been broadcast from Washington with either Sumi Somaskanda instead of the traditional London broadcast. Such news stories have included the death of Muhammad Ali, Hillary Clinton receiving the Democratic nomination, and Donald Trump getting important votes in his presidential nomination for the Republican Party. The programme is broadcast around the world on BBC News (international TV channel), as well as PBS member stations in America, and is also shown in the UK on the domestic UK feed of BBC News channel. ''Newsday'' is sometimes broadcast on BBC One as part of the cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC World Service
The BBC World Service is a British Public broadcasting, public service broadcaster owned and operated by the BBC. It is the world's largest external broadcaster in terms of reception area, language selection and audience reach. It broadcasts radio news, speech and discussions in more than 40 languages to many parts of the world on Analogue signal, analogue and Shortwave listening, digital shortwave platforms, internet streaming, podcasting, Satellite radio, satellite, Digital Audio Broadcasting, DAB, FM broadcasting, FM, Longwave, LW and Medium wave, MW relays. In 2024, the World Service reached an average of 450 million people a week (via TV, radio and online). BBC World Service English maintains eight regional feeds with several programme variations, covering, respectively, East Africa, East and Southern Africa; West Africa, West and Central Africa; Europe and Middle East; the Americas and Caribbean; East Asia; South Asia; Australasia; and the United Kingdom. There a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021. Born into a wealthy family in the New York City borough of Queens, Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in economics. He became the president of his family's real estate business in 1971, renamed it the Trump Organization, and began acquiring and building skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. He launched side ventures, many licensing the Trump name, and filed for six business bankruptcies in the 1990s and 2000s. From 2004 to 2015, he hosted the reality television show ''The Apprentice (American TV series), The Apprentice'', bolstering his fame as a billionaire. Presenting himself as a political outsider, Trump won the 2016 United States presidential e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Parsons
Adam Parsons (born 15 July 1970 in London) is an English television and radio presenter. He is the Europe Correspondent for Sky News. Early life Parsons attended The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in Elstree, and studied Modern History at St Anne's College, Oxford. Parsons started his career at the ''Watford Observer'' newspaper. Before joining the BBC in May 2001, he launched the sports section of the ''Sunday Business'' newspaper, and was the paper's sports editor, becoming the youngest sports editor of a British national newspaper. He was previously motor racing correspondent of ''The Sunday Times'' and has written widely about Formula One. Broadcasting career Parsons was a sports correspondent for BBC News, appearing regularly on BBC One, BBC Radio and BBC News, the BBC's 24-hour rolling news channel. He co-presented '' Your News'', shown on the BBC News Channel at the weekends. His other work for the BBC included a special report for ''Panorama'', the current affairs pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adnan Nawaz
Adnan Nawaz () is a British news anchor who is currently working for the TRT World. Early life Born in Peshawar, Pakistan, Nawaz graduated from the London School of Economics with a BSc (Econ) International Relations, and then completed an MA in Latin American Politics at the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London. Broadcasting career Nawaz began work at the BBC in the early 1990s, as a broadcast assistant in the Latin American section of the BBC World Service. A Sony Award winning producer with BBC Radio, where he spent five years producing live programmes and making documentaries for 5 Live and Radio 4, he moved in 2000 to TV Sports News, presenting the sport on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News. He has reported and presented from the world's biggest sporting events, including the Olympic Games, the FIFA World Cup, UEFA European Championship, ICC Cricket World Cup, Wimbledon and more. From 2009 to 2015, he read the news on the BBC News channel and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Rogers (journalist)
Chris Rogers (born 13 November 1972) is a British broadcast journalist specialising in investigative journalism, and news presenter. He is among the long line up of presenters that began their career presenting BBC Newsround moving on to present and report for Sky News including its BAFTA Award-winning coverage of the 9/11 attacks. He then joined the Channel 4 RI:SE presenting team before heading to ITN's ITV News, and ITV's ''Tonight'' documentary series, where he presented and reported for London Today, London Tonight, ITV Evening News and produced and fronted numerous investigations for the News at Ten and the Tonight programme as ITV's Investigative Correspondent. He left ITN in 2009 to present BBC News. He has also made many investigations as a producer and reporter for the BBC's ''Panorama'' and the BBC's ''Our World'' documentary series. Since 2017, Rogers has been Creative Director and Executive Producer of the television and online content production company Fresh Star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kasia Madera
Katarzyna "Kasia" Madera (born 4 October 1974) is a British journalist and television news presenter. She fronts mainly morning bulletins on BBC One, the BBC News channel, and formerly presented the ''Newsday'' and World News Today.Babita Sharma Biography . Madera is a main presenter on the covering for the channel's chief presenters and alternative weekend afternoons, and the . Early life and education Madera was born at[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babita Sharma
Babita Sharma (born April 1977) is a British television newsreader who worked on the domestic BBC News Channel and BBC World News, presenting the Newsday strand each Monday to Wednesday from London with Rico Hizon in Singapore. Sharma stopped presenting on BBC News during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Early life and education Sharma is of Indian descent and was born in 1977 at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, Berkshire. She has two older sisters. She lived above a number of corner shops around Reading and Caversham owned by her mother Prem and her father Ved. Her parents are from the Punjab in India, her father was born in what is now the Pakistan side of the Punjab. She attended the University of Wales and graduated with a degree in journalism, film and broadcasting. Career After completing her education, Sharma began working with BBC Radio Wales and Thames Valley Television. She moved to Dubai, working on radio for Channel 4 FM and for Ajman TV where she presente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Moore
Ali Moore (born 1964) is an Australian TV journalist and radio broadcaster. Moore currently hosts ''Drive'' on ABC Radio Melbourne. Career Moore began her career in 1987 as a cadet for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), where she was active in a number of programs. In 1996 she moved to the Nine Network, where she was a reporter and eventually presenter of '' Business Sunday''. Shortly after Moore left, ''Business Sunday'' merged into the ''Sunday'' program. She was also a fill-in host for '' Today on Saturday'' and filled in for Tracy Grimshaw from 1999 until 2003 on ''Today''. The morning after the 11 September attacks in New York, Moore co-hosted the program from 6am until 11am bringing in the latest information from the developing story alongside Steve Liebmann. With ''Business Sunday'''s imminent demise in 2006, she opted to leave the network and returned to the ABC. She has previously hosted '' Lateline Business'', and is also a relief presenter on ABC Radio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharanjit Leyl
Sharanjit Leyl (born 1973) is a Singaporean former producer/presenter, for the BBC. She regularly anchored '' Asia Business Report'' and ''Newsday'' on BBC One, the BBC News Channel and BBC World News from the BBC's Singapore studio. She was also a reporter and producer on the shows along with '' World Business Report''. She has filed reports for radio on the BBC World Service business programmes as well as its arts and culture programmes, and written for BBC news online.BBC Biographies: Sharanjit Leyl bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 27 June 2015 Early life and education Leyl was born in Singapore to a family of Indian descent that migrated to Singapore during the 19 ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariko Oi
is a Japanese bilingual journalist based in Singapore, who has worked for the BBC since 2006, when she became the network's first Japanese reporter. She regularly presents ''Newsday'' and ''Business Today'' (formerly '' Asia Business Report'') on BBC News Channel, which is broadcast to more than 400 million households worldwide, business segments on BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service. As of 2021, she is the Asia Business correspondent. Early life and education Oi is from the Setagaya ward of Tokyo. Her father works in transport. She attended the Sacred Heart School in Tokyo and then studied abroad at Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne where she lived with a host family and learned English. Interested in history, she wrote an article in 2013 criticising the Japanese education system for sanitising its imperial history. She began her studies at Keio University before transferring to RMIT University in Australia, graduating with a Bachelor of Communications in Journalism in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Summer Olympics
The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Summer Olympics or the Games of the Olympiad, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inaugural Games took place in 1896 in Athens, then part of the Kingdom of Greece, and the most recent was held in 2024 in Paris, France. This was the first international multi-sport event of its kind, organised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) founded by Pierre de Coubertin. The tradition of awarding medals began in 1904; in each Olympic event, gold medals are awarded for first place, silver medals for second place, and bronze medals for third place. The Winter Olympic Games were created out of the success of the Summer Olympic Games, which are regarded as the largest and most prestigious multi-sport international event in the world. The Summer Olympics have increased in scope from a 42-event competition programme in 1896 with fewer than 250 male competitors from 14 nations, to 339 events in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Typhoon Haiyan
Typhoon Haiyan, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Yolanda, was an extremely powerful and catastrophic tropical cyclone that is among List of the most intense tropical cyclones, the most powerful tropical cyclones ever recorded. Upon making landfall, Haiyan devastated portions of Southeast Asia, particularly the Philippines during early November 2013. It is one of Typhoons in the Philippines, the deadliest typhoons on record in the Philippines, killing at least 6,300 people in the region of Visayas alone. In terms of JTWC-estimated 1-minute sustained winds, Haiyan is tied with Typhoon Meranti, Meranti in 2016 Pacific typhoon season, 2016 for being the second strongest landfall (meteorology), landfalling tropical cyclone on record, only behind Typhoon Goni, Goni of 2020 Pacific typhoon season, 2020. It was also the most intense tropical cyclone Tropical cyclones in 2013, worldwide in 2013. The 30th named storm, thirteenth typhoon, and fifth super typhoon of the 2013 Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
