Singapore – World News’ new Chief Business Correspondent Linda Yueh will make her debut on the channel on May 13 with live reports from Hong Kong throughout the day, starting at 0800 Hong Kong. Linda’s reports will also be available online and on radio. Following a week in Beijing, Yueh will report on 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 will 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.

Yueh’s guests will include Justin Yifu Lin, former Chief Economist of the World Bank, and billionaire businessman Sir David Tang. Based in Singapore, Yueh  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.