Teresa Tang joined CNA in 2016 and co-hosts the network’s flagship morning programme, Asia First, tracking live events as they unfold for audiences across the region with correspondents and experts. She also regularly fronts the afternoon Asia Now bulletin. Teresa currently hosts the CNA Correspondent podcast, which takes listeners behind the scenes with CNA’s correspondents, covering everything from breaking news to up-and-coming trends. Some episodes from the past year include India’s monster-sized wedding market, dying single in Korea and the human hair industry in China. Previously, Teresa presented CNA’s former breakfast show, First Look Asia.
Teresa brings more than 15 years of experience to her role, having worked in newsrooms in Beijing and Vancouver, Canada prior to Singapore. In Vancouver, she presented news both locally and nationally for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). She also filed live, daily reports for a national, prime time programme, often covering stories from the Asia-Pacific region for Western audiences. Before that, Teresa worked in Beijing as a reporter for China Central Television (CCTV) and Blue Ocean Network. The array of news Teresa covered includes the handover of power to Xi Jinping in 2012 and the Vancouver Winter Olympics in 2010.
During her time at CNA, Teresa has co-anchored several live news events including the start of the Myanmar coup in 2021 and the historic summit between President Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un in 2018. She also provided live, rolling coverage of the Ecosperity 2023 event in Singapore. Teresa has interviewed many notable figures including former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, Australian Deputy PM Richard Marles and UN Special Rapporteur for Myanmar Tom Andrews. Cultural figures and celebrities she has interviewed include singer Charlie Puth, entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk, and fashion designer Jason Wu. Teresa earned a master’s degree in Global Politics from the London School of Economics and a First Class Honours degree from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. She also studied journalism at the British Columbia Institute of Technology in Vancouver. Teresa speaks Mandarin and the Fuzhou dialect.
