Loke Wei Sue

If you pay attention to the newscasters on TV, you'd realise that there is 1 intelligent reporter on CNA. (There are more intelligent newscasters on Channel 8, but that channel too has gone down the 'looker' road, importing sweet-looking Chinese from the land of PRCs.)

Loke Wei Sue's news-reading is convincing because she sounds like she understands what she is reading. She also pronounces Chinese names and terms in Mandarin. E.g. She pronounces Wen Jia Bao as Wen Jia Bao, and not 'When Tchia Pow'.

As such, her performance got me very curious, because CNA has been going for lookers, instead of readers, in the past decade.

I found out that she, a Singaporean, used to read for CCTV.

And the reason why she sounds intelligent is very simply because she is intelligent.
She holds a PhD from Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, and used to be an Assistant Professor in NTU, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

She is, effectively, the most educated newscaster in Mediacorp, and probably the most educated employee in Mediacorp too.
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The worst presenter on CNA now has got to be this sweet young thing called Wei Du. PRC?

Yes! On CNA, not Channel 8.

This chick who struggles with her saliva (swallowing often in between words), a rolling American accent, multiple errors in a single read, and knits her eyebrows as she tries to read off the information on her hands as if she was covering an massacre in Libya, when she only reads financial stuff.

She is so distracting that I dunno what she's reporting about.

Maybe they should get her to read the Chinese news instead.