Asian Australian Male News Anchor

Holy crap, how random is this.  I was watching Fear of a Brown Planet's "Happy Invasion Day" video when I noticed a clip of an AA male news reader, uh reading something (forgot, something to do with either cronulla or indian bashings).  Anyway I picked up his accent straight away.  He was reporting for "Asia Brief" and a bit of further searching revealed the online news site and that he's still a newsreader there.

His name is Kean Wong and he's a news anchor for NTDTV (New Tang Dynasty TV) - to view one of his clips, click on item that has Kean Wong as the anchor in it's description.  I'm pretty sure there are AA reporters on there and at least one kiwi asian too.  He's also got his own show called The New Millionaire.  He's from Melbourne but is currently based in New York.  I think he's also into falun, and NTDTV is also pro-falun, but we won't go there...hehehe

I don't know about the reach of NTDTV (although a quick read of their wiki reveals that its popular in America, Europe and even Australia) but this is definitely a (good) surprise.  Maybe the Asian Americans have tried to branch out and instead of just waiting for networks (CNN, ABC etc) to employ them, they've started making their own programs.

It's a general rule on American television for every channel to have one Asian FEMALE news anchor (paired with a white douche), under the guise of diversity.  That rule is bound to creep into Australian television (it has already if we're talking about South Asian female news anchors - search for Karina Carvalho (hot btw)).  Watch this space.

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