We’re starting to see more Asian news anchors and reporters these days. That’s a good thing of course. I first learned of Sharon Tay when she co-anchored the Los Angeles Morning News on KTLA for quite a few years. Recently she made the move to MSNBC as an entertainment reporter.

From her website bio: Sharon was born in Singapore and raised in Connecticut. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Broadcast Journalism and minor in International Relations from Boston University.

Let’s hear some nominations for other sexy Asian TV reporters! Here are a few more shots of Sharon.

Links for Sharon Tay

Sharon Tay official website
Sharon Tay MSNBC page

Last month I saw a man reading the Financial Times Weekend. On the frontpage was a beautiful Chinese Miss. The title of the article was ‘The china doll revolution’. After I asked him if I could see the article he said I could have the paper. The article was about the first annual Miss Artificial Beauty contest, held in China on december 18, 2004. “The beauty pageant, once the west’s symbol of oppression of women, has become the east’s champion of opportunity”, writes Alexandra Harney. It was a very interesting story (although a bit late?) about the contestants -and their motivations- of this first plastic surgery beauty pageant. I wanted to post about it here, but forgot. Now I have found the article online, so you can read it yourself.

Pictured above is 22-year-old Chinese Feng Qian, the winner of the contest. Reuters quoted her as saying “I couldn’t have done it without my plastic surgeon.”Well, she couldn’t have entered the competition without her plastic surgeon: during the application process all contestants had to submit documents proving that they were indeed ‘artificial beauties’. There also was a transsexual contestant and a 62-year-old Miss. Normally I would say: only in Japan, but I guess the world is changing rapidly…

Other articles about the pageant (with more photo’s) can be found at BBC News and ChinaDaily. Many photo’s of the competiton can be found on this Chinese site (extremely slow!).