UK fans of BBC News The Channel will soon be spending their night times with Steve Lai, new chief presenter based in Singapore.
Steve is grew up as 'lampong kid' at the old flats in Ong Sum Ping, Brunei, and then in a brick built stilt house in Manggis Satu. His first job was as a bellboy at The Brunei Hotel. He played rugby union for the Bandar Blacks, and was Brunei's first national captain in 2006 and 2007.
A career in business management seemed the track, after a University of Gloucestershire BA in Business and Marketing Management. He joined the Brunei Economic Development Board. But in 2009 he got his first opportunity to step in front of a camera, as a part-time presenter for News at Ten and World News on Radio Television Brunei.
Then he followed his lawyer wife to her next job in Singapore, and won an online competition to become a sports pundit on ESPN. He eventually joined Channel News Asia in 2012, where he's been til BBC News came calling. He likes Spartan races, mountain biking and scuba diving.
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