Cathy Yap-Yang


Catherine "Cathy" Yap-Yang is a Filipina multi-awarded business journalist who has worked in various news outfits across the Asia-Pacific region over a span of 15 years. She returned to her home country in August 2015 to rejoin ABS-CBN as an anchor for the ABS-CBN News Channel.

Background

She graduated with an AB Communication Arts degree from the De La Salle University in 1991. After graduation, Yap-Yang joined ABS-CBN and tenured for eight years as reporter, researcher and pinch-hitter for the former Philippine Vice-President Noli de Castro on TV Patrol. She succeedingly became a business news presenter for several Sarimanok News Network shows, such as Stock Market Live, The World Tonight, and The Weekend News. She also co-hosted the show, Usapang Business in tandem with Ces Drilon on ABS-CBN.
In 2000, the Reuters Foundation sent Yang to the Oxford University to take a Masters in Journalism and in Cardiff University in United Kingdom. Months later, she joined Bloomberg TV in Tokyo, and then moved afterwards to Hong Kong.
Yang also joined Reuters Television as their news anchor from 2010 to 2013, and CCTV News as their reporter covering the whole Hong Kong from 2013 to August 2015. Yang re-joined ABS-CBN as part of the on-air anchormen of the cable news channel ANC, and beefing up their business news coverage. She is now the host of ANC's Market Edge and anchor of Business Nightly starting September 1.

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