Hong Kong News Anchor Kelvin Tang Leaps to Death from High Rise Building the Morning Before Christmas
Posted: December 24, 2015 Filed under: Asia, China, Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere | Tags: Asia, Asia Television, Australia, Breaking news, Digital Broadcasting Corporation., elvin Tang, Government of Hong Kong, High Rise, Hong Kong, News Anchor, South China Morning Post, Suicide Leave a comment
The late kelvin tang – photo source: hkVCRBase group @ 24dec 2015
Senior television journalist Kelvin Tang King-fai, once dubbed as Hong Kong’s ‘News Prince’, fell to his death the day before Christmas.
scmp.com reports: Shock among local journalists who knew Kelvin Tang from his heyday as a popular ATV news anchor during the 1990s
Senior television journalist Kelvin Tang King-fai, once dubbed as Hong Kong’s “News Prince”, fell to his death the day before Christmas.
Police said officers received a report at 7.12 am on Thursday that a man had fallen from a residential building on Tai Yue Avenue in Tai Koo Shing, Quarry Bay. The man was unconscious when paramedics arrived and he was brought to Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
It’s not known if he jumped.
He was identified later as Tang, 51, a senior news anchor for Digital Broadcasting Corporation.
Tang graduated from the University of Washington with a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism in the 1980s. He joined KTSF Television in San Francisco in the United States after graduation and returned to Hong Kong in 1992 to join Asia Television.
He was a highly popular anchor for the station and a household name during the 1990s. He left ATV in 2000 and joined TVB before going to DBC
Source: scmp.com
pundit from another planet 