Heather Chen

I'm a journalist from Singapore, covering all 11 countries in Southeast Asia. 

I'm currently working at CNN Digital, based at the network’s Asia-Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong, where I cover breaking news and write features, explainers and analysis pieces. You can view my latest stories for CNN here. 

I began my career as a BBC producer in Singapore in 2014 -- where I pioneered social media reporting and audience engagement and growth strategies before joining Vice as a senior staff reporter where I focused on enterprise pieces. You can find my previous reporting at Vice here. 

I believe that empathy is as central to good reporting as persistence or curiousity and aim to tell emotion-driven stories about people, places, animals ...