While people stumbled out of the bars in Lan Kwai Fong, Hong Kong's famous drinking district, Leisha Chi 08C was already waking up, groggily taking a taxi into work by 3 a.m. to read up on the day's financial news and write scripts for the anchors.

Looking back two years later, Chi acknowledges the road to becoming a broadcast journalist for the BBC in Singapore has been less than glamorous. But it's also a privilege Chi wouldn't trade. Singapore is the biggest television production hub outside London and Washington D.C., and the BBC helps shape the growing news agenda out of Asia.