Chau joined China Central Television in 2004 , where he features primarily as a main presenter on the 24-hour CCTV News English-language station . Since April 2010 , he also co-fronts the channel 's flagship '' China 24 '' show . He is one of the first foreign anchors to anchor the evening program for the state broadcaster that , across its various channels combined , draws an audience share of 1.2 billion . His breaking stories include the suicide of former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun , Sichuan earthquake , and the 2009 Indian elections . In the run-up to the Beijing Olympics , he taped a television special on the Great Wall of China with the Australian actress and singer , Olivia Newton-John . During the Games , he anchored the morning show for the official Olympic broadcaster . His two-hour coverage of the live standoff where eight Hong Kong tourists died in the Manila hostage crisis was noted in the '' Guardian '' for the openness of this coverage in the Chinese state media . He continues to report on location for the Asian tsunami in Indonesia , International AIDS Conference in Vienna , and UN General Assembly and Millennium Development Goals Summit in New York
Sichuan earthquake
2008 Sichuan earthquake
James Chau