Global Affairs Correspondent, News Anchor, Producer and Consultant
Feature Story News is celebrating its 21st birthday in 2013. For more than two decades, the company Simon co-founded in 1992 has supplied award-winning material to many of the world’s leading television networks, radio stations and websites. Today, with news bureaus in Washington DC, New York, Miami, Houston, Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Toronto, [...]
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In July 2012, after a 16-year stint in Washington DC, Singapore’s Ambassador to the United States was packing her bags and preparing to head home. As she prepared to leave Washington, she sat down with Simon for a special edition of “The Interview”, the flagship current affairs program broadcast throughout Asia by Channel NewsAsia……
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Margaret Thatcher’s death on April 8, 2014 led to a vigorous debate in Britain about the substance, style and impact of the former Prime Minister. But while Margaret Thatcher remains a polarizing figure in the UK, in the United States she was lionised…
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Margaret Thatcher's death on April 8, 2014 led to a vigorous debate in Britain about the substance, style and impact of the former Prime Minister. But while Margaret Thatcher remains a polarizing figure in the UK, in the United States she was lionised...
As the rhetoric between North Korea and the United States intensified, on April 2nd 2013 the North Korean government announced plans to restart operations at its Yongbyon nuclear plant.....
On January 9 2013, British businessman Christopher Tappin was sentenced to 33 months in jail by a US court for breaching American sanctions on Iran. After years of denying that he tried to ship specialist missile batteries to Iran, he struck a plea bargain with US prosecutors and acknowledged his guilt. Simon reported the outcome of the case for...
In July 2012, after a 16-year stint in Washington DC, Singapore's Ambassador to the United States was packing her bags and preparing to head home. As she prepared to leave Washington, she sat down with Simon for a special edition of "The Interview", the flagship current affairs program broadcast throughout Asia by Channel NewsAsia......
The drug manufacturer Glaxo SmithKline agreed to pay the US government a staggering $3 billion fine pleading guilty to promoting some of its best-selling drugs for unapproved uses. The story broke on July 3rd 2012, and constituted the biggest settlement ever for health-related fraud.....
In July 2012, after a 16-year stint in Washington DC, Singapore’s Ambassador to the United States was packing her bags and preparing to head home. As she prepared to leave Washington, she sat down with Simon for a special edition of “The Interview”, the flagship current affairs program broadcast throughout Asia by Channel NewsAsia……
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The former Czech President, playwright and poet Vaclav Havel died on December 18, 2011 at the age of 75. He’d been in ill-health for several years. A prominent dissident who at one point spent 5 years in jail for his beliefs, he led the 1989 Velvet Revolution that saw Soviet dominance of Czechoslovakia come to end, [...]
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