Stanley So ( 1945－) is a

Cantonese Cantonese ( zh, t=廣東話, s=广东话, first=t, cy=Gwóngdūng wá) is a language within the Chinese (Sinitic) branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding are ...

-speaking television journalist in

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. He began his broadcasting career in

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

before moving to

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, and served in various capacities at

Omni Television Omni Television (stylized as OMNI Television) is a Canadian television system and specialty channel owned by Rogers Sports & Media, a subsidiary of Rogers Communications. It currently consists of all six of Canada's conventional multicultural t ...

until his retirement in 2012. After graduating from the

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,Yee Hong Community Wellness Foundation press release
(traditional Chinese) Stanley So joined Hong Kong's

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in 1975 as a

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and

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. He joined

TVB News TVB News (), formally known as the News and Information Division (), is the newsgathering arm of Hong Kong's Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB), responsible for different news programme in TVB Jade, Pearl and Finance & Information Channel, also ...

in 1978 following the demise of Commercial Television, and regularly presented the station's flagship '' News at 6:30''. Stanley was rated as one of the top three most trusted and popular news anchor in the 80s and 90s, even 5 years after his departure from TVB news. So left TVB in 1990 and moved to Toronto. He served as the

news director A news director is an individual at a broadcast station or network or a newspaper who is in charge of the news department. In local news, the news director is typically in charge of the entire news staff, including journalists, news presenters, ph ...

for

Fairchild TV Fairchild TV or FTV is a Canadian Cantonese language exempt specialty channel."Waging a war over a large, wealthy, educated audience ; Fairchild TV and CFMT are battling it out to deliver the news to Canada's Chinese community". ''Toronto Star'' ...

's Toronto division for a few years, before joining CFMT-TV (now Omni) in 1998 as the anchor and senior editor of the station's Cantonese newscast, as well as the station's public affairs officer. He has also presented a number of documentary segments at Omni.2, and hosted the Cantonese version of CBC's '' Canada: A People's History''. Concurrent with Omni's introduction of national newscasts, he became the chief anchor of ''

Omni News Omni News (styled as OMNI News) is the name of local and national newscasts in various languages on the Omni Television system in Canada. National Omni Television produces daily newscasts in Italian, Punjabi, Arabic, Filipino, Cantonese, and Ma ...

: Cantonese National Edition'' in 2011, and served in that position until his final newscast on July 26, 2012. He is involved in volunteer works in the community and is the vice-chair of the board of directors of "Across U-hub", a youth organization serving the Chinese community as well as the other ethnic groups. He is married to Helen Lau with two daughters.

References

External links

OMNI News Ontario - Meet The Cantonese News Team
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