Isobel Yeung

Background

Isobel Yeung has built a stellar reputation for being a passionate and fearless journalist. She has met with dangerous killers several times and frequently flirts with being jailed in hostile countries. Isobel Yeung was born on November 2, 1986, in Salisbury, England, United Kingdom. Her zodiac sign is Scorpio, and her parents are Joe Yeung and Marguerite Yeung. Her ancestry is partly Chinese and partly English. She grew up in Salisbury and only left when she went to spend a year in China after high school. She financed her year-long trip to China by modeling for brands and editing for publications.

After Yeung’s sojourn in China, she returned to England and attended the University of Nottingham, graduating in 2009. She then returned to China to work as a freelance correspondent for several print publications and Chinese television networks. She joined “VICE News” in 2014. Her new job required her to leave China for the United States. So, she settled in New York, and the career for which she is commonly known today began.

Upon her arrival at “VICE News,” Yeung became a senior on-air correspondent and the producer of their documentaries on H.B.O. In the following years, she began taking daring trips to different countries to tell the stories of people who could not speak for themselves. In 2017, Yeung headed to the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia had annexed. She told the stories of people who lived on the peninsula and how the war had changed their lives. Next, Yeung went to China to investigate the unjust incarceration of Uyghur Muslims in 2019. Her most recent work was going to Afghanistan to investigate how the Taliban treats women to help the women under the Taliban get better living conditions.