Helen Regan - Senior Producer, CNN Digital Worldwide
Helen Regan
Senior Producer, CNN Digital Worldwide
Helen Regan is a Senior Producer for CNN Digital Worldwide based in Hong Kong.
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The world’s 100 worst polluted cities are in Asia — and 83 of them are in just one country
Apr 26, 2024
All but one of the 100 cities with the world’s worst air pollution last year were in Asia, according to a new report, with the climate crisis playing a pivotal role in bad air quality that is risking the health of billions of people worldwide.
Indian voters battle extreme temperatures as intense heat wave hits region
Apr 26, 2024
Indian voters are battling sweltering conditions to take part in the world’s biggest election as a severe heat wave hits parts of the country and authorities forecast a hotter-than-normal summer for the South Asian nation.
The flight attendant who became CEO hopes more women will make it to the top
Apr 25, 2024
Mitsuko Tottori admits Japan has much more to do to get people like her into the chief executive seat.
Aung San Suu Kyi’s son casts doubt on reports of her move to house arrest from ‘barbaric’ prison
Apr 23, 2024
Reports of deposed former Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s move to house arrest are “questionable,” her son said Tuesday, adding he believed the ruling military junta wants to keep her location secret to deter resistance attacks on the capital as a civil war rages.
In face of Modi juggernaut, India’s opposition appears increasingly weak
Apr 21, 2024
Under the searing New Delhi sun, more than a dozen of India’s top opposition leaders joined hands in a rare show of unity imploring voters to “save democracy.”
India heads to the polls in world’s biggest election
Apr 19, 2024
Polls opened Friday in the first and largest phase of India’s marathon election, in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi is widely expected to secure a third term.
Israel has carried out a strike inside Iran, US official tells CNN, as region braces for further escalation
Apr 19, 2024
Israel has carried out a strike inside Iran, a US official told CNN Friday, a move that threatens to push the region deeper into conflict. The target is not nuclear, the official added.
Sydney mall attacker may have targeted women, police say, as more details emerge of his six victims
Apr 16, 2024
Australian police said Monday that the attacker who fatally stabbed six people at a busy shopping mall in Sydney’s beach suburb of Bondi may have been targeting women, as heartbreaking details emerged of those who lost their lives, plunging a nation into mourning.
Billions spent, jungle-trekking poll workers and voting at 15,000 feet. What to know about the world’s biggest election
Apr 13, 2024
The world’s biggest election kicks into gear next week when the first ballots are cast in India’s mammoth national polls, considered the most consequential in decades with the potential to shape the country’s future.
Middle class wiped out: Half of Myanmar’s people forced into poverty by civil war, UN report finds
Apr 12, 2024
Once considered among the most promising economies in Southeast Asia, Myanmar is now suffering from soaring levels of poverty as a devastating civil war drives tens of millions further into destitution, according to a new United Nations report.
Myanmar military loses control of key town on Thai border, rebels say, in major win for anti-junta resistance
Apr 12, 2024
Myanmar rebels fighting the junta say they have seized the last remaining military base in a key border town, dealing the latest significant blow to the country’s military rulers as they struggle to cling to power.
Dozens rescued after major Taiwan quake but more than 600 still cut off
Apr 8, 2024
Rescue teams Thursday were trying to reach more than 600 people in eastern Taiwan following the strongest earthquake to hit the island in decades, as the number of people injured passed 1,000.
Dozens trapped in tunnels after Taiwan’s strongest quake in 25 years kills at least nine
Apr 4, 2024
Rescuers in Taiwan scrambled to free dozens of people trapped in highway tunnels after the island was struck by its strongest earthquake in 25 years Wednesday, killing at least nine and injuring more than 800 others.
Iran vows revenge as it accuses Israel of deadly airstrike on Syria consulate in deepening Middle East crisis
Apr 2, 2024
Iran has vowed to retaliate after it accused Israel of bombing its embassy complex in Syria on Monday, in a deadly escalation of regional tensions over the war in Gaza that once again appeared to raise the risk of a wider Middle Eastern conflict.
About
Helen Regan is a Senior Producer for CNN Digital Worldwide based in Hong Kong. She is responsible for covering breaking news, human rights and the climate crisis in the Asia-Pacific region.
Since joining CNN in 2018 Regan has covered the Myanmar coup, Thailand’s pro-democracy protests and the Indian election, as well as Hong Kong’s protest movement, the coronavirus pandemic and how the climate crisis is impacting the region.
Prior to CNN, Regan was an editor, writer and video producer for TIME in Hong Kong and before that worked as a video producer for the Democratic Voice of Burma in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Regan studied English at Exeter University and Broadcast Journalism at City University in the UK.
