BEIJING, Dec. 21 (Xinhuanet) -- Yue-Sai Kan's success as one of China's leading business women parallels her career as one of the country's top television journalists.

    "There is no typical day in my life," Yue-Sai Kan mused in her lofty 500-square-meter Shanghai apartment at the end of last week in which she entertained former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham and supermodel Naomi Campbell. In her life, so many things are going on in so many areas.

    She has helped raise funds for ORBIS International, a non-profit sight-saving organization which was launched in the city last month. She is associate producer on the Ivory-Merchant production of "The White Countess," now filming in Shanghai.

    She flied to New York last Wednesday to attend Puff Daddy's birthday party the next day. On her return, she will take part in the Achievement Award for the 2004 Lycra Channel Young In-Style Awards of China on November 26.

    Other plans include inviting Dutch singer Laura Fygi to present another concert in the city, organize a comprehensive 37-piece exhibition of Rodin's works, including his early sculptures, publish a magazine to tell young, aspiring people how to be successful ...

    Kan's "to-do" list goes on and on. But most importantly of all, she wants to pick up where she left off decades ago -- to be a TV host again.

    The new program in the pipeline is "Yue-Sai's World" which goes to air in China next February. This will be a complete reversal of the content of "Looking East," her well-known TV show from 1978.

    The new program will introduce interesting stories from Western cultures, various celebrities and other phenomena to Chinese viewers. Hilary Clinton, Celine Dion and Julio Iglesias are some of the guests who will be on her 45-minute weekly show.

    "I know there are lots of programs around but they don't have depth. This will be a solid lifestyle program. I have a big team in the United States currently producing it," she says with perhaps some arrogance.

    And maybe the Chinese-American woman has a right to be arrogant -- her life and career straddles East and West as a scholar, an author, a journalist, a TV host, a charity worker and an entrepreneur.

    Kan has been credited as being the first TV journalist to link East and West. "Looking East" stayed on the air for 12 years, the last two on the national network of the Discovery channel.