Clara Chou

Chou Yuh-kow (; born 9 September 1953), also known by her English name Clara Chou, is a Taiwanese journalist and media personality.

Early life and education Chou was born and raised in Keelung, Taiwan. Her father was a schoolteacher. She graduated from Keelung Girl's Senior High School. In 2012, she earned a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) from the Guanghua School of Management of Peking University.

Career From 2012 until 2021, she anchored Chou Chou Breakfast from 7:00 to 9:00 every weekday on Hit FM.

In 2014, Chou accused President Ma Ying-jeou of accepting donations from the Ting Hsin International Group. At the time, the company was investigated as part of the 2014 Taiwan food scandal. Chou believed Ma had a hand in covering up Ting Hsin's role in the incident. In December, Ma filed two lawsuits against Chou for the comments she made. She countered with a lawsuit against the Kuomintang, targeting acting party chairperson Wu Den-yih. Chou was stripped of her KMT membership later that month, days after she had presented evidence of the party's alleged misdeeds. In December 2015, the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office indicted Chou on charges of defamation in connection to her comments about Ting Hsin. The first ruling in Ma's court case against Chou was handed down later that month. The Taipei District Court found her not guilty of defamation. Ma appealed the verdict to the Taiwan High Court.

Chou made further accusations of the KMT in June 2015, this time against then-unconfirmed presidential candidate Hung Hsiu-chu, claiming that Hung's master's degree from Northeast Missouri State University was falsified. Hung sued Chou and the Next Magazine employees who first published the accusations. Chou further stated in August that Hung was thinking of ending her presidential run early in return for a legislative position or money. In response, Hung charged Chou with defamation again. That same month, Terry Gou was awarded NT$2 million in his defamation suit against Chou, who had accused Gou of violating the Political Donations Act in January.

Political career Chou supported the Kuomintang, before the party lost power in the 2000 election. After the loss, she publicly supported the Democratic Progressive Party's policies, and ran as a candidate for the Pan-Green Taiwan Solidarity Union in the 2006 Taipei City municipal election. though her name still appeared on the ballot as the TSU candidate. The expulsion was later reduced to a suspension. By 2008, Chou had rejoined the KMT.

Personal life In 1998, Chou claimed that she and Daniel Huang had an affair. She married Lee Hyun-Reng in 2001.