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Martin Soong (born 1959 in
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) is a
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business presenter based in
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. He is now a co-anchor with Oriel Morrison on CNBC Asia's ''
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''. Before that, he was previously a longtime co-anchor of CNBC's trademark morning program, ''
Asia Squawk Box ''Asia Squawk Box'' is a television business news program on CNBC Asia, aired Monday through Friday from 6:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m. (Hong Kong/Singapore time). This programme is also aired on CNBC World in the United States at the respective ti ...
''. Soong is a fifth generation Hawaiian Chinese; his father, a journalist, founded the ''Asia Magazine'' in the 1950s and his mother was born in China. Soong has 3 brothers and 1 sister. Soong was part of the team that launched Asia Business News in 1993 (prior to the channel's merger with CNBC in 1997). During his distinguished tenure, Martin has anchored almost all of CNBC's flagship business shows, he left CNBC in 2004 to join CNN in their
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office before returning to CNBC the following year (2005). Soong has won many awards, including the Best News and Current Affairs Presenter Award at the
Asian Television Awards The Asian Television Awards (launched in 1996), is an appreciation to recognize and reward programming and production excellence in the Asian television industry. Held every December, the Awards comprises 56 categories across news, documentarie ...
7 times, including 1996, 1998 and 2009, and Silver World Medal for Best News Anchor in the 1997 New York Festivals of International Television Programming and Promotion. He began his full-time journalistic career in 1983 with '' The Business Times'' in Singapore as a reporter, and then he worked for
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as a producer/anchor and ''
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'' as a correspondent. Soong has covered many major stories from across Asia and interviewed many key political leaders and CEOs. After 9 years as co-anchor of ''Asia Squawk Box'', Soong began co-anchoring a then-new program, ''Street Signs'' (based on the CNBC US programme of the same name), along with
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, on 31 March 2014.


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