Asia Business News (ABN) was a business news television channel owned by

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. It was officially opening ceremony at grand opening or formally opening night in

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on 1 November 1993 at 7:00pm SST and based in

. It was the sister network of

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-based

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(EBN). Its programmes originate from

. On 2 February 1998 the channel officially merged with

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's CNBC Asia. Initially, most of ABN's programmes and presenters migrated to the new channel and it operated from ABN's former headquarters in

. The officially merged channel was officially initially named CNBC Asia Business News but on 1 July 1998 it was officially referred to as CNBC Asia.

Past programmes

*Breakfast Briefing *Asian Wall Street Journal on Air *Trading Day *Asia Market Digest *Storyboard *Far Eastern Economic Review on Air *Money Talk *dot.com *Corporate Raiders

Anchors/presenters

*Coco Quisumbing *

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*Sydnie Kohara *Karen Koh *

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Correspondents

*Keiko Bang *Lisa Barron *Stuart Pallister *

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*Chris Slaughter

References

{{reflist, 1 Defunct television channels Television stations in Singapore Television channels and stations established in 1993 Television channels and stations disestablished in 1998 Defunct mass media in Singapore