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Squawk Box Asia
''Squawk Box Asia'' (formerly ''Asia Squawk Box'') is a television business news program on CNBC Asia, aired Monday through Friday from 7:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. (Hong Kong/Singapore time). This programme is also aires globally - on CNBC World in the United States at the respective time (8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. Sunday through Thursday without daylight saving time, 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. with DST), and on CNBC Europe from 12:00 a.m.-3:00 a.m. Format ''Squawk Box Asia'' covers the opening of the Asian markets and is anchored by Martin Soong in Singapore and Chery Kang in Hong Kong. There is occasionally a guest host who joins in on the second and third hour of the programme. Regular contributors include Emily Tan (Hong Kong), Samantha Vadas (Singapore) and Eunice Yoon (China). Interviews with other analysts and C-level executives are also an essential part of the show. History ''Squawk Box Asia'' debuted as ''Asia Squawk Box'' in February 1998 at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minute
A minute is a unit of time defined as equal to 60 seconds. It is not a unit in the International System of Units (SI), but is accepted for use with SI. The SI symbol for minutes is min (without a dot). The prime symbol is also sometimes used informally to denote minutes. In the UTC time standard, a minute on rare occasions has 61 seconds, a consequence of leap seconds; there is also a provision to insert a negative leap second, which would result in a 59-second minute, but this has never happened in more than 40 years under this system. History Al-Biruni first subdivided the hour sexagesimally into minutes, seconds, thirds and fourths in 1000 CE while discussing Jewish months. Historically, the word "minute" comes from the Latin ''pars minuta prima'', meaning "first small part". This division of the hour can be further refined with a "second small part" (Latin: ''pars minuta secunda''), and this is where the word "second" comes from. For even further refinement, the term ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
