Martin Soong (born 1959 in

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

) is a

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business presenter based in

Singapore Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree ...

. He is now a co-anchor with Oriel Morrison on CNBC Asia's '' Street Signs''. Before that, he was previously a longtime co-anchor of CNBC's trademark morning program, '' Asia Squawk Box''.

Early life

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.

Career

Soong was part of the team that launched Asia Business News in 1993, and joined CNBC Asia when it merged with Asian Business News in 1998. During his tenure, Martin has anchored almost all of CNBC's flagship business shows. He left CNBC in 2004 to join

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in their

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, founded in 1996, is an appreciation to recognize and reward programming and production excellence in the Asian television industry. Held every December, it comprises 56 categories across news, documentaries and curre ...

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 Singapore Broadcasting Corporation as a producer/anchor and ''

The Straits Times ''The Straits Times'' (also known informally by its abbreviation ''ST'') is a Singaporean daily English-language newspaper owned by the SPH Media Trust. Established on 15 July 1845, it is the most-widely circulated newspaper in the country and ...

'' 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

Oriel Morrison Oriel may refer to: Places Canada * Oriel, a community in the municipality of Norwich, Ontario, Canada Ireland * Oriel Park, Dundalk, the home ground of Dundalk FC * Oriel House, Ballincollig, County Cork * Kingdom of Oriel (''Airgíalla'' in Ir ...

, on 31 March 2014.

References

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