Martin Soong is a CNBC

CNBC Asia

CNBC Asia is a business news television channel in Asia. A subsidiary of NBC Universal, it is the Asian service of the Consumer News and Business Channel . Its programmes originate from Singapore, Hong Kong and Sydney and has bureaus in Tokyo and Seoul....

 business presenter based in Singapore

Singapore

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. He is a co-anchor of CNBC's trademark morning program "Asia Squawk Box

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. . This programme is also aired on CNBC World in the United States at the respective time Asia Squawk Box is a television business news program on CNBC Asia, aired Monday through...

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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

CNN

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 in their Hong Kong

Hong Kong

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 office before returning to CNBC.

Soong has won many awards, including the Best News and Current Affairs Presenter Award at the Asian Television Awards

Asian Television Awards

The Asian Television Awards is an appreciation to recognize and reward programming and production excellence in the Asian television industry. Held every December, the Awards draws about 1,400 entries each year from a wide range of broadcasters, including free-to-air TV stations and pay-TV...

 5 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

Singapore Broadcasting Corporation

Singapore Broadcasting Corporation was a partially privatised mass market media conglomeration, which dominated the entire television and most of the radio broadcasting industry in Singapore during its existence...

 as a producer/anchor and The Straits Times

The Straits Times

The Straits Times is an English language daily broadsheet newspaper based in Singapore currently owned by Singapore Press Holdings . It is the country's highest-selling paper, with a current daily circulation of nearly 400,000...

as a correspondent. Soong has covered many major stories from across Asia and interviewed many key political leaders and CEOs.