Martin Soong (born 1959 in
Hong Kong
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) is a
CNBC
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business presenter based in
Singapore
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. He is now a co-anchor with Oriel Morrison on CNBC Asia's ''
Street Signs
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''. Before that, he was previously a longtime co-anchor of CNBC's trademark morning program, ''
Asia Squawk Box
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''.
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
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in their
Hong Kong
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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
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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
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as a producer/anchor and ''
The Straits Times
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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
Oriel Morrison
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, on 31 March 2014.
References
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1959 births
Living people
CNN people
CNBC people
20th-century American journalists
21st-century American journalists
American journalists of Chinese descent
American journalists of Asian descent
American male journalists
American business and financial journalists
Hawaii people of Chinese descent
Hong Kong people
Singaporean people