Martin Soong

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Martin Soong is a CNBC business presenter based in Singapore. He is one of Asia's best-known business television journalists. He is a co-anchor of CNBC's trademark morning program "Asia Squawk Box"

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 in their Hong Kong office before returning to CNBC.

Soong has won many awards, including the Best News and Current Affairs Presenter Award at the Asian Television Awards in 1996 and 1998, 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 as a correspondent. Soong has covered many major stories from across Asia and interviewed many key political leaders and CEOs.