Background
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 is a fifth generation Hawaiian Chinese. His father, a journalist, founded the Asia Magazine in the 1950s and his mother was born in China.
He is now a co-anchor of Consumer News and Business Channel Asia"s Street Signs. Before that, he was previously a longtime co-anchor of Consumer News and Business Channel"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 Consumer News and Business Channel in 1997).
During his distinguished tenure, Martin has anchored almost all of Consumer News and Business Channel"s flagship business shows, he left Consumer News and Business Channel in 2004 to join Cable News Network in their Hong Kong office before returning to Consumer News and Business Channel the following year (2005).
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 Chief executive officers.
After 9 years as co-anchor of Asia Squawk Box, Soong began co-anchoring a then-new program, Street Signs (based on the Consumer News and Business Channel United States programme of the same name), along with Oriel Morrison, on 31 March 2014.
