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

CNBC Asia was launched on 20 June, 1995 along with sister channel NBC Asia. It was originally based in Hong Kong. Anchors such as Rico Hizon, Bernard Lo, Lorraine Hahn, Dalton Tanonaka and Bill Hartley were part of the original CNBC Asia team. It adopted similar programmes from its US counterpart like The Money Wheel and Business Tonight and had a few of its own programmes as well. In addition, the channel has broadcasted programmes from CNBC US and CNBC Europe on a live and repeat basis.

On July 1, 1997, Dow Jones & Company and NBC announced the merger of their international business news channels. This resulted in a merger of CNBC Asia with Dow Jones' Asia Business News (ABN), and likewise of CNBC Europe with European Business News. The merged channel launched on January 1, 2000 and was named CNBC Asia Business News but it was simply referred to as CNBC Asia in mid-1998. As a result of the merger, there were massive employee lay-offs and programme cancellations at CNBC's Asia original headquarters in Hong Kong but Rico Hizon, Geoff Cutmore and Bernard Lo joined the newly-merged channel whose operations have been based in Singapore ever since. Programmes and personalities came mostly from ABN and were for the most part retained in their original form (i.e., title and graphics scheme). CNBC Asia also mainly used ABN's own graphics scheme rather than adopt those in use by CNBC US and CNBC Europe. In addition, there was no regional ticker for most audiences until October 26, 1998 and simulcasts of US and European programmes were very limited.

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CNBC (officially the Consumer News and Business Channel until 1991) is a satellite and cable television business news channel in the U.S., owned and operated by NBCUniversal. The network and its international spinoffs cover business headlines and provide live coverage of financial markets. The combined reach of CNBC and its siblings is 390 million viewers around the world. In 2007, the network was ranked as the 19th most valuable cable channel in the U.S., worth roughly $4 billion. It is headquartered in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.

The CNBC channel had its beginnings around 1980 as the Satellite Program Network (SPN), showing a low-budget mix of old movies, instructional and entertainment programs. The channel later changed its name to Tempo Television. After initially signing a letter of intent to acquire Tempo,NBC eventually opted for a deal to lease the channel's transponder in June 1988. On this platform, and under the guidance of Tom Rogers, the channel was relaunched on April 17, 1989 as the Consumer News and Business Channel. NBC and Cablevision initially operated CNBC as a 50-50 joint venture, choosing to headquarter the channel in Fort Lee, New Jersey.

Andy Ong Siew Kwee (6 August 1970) is a Singaporean entrepreneur, author, and property investor. He was a self-made millionaire by the age of 26 making him one of the youngest self-made millionaires in Singapore. Andy Ong oversees businesses in education, training, print media & property investments which post an annual turnover of S$100 million. Andy Ong's CEO Message on the values, vision & progress for ERC & ERCI.

Ong is currently the CEO of the ERC group of companies & its Subsidiaries include Entrepreneur's Resource Centre & ERC Institute. The ERC Group recently made headlines by acquiring real estate now worth over $300 million in Singapore. He was the founder of the Asia Financial Planning Journal. He is currently invested in 15 entrepreneurial start ups, sits on the board of 20 private & public listed companies including Sakae Holdings. He is chairman of Stock Exchange of Thailand listed Shun Thai Corporation. He is also a Certified Financial Planner, the founding president of the Financial Planning Association of Singapore, a member of the Financial Planning Association (America) & the Education and Public Awareness committees of the International CFP Council. ERC now has a presence in various countries such as Singapore, Thailand, China and an ERC Institute campus in Vietnam.

Tomy Winata (pronounced [ˈtomi wiˈnata]; born Oei Suat Hong on 23 July 1958; sometimes written Tommy Winata) is an Indonesian businessman who works primarily in the fields of banking and real estate. He was born the son of a spare parts trader and dropped out of school in the seventh grade to sell home-made ice pops to support his family. According to The Washington Post, he then "rose from a car washer and office boy to become one of the nation's richest men". In 2006, he was listed as #35 on a Forbes list of "the 40 richest men in Indonesia", with an estimated worth of $110 million USD.

Winata owns numerous businesses under the banner Artha Graha Group. One of them, the consortium PT Bangungraha Sejahtera Mulia, received support from the governors of Banten and Lampung to be the lead contractor in the construction of the Sunda Strait Bridge and was eventually chosen.

He has looked for business ventures outside of Indonesia, including in Timor L'Este.

In addition to his other businesses, Winata runs a "tiger rescue center" in Tambling Nature Wildlife Conservation Park, in which he attempts to reintroduce "conflict tigers"—tigers that have attacked or killed humans—into the wild.

Thomas James MBE (born 11 March 1984 in Cardiff) is a Welsh rower, Olympic Champion, and victorious Cambridge Blue.

James was educated at The King's School, Chester, where he took up the sport of rowing. He went up to Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 2002, obtaining his undergraduate degree in engineering in 2007.

Whilst at Cambridge University, James was a member of Cambridge University Boat Club (CUBC) and took part in The Boat Race four times in five years between 2003 and 2007 (taking a year off to train for the 2004 Summer Olympics). He was elected president of CUBC for the 2006–07 academic year.

James' time at Cambridge coincided with the most exciting Boat Race in recent memory, as Oxford won the 4¹⁄₄ mile race by just a foot in 2003. To add to the tension, for the first time in history two sets of brothers competed against each other. David Livingston (Oxford) raced against his older brother James Livingston, and a last minute call up for Ben Smith (who joined the Cambridge Blue Boat from Goldie hours before the race after the original crew member was injured) meant that he competed against his brother Matthew, the Oxford president.