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CNBC Asia, a Service of NBC Universal and Dow Jones is a business news channel in Asia. It is the Asian service of Consumer News and Business Channel (CNBC). It is broadcast from Singapore and Hong Kong.

Programming

The channel's major business day programmes are:

• CNBC Asia Squawk Box, 6am-9am (Hong Kong/Singapore time) presented by Martin Soong.
• Asia Market Watch, 9am-12 noon, presented by Amanda Drury.
• Asia Market Wrap, 4pm-6pm, presented by Christine Tan
• CNBC Tonight, 6pm-8pm, presented by May Lee and Teymoor Nabili.

CNBC Asia runs a ticker providing information from major Asian stock exchanges, as well as US and Europe recaps, on screen during business day programmes. CNBC Asia's on-air look is similar to CNBC US, using much the same graphics and music package. This is in contrast to CNBC Europe, which designed much of their own on-air look.

From 12 noon to 4pm, CNBC Europe programmes ( Today's Business and Squawk Box Europe) are broadcast. Overnight, CNBC programmes are broadcast.

Other CNBC Asia Pacific services

CNBC Asia Pacific provides the following opt-out services, which broadcast the same programes as CNBC Asia, but provide a local ticker and some opt-out programming

• CNBC Singapore
• CNBC Hong Kong,
• CNBC Australia.

In conjunction with local partners it provides the following local services:

• CNBC-TV18 (formerly CNBC India),
• Nikkei-CNBC (in Japan),

Formally MBN-CNBC was also provided in Korea. However CNBC and MBN agreed to dissolve their partnership in May 2005, and CNBC is now looking for another local partner in Korea.

In July 2005, it was announced that NBC Universal would take full control of CNBC Asia from 31 December 2005, subject to clearance.

External link

• http://www.cnbcasia.com CNBC Asia

• CNBC