Sub-committee Members of SOPA Awards
Ho Kay Tat
Ho Kay Tat, has been in journalism for 23 years. He spent
6 years with the New Straits Times group, Malaysia's biggest newspaper
company. In the NST, he reported extensively on Malaysian politics.
In 1990, he joined the Kuala Lumpur Bureau of Reuters just as Malaysia's
economic boom was starting to take place and covered mainly economic,
corporate and money market news. He left Reuters to be the KL correspondent
for the Singapore Business Times in 1994 where apart from reporting,
he had a weekly column on Malaysia called "Market Matters".
From Singapore BT, he joined The Edge, a business and
investment weekly in Malaysia, first as Editor in August, 1996 and
now as its Group Editor-in-Chief for Nexnews Bhd which publishes
The Edge and The Sun. He assumed the role of Editor for Asia Inc,
a regional business publication from 2003 until May 2005. In early
May 2005, Ho was appointed as the Group Managing Director. He also
sits on the Board of Nexnews Bhd as its Executive Director.
Ho majored in political science while studying at the
Science University in Penang, Malaysia. He also took a minor programme
in mass communications.
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