SPH journalists win big in Sias annual awards
Five journalists from Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) were among the winners when the Securities Investors Association of Singapore (Sias) handed out its annual awards last night.
The Business Times senior correspondent Angela Tan scooped the coveted Financial Journalist of the Year prize while her colleague, correspondent Tan Hwee Hwee received a special award for her in-depth coverage of the troubled offshore and marine sector during the recent downturn.
There were honours also for Lianhe Zaobao business correspondent Wong Kang Wei, named Most Promising Journalist of the Year, and special awards for business correspondent Chen Jing and correspondent Tang Ai Wei, also from the Chinese daily.
SPH itself was lauded as runner-up in the Singapore Corporate Governance Award in the Diversity category.
Chief financial officer Chua Hwee Song received the award on behalf of the company at the ceremony held at Mandarin Orchard Singapore.
SPH chief executive Ng Yat Chung said in a statement: "We are proud to be honoured once again for our commitment in upholding good corporate governance, integrity and board diversity. This has helped to sustain investors' confidence in us.
"We would also like to congratulate our award-winning journalists, whose dedication in delivering insightful news is good testimony of our quality journalism."
The event, now in its 19th year, attracted a crowd of around 500 people from business, academia and the investing communities, as well as officials from regulatory bodies and Mr Edwin Tong, Senior Minister of State for Law and Health.
Last night, a range of companies big and small were honoured for their achievements.
Singtel won the Singapore Corporate Governance Award in the big cap category; Vicom was the winner in the mid cap, Sing Investments & Finance in the small cap and CapitaLand Mall Trust in the Reits (real estate investment trusts) & Business Trusts categories.
Sias president and chief executive David Gerald told the ceremony that the association's evolution over the past 19 years has seen its mandate widened.
He noted that the association is now directed not only at helping retail shareholders, but also the entire gamut of stakeholders, including companies, institutional investors and bondholders. - THE STRAITS TIMES
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