| CH'NG Poh Tiong
| CH'NG Poh Tiong is a lawyer by training.
He is the publisher of The Wine Review, South-East Asia's oldest wine magazine (since 1991) and the world's first annual Guide to Bordeaux in Chinese (since 2000). Poh Tiong's articles have also appeared in other magazines, including l'Amateur de Bordeaux of France, UK's Harper's and Decanter, for which he also writes a column. He is also the wine columnist of Lianhe Zaobao, Singapore's largest-circulation Chinese daily.
Poh Tiong is the Regional Chairman: Middle East, Far East & Asia, for Decanter magazine's World Wine Awards. Founder of Sommelier Seminars and Sommeliers of Asia, Poh Tiong also organized the first-ever sommelier seminar in China in 2004. He was also Conference Chairman of the inaugural Wine For Asia 2003 exhibition held in Singapore.
In 2002, Poh Tiong was a key-note speaker at the Master of Wine Symposium in Vienna. More recently, he was a speaker at the Twelfth Australian Wine Industry Technical Conference 2004 and has also addressed Wine Australia and the World Inflight Food Service Association's Congress in Osaka. In 2005, he chaired the Forum on Asia in Wine Evolution 2005 in Paris.
Poh Tiong also works as a consultant. His clients include FairPrice & Liberty Supermarkets, Conrad Centennial Singapore and Le Meridien Kuala Lumpur. He is also founder of the Lianhe Zaobao Wine Review Annual Wine Challenge, Singapore's first, independent wine competition (since 1999). Poh Tiong is also Consultant to The Tower Club Wine Awards of Singapore.
Poh Tiong lectures on wine extensively including in India, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan. He also speaks on the subject to private clients, including international law firms, multi-national banks and corporations, France's Sopexa, and the Wine Institute of California.
Poh Tiong was a judge of the 1999 Robert Mondavi Decanter Magazine Wine by the Glass Competition. He has also judged wines in England, South Africa and Japan.
His newest publication, since 2003, is "TABLES", an annual, independent restaurant guide to the "Great & Greatest Tables" of Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and Shanghai.
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