Hong Kong, 12 June 2009: Last night, the Financial Times won six awards at the 2009 Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Awards for Editorial Excellence presentation dinner at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Hong Kong.

The Financial Times received five top prizes, including the Journalist of the Year award won by Mumbai correspondent Joe Leahy. The judges commended his series of articles on India for being able to “help readers understand the conflicts, issues and human protagonists with details and insights that illuminate and linger.”

The Financial times also won first prizes for newspaper design, digital journalism and scoop of the year. FTChinese.com, the newspaper’s Chinese language website, won first prize in the feature writing category for an article on thirty years of reforms in China.

The runner-up prize was in the special section or special issue category for the FT’s China report on the challenges and opportunities facing the world’s new superpower.

The SOPA Awards were established in 1999 to honour high standards of journalism and the best work in Asia and this year, 547 entries competed in 17 categories.

Further information about the awards can be found at: http://www.sopasia.com/

For further information, please contact:

Azmar Sukander, azmar.sukander@ft.com, tel: +852 2905 5519

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About the Financial Times

The Financial Times, one of the world’s leading business news organisations, is recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy. Providing extensive news, comment and analysis, the newspaper is printed at 23 print sites across the globe, has a daily circulation of 410,928 (ABC figures, May, 2009) and a readership of 1.3 million people worldwide. FT.com is the definitive home for business intelligence on the web, providing an essential source of news, comment, data and analysis for the global business community. FT.com attracts 11.4 million unique users, generating 83.2 million page views (ABCe figures, March 2009) and now has over 1.2 million registered users.