Time magazine came away the biggest winner at the Society of
Publishers in Asia (SOPA) awards for editorial excellence.
In a star-studded evening in Hong Kong attended by the who's who of the
Asia-Pacific news industry, Time picked up seven of the 14 awards on
offer.
They included Excellence in Design, Best Front Cover, Best News
Photography, Excellence in writing and Best Interactive Publication.
Action Asia won two awards; it was the publication with the second
biggest number of awards.
It took home the Best Feature Photography and Best Editorial.
Newsweek, Fortune, Finance Asia, Reader's Digest and the International
Herald Tribune each won one award.
It was the second year the SOPA awards have been held to honour
publications that promote freedom of speech with editorial
excellence.
Legislative Councillor Emily Lau said in a keynote speech that too many
of Hong Kong's key decision makers did not acknowledge the fact that
business and politics were intertwined when they should be separate.
This remains the impending threat to Hong Kong's freedom of speech, she
said.
