Gerald NG Resume & Portfolio (September 2014)

Gerald Ng Kah Kian
PERSONAL DATA
H/P: +65 93895070
Email Address: geraldngkahkian@gmail.com
Gender: Male

Nationality: Singaporean
Date of Birth: 19
th
Aug 1989
Marital Status: Single
Spoken/Written Language: English, Mandarin

CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS
Nominated for best in-house Public Relations team at PR Awards 2014
Successfully managed to feature organization in BBC, AFP, CNN, Reuters, Channel NewsAsia etc
Chief Editor of Oops! Magazine
Launched social media activities for some of the biggest organizations in Singapore
Secured speaking gig for CEO at many conferences including Bloomberg Sports Business Summit

WORK EXPERIENCE
Camp High Achievers (February 2008- June 2008)
Camp Instructor
Guiding primary and Secondary school students in campsites and leading them through the camp as a
mentor, while educating them on life lessons that cannot be taught in a classroom.

Singapore Sports Council (January 2009 to June 2011)
Freelance Journalist
Cover Sporting events in Singapore for Singapore Sports Council. Articles are posted on the website
www.singaporesports.sg

Timezone Singapore (November 2009- February 2010)
Intern
Designing and printing promotional materials and liaising with external designers for other projects.

Phnom Penh Post (May 2012- January 2013)
Cover sporting events in the region for Cambodias leading English newspaper.

Nutureland and Learners InQ (May 2012- January 2013)
Tutor
English tuition teacher for primary and secondary school students.

InsightMatrix (July 2012- December 2012)
Summary writer
Media monitoring of daily newspapers for articles relevant to various clients.

Ultimate MMA (August 2012- January 2013)
Provide exclusive coverage of Asian MMA news to an MMA magazine. Includes interviews with CEOs
and top athletes.

ONE Fighting Championship (January 2013- Present)
Senior Coordinator, Public Relations & Media

Represent the organization as spokesperson in interview with global media
Obtain speaking engagements for CEO at world-class conferences
Project lead press conferences and other media activities
Craft press releases that are picked up all over the world
Part of 2-man PR team that was nominated for BEST PR CAMPAIGN BY AN IN-HOUSE
COMMUNICATIONS TEAM in PR Awards 2014.

QUALIFICATIONS
January 2002 December 2005:
Evergreen Secondary School
General Certificate of Education O Levels

April 2007 February 2010:
Singapore Polytechnic
Diploma in Media & Communications

August 2012- Present
Murdoch University
Bachelor in Communications (Journalism & Public Relations)

CO-CURRICULAR ACITIVITY
Chief Editor of Oops! Magazine
Oops! is a lifestyle magazine produced by Singapore Polytechnics School of Communication and Social
Sciences. It has a circulation of 15,000 per issue, and is the magazine with the largest circulation rate
among all tertiary education. We also do events for the students of Singapore Polytechnic. We have held
events at Timbre, Zouk and Caf Del Mar.
Positions held: Chief Editor (2007-2010)

SKILLS & OTHER INFORMATION
Proficient in written and spoken English
Experienced and Skilled in editing and writing
Press releases picked up by major media outlets

Jawa Pos (Indonesia)
3 July 2013
https://imageshack.com/a/img401/333
3/a554.jpg

ONE FC Public Relations Coordinator
Gerald Ng believes that Indonesia has
the potential to become the mecca of
mixed martial arts in Asia.

BeritaSatu.com (Indonesia)
19 July 2013
http://www.beritasatu.com/olahraga/1
26809-mma-dorong-perkembangan-
olahraga-beladiri-di-indonesia.html

Last years event was viewed by more
than 8000 people live in attendance
and this years edition is expected to
surpass that with more than 12000
people in attendance.

Tempo.com (Indonesia)
20 February 2014
http://www.tempo.co/read/news/201
4/02/20/103556045/Petarung-MMA-
Indonesia-Dikontrak-One-FC

We have acquired Fransino to an
exclusive long-term contract and his
contract will be for multiple years.

Yahoo! (Singapore)
6 December 2013
https://sg.sports.yahoo.com/news/the-
typhoon-no-more--fund-a-fighter-s-
paul-cheng-promises-aid-for-yolanda-
victim-043235248.html

Best of ONE FC Medi a Coverage 2013
Best of ONE FC Media Coverage 2013 www.ONEFC.com
MMA is becoming very popular in Asia.
- CNN
ONE FC will move to the 55,000
capacity National Stadium in 2014
- The New Paper
The event (ONE FC) has the ability to reach 1 billion
viewers on ESPN Star Sports in Asia and
online streaming at LiveSport TV.
- New York Post
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Sports
mixed martial arts n.b.a.
N.B.A.
BY HOWARD BECK
Jason Collins, a 12-year veteran in the
National Basketball Association, has
come out as the first openly gay male
athlete playing in a major American
teamsport.
Im a 34-year-old N.B.A. center. Im
black and Imgay, Collins writes in the
May 6 edition of Sports Illustrated,
which published the article online Mon-
day morning.
The announcement makes Collins a
pioneer of sorts: the first player in the
N.B.A., the National Football League,
the National Hockey League or Major
League Baseball to come out while still
pursuing his career.
Other gay athletes, including the
former N.B.A. center John Amaechi,
have waited until retirement to divulge
their sexuality publicly.
Collins, who split this season between
the Boston Celtics and the Washington
Wizards, will become a free agent on
July 1. He intends to pursue another
contract in the summer, which may
serve as a test for how N.B.A. teams re-
spond to the announcement.
Inhis essay, Collins alludes to the situ-
ation, writing: Ive reached that envi-
able state in life in which I can do pretty
much what I want. And what I want is to
continue to play basketball. I still love
the game, and I still have something to
offer. My coaches and teammates rec-
ognize that. At the same time, I want to
be genuine and authentic and truthful.
Collinss decision drewpraise and ad-
mirationacross the athletic and political
realmon Twitter.
I am so proud of my bro @jason-
collins34 for being real, Baron Davis, a
former N.B.A. star point guard, wrote
on his account.
Proud of @jasoncollins34, wrote
the Lakers star Kobe Bryant. Dont
suffocate who u r because of the ignor-
ance of others.
Chelsea Clinton, who attended Stan-
ford with Collins, also tweeted her sup-
port, as did Amaechi, who wrote, Con-
gratulations to Jason society couldnt
hope for a more eloquent and positive
role model.
Clintons father, Bill Clinton, the
former president, asked fans and
Collinss colleagues to support and re-
spect him after his announcement, The
Associated Press reported from Wash-
ington on Monday. Bill Clinton said of
Collins that he was a good man.
Meanwhile, the White House com-
mended Collinss move. Spokesman Jay
Carney called that decision courageous
and said the White House supported
Collins, The A.P. reported.
Carney said the White House viewed
the decision as another example of pro-
gress and evolution in the United States
as Americans grew more accepting of
gay rights and same-sex marriage. Last
year, during his re-election campaign,
President Barack Obama announced
his support for gay marriage.
The N.B.A. commissioner, David
Stern, released a statement welcoming
the announcement.
Jason has been a widely respected
player and teammate throughout his ca-
reer, Stern said, and we are proud he
has assumed the leadership mantle on
this very important issue.
All of the major sports leagues have
been preparing, to various degrees, for
the moment when an active player
comes out. The N.F.L., amid speculation
that a handful of players are preparing
to make the move en masse, has been
working with gay advocacy groups to
smooth the way for acceptance. The
N.H.L. also recently announced a com-
prehensive program for training and
counseling on gay issues for its teams
and players.
The N.B.A. has long included educa-
tion in this area in both its rookie and
veteran development programs.
League officials have typically played
down the need to prepare for an active
player coming out, believing that the
moment would be greeted with a collec-
tive shrug, or should be.
As Stern said in a recent New York
Times article, Its our fervent hope
that this draws less attention, not more,
when a player eventually comes out.
Veteran N.B.A. player
breaks barrier that many
anticipated would fall
TAMI CHAPPELL/REUTERS
Jason Collins played for Boston, above
right, and Washington this season.
SINGAPORE
BY CHRISTOPHER CLAREY
It was late on a Friday night in the
Singapore Indoor Stadium. The 12,000
seats were full.
The shouts in English, Mandarin and
Malay were reverberating, and be-
tween sending Twitter messages from
his cage-side chair, Victor Cui kept leap-
ing to his feet in response to the take-
downs, submissions and other codified
mayhemtranspiring at close range.
Cui, a velvet-voiced Canadian of
Filipino and Chinese descent, is the
would-be king of mixed martial arts in
Asia: the founder and chief executive of
One Fighting Championship.
He is also believe it or not the
would-be king of Asian sport.
Ill make a really bold statement,
Cui said. I believe in 10 years, mixed
martial arts will be the most popular
sport in Asia, ahead of soccer, ahead of
everything.
That is bold indeed, considering all
the people in Asia huddled around their
televisions and mobile devices for the
latest from the English Premier
League; bold in light of crickets endur-
ing hold on South Asia; bold when some
Asian nations switch television cover-
age from color to black and white when
blood flows too freely in fights; bold
when M.M.A. remains an unacquired
taste in the two most populous nations
in the world: China and India.
But Cui, no longer a sports marketing
maven in search of a muse, has done his
due diligence, recruited wealthy back-
ers, including the Singapore Economic
Development Board, and uncovered
what he says is the chance of a lifetime.
When I first crunched the numbers,
I thought, I have it wrong; I made a
mistake, Cui said.
Mixed martial arts pits fighters
against each other, and unlike, say, box-
ing, competitors are allowed to use both
their arms and legs to strike. They often
mix different martial arts or fighting
styles, instead of concentrating on just
one.
One F.C., based in Singapore since its
inception in 2011, has quickly grown into
a major regional player withits predom-
inantly Asian roster of fighters and con-
sensual approach.
Japan was the trailblazer in Asian
M.M.A. with Pride Fighting Champion-
ship, which drew huge crowds of about
90,000 for some of its events in Japan in
the 2000s.
Its been done country by country,
Cui said. Pride and Dream in Japan
were huge, but that was really Japanese-
focused. One F.C.s approach is pan-
Asian: what Cui calls a Champions
League approach to M.M.A., referring to
the European soccer competition Last
year, the One F.C. signeda10-year agree-
ment for undisclosedterms withabroad-
caster in Asia, ESPN-Star Sports, now
FoxStar Sports. OnApril 5, withCui hop-
ping in and out of his chair in Singapore,
the network broadcast a One F.C. event
live for the first time, reaching 28 coun-
tries in Asia and about 70 worldwide.
The card was heavy on east-west
duels: like the bantamweight Masa-
katsu Ueda of Japan versus the aging
AmericanJens Pulver. But it ended with
Shinya Aoki manhandling his Japanese
compatriot Kotetsu Boku in the main
event: a lightweight championship
fight.
Cui said the possibility of a live, pan-
Asian broadcast had influenced his de-
cision to shift One F.C. events from Sat-
urday to Friday: a night when, as the
time zones would have it, there is a
dearth of live sports events available in
much of Asia.
No Formula One, no E.P.L., he said,
referring to the English Premier
League, there is occasionally tennis
when you have Australian Open, but
generally Friday is dead, the complete
opposite of North America and most of
the other parts of the world.
In all, Cui said One F.C. has 12 events
scheduled this year in six Asian coun-
tries, and Cui has announced plans to
stage 24 events in 2014. One potential
venue is the soon-to-be-completed
55,000-seat National Stadium in Singa-
pore. Cui also has expressed a longer-
range desire to move into the Middle
East, including Turkey.
OTHER COMPETITORS
One F.C. is unsurprisingly not
alone.
Other M.M.A. promotions are also or-
ganizing events in Asia, including Le-
gend Fighting Championship in Hong
Kong. Then there is the global leader,
Ultimate Fighting Championship, or
U.F.C., the engine of the sports rapidde-
velopment over the past decade with its
deep roster and its seven-year televi-
sion contract with Fox Sports Media
Group worth a reported $700 million.
U.F.C. is based in the United States
but has had an office in Beijing since
2010.
I think the skys the limit for the
U.F.C. in Asia and, by extension, the
sport of mixed martial arts, Mark Fis-
cher, U.F.C.s managing director for
Asia, said by telephone from Beijing.
Its very new here, and in some mar-
kets still quite niche, but the growth so
far has really been outstanding. Since
we set up here about two and a half
years ago, weve seen M.M.A. gyms
popping up everywhere in all the major
cities across Asia. Weve seen a couple
of smaller promotions pop up like One
F.C. and Legend, and our own viewer-
ship has grown exponentially.
And yet U.F.C. action on the ground in
Asia has been nonexistent until re-
cently. It has staged three events in the
region, but two of those were in Japan
and Macau in the last six months. And
U.F.C. has tentative plans to add stops in
Jakarta, Manila, Seoul and Singapore
and perhaps other Asian cities in the
next year.
Before joining U.F.C., Fischer worked
in Asia for 20 years, spending 12 of those
with the National Basketball Associ-
ation, where he was responsible for
growing the N.B.A.s business in the
Asia-Pacific region, with a heavy em-
phasis on China.
Fischer said market surveys showed
that awareness of the U.F.C. among
adults in major Chinese cities had in-
creased to 60 percent from25 percent in
the last three years. He saidthe percent-
age was significantly higher in the
U.F.C.s target demographic of 18- to 35-
year-olds and that the U.F.C.s weekly
television program in China was aver-
aging 20 million viewers.
Believe it or not, that is still some-
what niche for China, Fischer said.
But thats up from almost nothing
when we started. Weve built a large
provincial network of broadcasters in
China that are carrying U.F.C. on a reg-
ular basis.
But Fischer said the timing was still
not right to stage a full-fledged U.F.C.
event in mainland China.
We could go in tomorrow and hold
an event in mainland China, Fischer
said. But we look at it like a rocket ship.
We are building up the compression
phase and looking really for a mass
audience.
Developing Chinese fighters is part of
the compression phase. But for now, the
mass audience is reserved for other
sports in Asia: soccer, Formula One
and, in certain markets, cricket and ten-
nis.
We are at less than one percent mar-
ket penetration of our sport, Cui said.
But the shape of the growth curve has
Cui and others excited, including his
fighters.
One F.C. was live throughout every
country in Asia, and thats within two
years, man, said Eddie Ng, a fighter
who was born and raised in Britain but
represents Hong Kong. The U.F.C.
came about in 1993. One F.C. has been
around less than two years. The growth
that One F.C. is going to experience in 20
years, I cant imagine. It will be crazy.
There are just so many potential fans
here.
TAPPING INTO HISTORY
Though the commentary can veer to-
ward breathless, the arguments in favor
of M.M.A.s continued momentum are
hardly without their charms.
Asia has a rich and ancient history in
martial arts, but the landscape is frag-
mented with different disciplines domi-
nant in different nations.
Asia has been the home of martial
arts for 5,000 years, and there are movie
heroes like Bruce Lee, Jet Li and Jackie
Chan, but theres no real-life hero, said
Chatri Sityodtong, a former hedge fund
manager and Harvard Business School
graduate who recently founded the
Asian martial arts academy Evolve
M.M.A. in Singapore.
No one has tried to commercialize
real-life martial arts, but you have all of
these world champions in all these dif-
ferent disciplines because there are
martial arts in every country, Sityod-
tong said. Japan has karate, aikido,
judo. Korea has taekwondo. Thailand
has muay Thai. The Philippines has
boxing, and you have silat from Malay-
sia and Indonesia. This is homegrown
stuff.
M.M.A. gives these homegrown fig-
ures the chance to play off (and beat up
on) each other and, in theory, reach a
wider Asian audience, even if Sityod-
tong, a former professional muay Thai
fighter, acknowledges that, in practice,
recruiting crossover stars is a chal-
lenge.
Were only in the first inning, so yes,
its hard to recruit a guy who is only do-
ing muay Thai, because hes not ex-
posed to anything else, said Sityod-
tong, whose Evolve fighters, like Aoki,
are some of One F.C.s key figures. But
the media platform of One F.C. is
already much bigger than any media
platform for muay Thai. Muay Thai is
shown in Thailand and only Thailand.
So once a fighter realizes that I can rep-
resent my country and make a lot more
money doing so and bring glory and
honor to my country, it will almost be
like a mini-Olympics.
Asian sport is also short on pan-Asian
superstars, with much of the media fo-
cus on excellence abroad in the form of
the Premier League or the N.B.A.
M.M.A. presents an opportunity
with all the world-class talent already at
work in the martial arts to generate
Asian stars. Sityodtong also says it
presents an opportunity to tap in an ele-
mental way into the regions many tra-
ditional geopolitical rivalries.
Japan vs. China; India vs. Pakistan;
Korea vs. Japan; Malaysia vs. Singa-
pore, Sityodtong said.
Cui said M.M.A. checks off four boxes
vital for success in Asia: the ability to
generate national heroes, the tran-
scendence of language barriers, a com-
pelling television product and cultural
relevance.
Asians see martial arts all the time,
so the cultural gap is really, really small
to make a leap, he said. I love ice
hockey, and I miss it with all my heart. I
brought all my gear here and its all
molded, because I havent been able to
play. For me to teach everybody about
hockey, people have never even seen
ice, let alone follow a puck. But M.M.A.,
O.K., I get it. Im going to put the best
martial artist in taekwondo versus the
best in kung fu.
While U.F.C. officials thinks globally,
Cuis thinking is relentlessly regional,
focused on the approximately two bil-
lion people who live in East and South-
east Asia.
Cui, a black belt in taekwondo, has
started what he calls the One F.C. Net-
work, cooperating with gyms and smal-
ler M.M.A. promotions in countries like
the Philippines and Malaysia so that
One F.C. has access to their fighters for
its events while preserving their nation-
al competitions.
A CROWDED MARKET
The question is how big One F.C. can
grow in the face of rising competition
and with the U.F.C. intent on increasing
its Asian market share but uninterested
for now, with its global commitments, in
staging more than a few events each
year in the region.
Fischer said he did not view One F.C.
as a competitor but as a minor league
helping to growinterest in the sport as a
whole. The talent gap is abundantly
clear even if Aoki and the Brazilian
fighter Bibiano Fernandes have turned
down U.F.C. contracts for lucrative
deals and early access to a new market
with One F.C.
But Cui and his friend Sityodtong,
whose lives have beenall about navigat-
ing between North America and Asia,
are both quick to make the same analo-
gies to other east-west business rival-
ries.
U.F.C. is biggest in the west; One
F.C. biggest in the east, Cui said. Its a
theme that is played out in almost every
major industry. Apple vs. Samsung.
YouTube vs. Youku. Twitter vs. Weibo.
Amazon vs. Alibaba.
Said Sityodtong: I do believe theres
anAsianversionanda Westernversion.
I genuinely believe they can coexist. I
dont see anyreasonwhyyoucant have
a duopoly.
But sport has been more resistant to
such arrangements than other indus-
tries, with the best global talent tending
to flow to one hub, be it the N.B.A., the
National HockeyLeague, theP.G.A. Tour
in golf or European soccer leagues. And
if One F.C. makes Asians into megastars,
who is to say that U.F.C., which now has
precious few Asians under contract, will
not simply lure them the same way Bar-
celona and Real Madrid lure the best
fromBrazil and Argentina?
I find their efforts to be very comple-
mentary to what were doing, Fischer
said of One F.C. The U.F.C. is the
premier promotion and brand in mixed
martial arts and we dont see anyone
threatening that position for years to
come, if ever.
JUSTIN NG/ONE FIGHTING CHAMPIONSHIP
Kevin Belingon, left, battling Thanh Vu during a bantamweight mixed martial arts competition organized by One Fighting Championship in Singapore. One F.C. has signed a 10-year deal with Fox Star Sports to broadcast fights in Asia.
Asians see martial arts all the
time, so the cultural gap is
really, really small.
Its very new here, and in
some markets still quite niche,
but the growth so far has
really been outstanding.
WILLY FOO/ONE FIGHTING CHAMPIONSHIP
Victor Cui, founder of One Fighting Cham-
pionship, says Asian audiences can easily
relate to the concept of mixed martial arts.
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cials said, the cash has fueled corrup-
tion and empowered warlords, under-
mining Washingtons exit strategy from
Afghanistan.
The biggest source of corruption in
Afghanistan, one U.S. official said,
was the United States.
The United States was not alone in de-
livering cash to the president. Mr. Kar-
zai acknowledged a few years ago that
Iran regularly gave bags of cash.
At the time, in 2010, U.S. officials
jumped on the payments as evidence of
an aggressive Iranian campaign to buy
influence andpoisonAfghanistans rela-
tions with the United States. What they
did not say was that the C.I.A. was also
plying the presidential palace with cash
and unlike the Iranians, it still is.
U.S. and Afghan officials familiar with
the payments said the agencys main
goal in providing the cash has been to
maintainaccess to Mr. Karzai andhis in-
ner circle and to guarantee the agencys
influence at the presidential palace,
which wields tremendous power in Af-
ghanistans highly centralized govern-
ment. The officials spoke only on the
condition of anonymity.
It is not clear that the United States is
gettingwhat it pays for. Mr. Karzais will-
ingness to defy the United States and
the Iranians, for that matter on an ar-
ray of issues seems to have only grown
as the cash has piled up. Instead of se-
curing his good graces, the payments
may well illustrate the opposite: Mr.
Karzai is seemingly unable to be bought.
Over Irans objections, he signed a
strategic partnership deal with the
United States last year, directly leading
the Iranians to halt their payments, two
senior Afghan officials said. Now, Mr.
Karzai is seekingcontrol over theAfghan
militias raised by the C.I.A. to target op-
eratives of Al Qaeda and insurgent com-
manders, potentially upending a critical
part of the Obama administrations plans
for fightingmilitants as conventional mil-
itary forces pull back this year.
But with a defiant Karzai
and insurgency, bags of
U.S. cash dont buy much
ARSHAD ARBAB/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
More bloodshed inPakistan Avictimof asuicidebombingbeingbrought toahospital inPeshawar onMonday. Theblast, whichstruckapolicepatrol car, killedat least
9 people and wounded more than 35 in the northwestern city. According to an Afghan diplomat there, the dead included two trade officials fromAfghanistan.
Fighting for a share of Asias sports scene
SINGAPORE
BY CHRISTOPHER CLAREY
It was late onaFridaynight inthe Singa-
pore Indoor Stadium. The 12,000 seats
were full. The shouts in English, Man-
darin and Malay were reverberating,
and between sending Twitter messages
fromhis cage-side chair, Victor Cui kept
leaping to his feet in response to the
takedowns, submissions and other codi-
fied mayhemtranspiring at close range.
Cui, a velvet-voiced Canadian of
Filipino and Chinese descent, is the
would-be king of mixed martial arts in
Asia: the founder and chief executive of
One Fighting Championship.
He is also believe it or not the
would-be king of Asian sport.
Ill make a really bold statement,
Cui said. I believe in 10 years, mixed
martial arts will be the most popular
sport in Asia, ahead of soccer, ahead of
everything.
That is bold indeed, considering all
the people in Asia huddled around their
televisions and mobile devices for the
latest from the English Premier
League; bold in light of crickets endur-
ing hold on South Asia; bold when some
Asian nations switch television cover-
age from color to black and white when
blood flows too freely in fights; bold
when M.M.A. remains an unacquired
taste in the two most populous nations
in the world: China and India.
But Cui, no longer a sports marketing
maven in search of a muse, has done his
due diligence, recruited wealthy back-
ers, including the Singapore Economic
Development Board, and uncovered
what he says is the chance of a lifetime.
When I first crunched the numbers,
I thought, I have it wrong; I made a
I believe in 10 years, mixed
martial arts will be the most
popular sport in Asia.
TODD HEISLER/THE NEW YORK TIMES
The Empire State Building has stood out on the NewYork skyline for more than 80 years.
Areal estate battle in the U.S.
with stakes 102 stories high
NEW YORK
BY CHARLES V. BAGLI
AND JULIE CRESWELL
On the day it opened in 1931, the Empire
State Building carved out a special
place onthe NewYorkskyline, but it has
also been at the center of a succession of
battles for control by equally larger-
than-life figures, including Donald J.
Trump and Leona Helmsley.
Now, the 102-story tower is the prize
in yet another epic battle, which was
scheduled to start playing out in court
Monday.
On one side are the NewYork real es-
tate barons Peter L. Malkin and his son
Anthony E. Malkin, who control the
landmark tower but are minority own-
ers. They are within a whisker of land-
ing the deal of a lifetime, valued at $5.2
billion. It would offer to the public
shares in 19 properties in the New York
area that they oversee, including the
crown jewel, the Empire State Building.
The offering would catapult the
Malkin family into the elite of NewYork
Cityreal estate, valuingtheir stake at an
estimated $730 million and installing
Anthony Malkin as chairman of a major
new company, Empire State Realty
Trust.
But standing in their way is an eclect-
ic group of dissenters led by the Califor-
As Twitter moves markets,
a rushto head off #panic
BY AMY CHOZICK
AND NICOLE PERLROTH
Could the global economy hinge on 140
characters?
That is the question the financial in-
dustry and government regulators are
trying to answer after a Twitter hoax
last Tuesday that claimed that Presi-
dent Barack Obama had been injured in
an explosion at the White House. That
report caused the Dow Jones industrial
average to drop 150 points temporarily,
erasing $136 billion in market value.
The markets recovered in minutes,
but the episode has heightened regula-
tors concern about the meeting of so-
cial media and high-frequency trading.
The vulnerability stems, in part, from
the U.S. Securities and Exchange Com-
missions decision this month to let
companies and executives use social
media sites like Twitter and Facebook to
broadcast market-moving news.
High-frequency trading systems are
designed to make trades based on
keywords within milliseconds. The
hoax message also went out on a new
feature on Bloombergs financial data
terminals that delivers select Twitter
posts to hedge funds, investment banks
and other users.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Commodity Fu-
tures Trading Commission planned to
holdapublic meetinginWashingtonwith
a couple of dozen high-frequency traders
to discuss whether there should be addi-
tional safeguards to protect against the
effects of social media on markets.
Though markets rebounded last
Tuesday, some investors lost money on
the quickdecline; others made money, if
they had bet on a sharp drop.
In 2010, we passed Dodd-Frank, the
big financial reform bill, but nowhere in
there do they mention high-speed trad-
ing or technology, said Bart Chilton, a
MOHAMMAD ISMAIL/REUTERS
President Hamid Karzais office is said to
have received tens of millions of dollars.
AFGHANISTAN, PAGE 4
M.M. A., PAGE 16
NEW YORK, PAGE 20 TWITTER, PAGE 20
Ful l cur r ency rat es Page 21
ONE FC, since its inception in 2011, has quickly grown
into a major player
- The New York Times/ International Herald Tribune
ONE FC has found the winning formula
- USA TODAY
Sherilyn is getting ready for her fght, a
rare womens battle being staged as part
of a bigger event in Singapore
- BBC NEWS ASIA
ONE FC is Asias largest
mixed martial arts
organization
-- Philstar
ONE FC is a rapidly growing empire in the splintered
world of Asian combat sports
- The Straits Times
In Singapore, MMA has gotten
bigger because of ONE FC

- Yahoo!
ONE FC has already proven that it
can reach diverse demographics in
terms of sponsorship
- The Business Times
ONE FC. No other sport in the
world thats as unpredictable
or exciting
- FHM .
ONE FC has made signifcant inroads
around the region
- Agence France Presse .
ONE FC is Asias largest mixed martial
arts organization and features the best
fghters from the continent
- South China Morning Post
MMA has
developed
tremendously in
the region thanks
in large part to
the success of
the two-year-
old One FC
organization
- Fox Sports
Jake Butler squares off against his opponent
Friday at One FCs Kings & Champions
- Wall Street Journal
ONE FC commands 500 million viewers
across 28 countries in Asia and is also
broadcast live to other parts
of the world.
-Business Times Malaysia
ONE FCs last event featured the best fghters
from Australia, Brazil, France, Hong Kong,
Japan, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Pakistan,
the Philippines, Russia, Singapore,
Thailand and the U.S
- Huffngton Post
They (ONE FC) are the biggest MMA
organization in Asia, and their events
are seen on ESPN Star Sports.
- ESPN
ONE FC has laid
the groundwork
for the explosion
of the Asian MMA
scene
- GMA
ONE FC has become the dominant force in Asian MMA

- Yahoo! USA
Its still hard to fathom that ONE FC is less than two
years old, but at the rate its going, it will become
this enormous animal in the very near
futureif not already.

- Yahoo! Philippines
ONE FC, Asias largest mixed martial arts
organization, ends an exciting year with
yet another engaging offering.

- Business World
ONE FC controls 90% of the Asian
mixed martial arts market
- Globe Asia
Victor Cui is growing ONE FC into Asias dominant
company for mixed martial arts fghting
- Forbes Indonesia
In just under two years since its inception, ONE FC has
managed to corner 90% of the market share in Asian
MMA.
- The Star
Juan is one of three Singaporean debutants to
compete on the prestigious mixed martial arts
promotion,ONE FC
- XIN MSN
ONE FC is Asias biggest mixed
martial arts promotion
- Reuters
ONE FCs Jake Butler went from Wall Street to MMA.
- Newsday
ONE FC is the largest mixed martial
arts organization in the southern
hemisphere
- MSN Locker Room
One FC has a 90 per cent market share in Asia
- SportsBusiness
ONE FC, is the biggest show in Asia,
attracting 10,000-plus spectators
to their events.
- DNA India
ONE FC will be
broadcasted to
over 70 countries
around the world
with over 1 billion
potential viewers
- MSN Locker Room
ONE Fighting Championship wants to turn
Indonesia to Mixed Martial Arts
Heaven, provide better
compensation
- Jawa Pos
ONE FC has delivered on all of its promises felding more
and bigger events with each passing year, flling large-capacity
venues, striking up in-market partnerships with major
sponsors, and upping the production value
of its telecasts, just to name a few.
- Jakarta Globe
The Singapore-based promotion (ONE FC)
already enjoys a virtual monopoly
on the Asian market
- Jakarta Globe

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