{"id":27330,"date":"2018-09-24T10:53:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T09:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=27330"},"modified":"2018-09-24T10:53:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T09:53:23","slug":"asian-business-chamber-awards-host-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/24\/asian-business-chamber-awards-host-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Business Chamber awards host revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Award-winning actor Nina Wadia will host the Asian Business Chamber of Commerce\u2019s (ABCC) annual dinner and awards. \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Nina (pictured) has an acting career spanning 25 years, starring in a number of in sitcoms and soap operas including playing Zainab Masood in EastEnders and Mrs Hussein in Still Open All Hours, a spin-off of the sitcom Open All Hours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In 2013 she won the Outstanding Achievement in Television award at the Asian Awards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Nina will be hosting the ABCC\u2019s 31st annual dinner and awards, which will be taking place at the International Convention Centre on Saturday, 17 November.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">ABCC president Qasim Majid, president of the ABCC said: \u201cWe are absolutely over the moon that Nina has agreed to compere this year\u2019s ABCC annual dinner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cNina is a huge star of stage and screen, and is best known for her roles in the TV comedy hit show \u2018Goodness Gracious Me\u2019, and, of course, one of the greatest British TV soaps, \u2018EastEnders\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI\u2019m truly excited at the prospect of another fun filled evening, celebrating the very best of Birmingham\u2019s business community.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This year\u2019s annual dinner and awards aims to celebrate diversity and inclusion in the business community, following the launch of the ABCC\u2019s \u2018Diversity on Boards\u2019 campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The headline sponsors for this year\u2019s awards dinner are Douglas Wright Restaurants (T\/A McDonald\u2019s), HSBC and Birmingham City University.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Award-winning actor Nina Wadia will host the Asian Business Chamber of Commerce\u2019s (ABCC) annual dinner and awards. \u00a0 Nina (pictured) has an acting career spanning 25 years, starring in a number of in sitcoms and soap operas including playing Zainab Masood in EastEnders and Mrs Hussein in Still Open All Hours, a spin-off of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}