March 4, 2009 (FinancialWire) -- China Cablecom Holdings, Ltd. (NASDAQ: CABL) (Current Market Cap: US$4.47 Mil.) has appointed Sikan Tong as its chief financial officer. He replaces Colin Sung, the company's former president and CFO, who has resigned effective March 31 in order to pursue other professional opportunities.

Tong, who formerly served as senior vice president of finance at China Cableco, will assume Sung's role as CFO on March 31. Tong began his career in the audit practice of the Shanghai office of PriceWaterhouseCoopers, where he served clients including Atlas Copco, Ecolab, Nokia, AT&T, Unilever, and Bacardi.

Prior to serving as the SVP of finance at China Cablecom, Tong was the CFO at Merrylin International Holding, which manages Merrylin restaurants and Motel 168 hotel chains in China.

Shanghai-based China Cablecom is a joint-venture provider of cable television services in the People's Republic of China, operating in partnership with a local state-owned enterprise authorized by the PRC government to control the distribution of cable TV services through the deployment of analog and digital cable services.

China Cablecom now operates 28 cable networks with over 1.4 million paying subscribers.

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