I have been editor-in-chief of general-interest and business/financial magazines in Australia (Sydney) and Asia (Hong Kong, Tokyo, Bangkok), roving Asia-Pacific correspondent for Fortune magazine and, earlier, for Reader's Digest (US parent edition), war correspondent (Vietnam and Cambodia, the Soviet Afghan War and its US aftermath and Iraq) and several Asian insurgencies (Malaya, Philippines). Other assignments have included the Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK and Benazir Bhutto assassinations, Moscow Olympics, the economic rise of China, Japan and Southeast and Central Asia, and the circumnavigation by road of South America.