Specializing in East Asia security issues at News-Decoder.com, a news service and global forum for millennials involving dozens of fellow former Reuters reporters.

Consulting on coverage of national security-related issues.

Taught advanced newswriting and reporting to graduate students at a leading Chinese foreign-studies university, the Shanghai International Studies University.

As Reuters' defense technology correspondent during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, specialized in the crossroads of government, military and business. Prior, focused on CIA and the intelligence community, high technology and East Asia-related security issues. Ahead of the year 2000, led Reuters' coverage of international, diplomatic and technical aspects of a feared "Y2K" computer millennium-rollover glitch. Served as Reuters' chief representative on the Pentagon's rotating National Media Pool and travelled to Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Turkey on the U.S. Defense Secretary's "Doomsday" plane, as well as on Air Force One with U.S. presidents.In the 1990s, one of my scoops contributed to the creation of a U.S. Senate select committee aimed at ending doubts about the fate of American service personnel listed as missing in action or otherwise unaccounted for after the U.S. war in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Traveled with then-U.S. Senator John Kerry, who headed the panel, throughout the former French Indochina to cover steps toward the long-delayed normalization of relations with Vietnam. Covered the start of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq from the Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier strike force that fired the first shots; reported from Bahrain and the U.S. military's Central Command's forward headquarters in Qatar.

Responsible for covering news from Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and Burma during the Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia, a cockpit of international tension.Traveled widely as "fireman" throughout Asia for top stories including first flight into Kabul after Soviet invasion; Indira Gandhi's return to power in India; Student-led uprising and massacre in Kwangju, South Korea; First Iran-Iraq wartime OPEC conference (Bali); Ethic bloodletting in Jaffna, Sri Lanka; ASEAN ministerial meetings in Indonesia; Frequent trips with guerrillas in Vietnamese-occupied Cambodia; Gandhi assassination and anti-Sikh backlash.During 1985 sabbatical, analyzed regional security issues for Jane's Defence Weekly as Special Writer and contributed to Newsweek Magazine as a Bangkok stringer.

Paris Correspondent in two-person news bureau.Covered French markets, OECD club of rich nations and international business news. Moved to New York in April 1975 to help edit newly launched Dow Jones News Retrieval Service, .advanced to AP-DJ World News Desk as copy editor.