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HANOI - On my journey through Asia looking for talented correspondents who will make up our team at Global News Enterprises and meeting with government officials to establish and register our news bureaus, I took some time out this morning ...Read More

HANOI - Two days ago I left Beijing and have landed in Hanoi, Vietnam to continue the journey to build our team of correspondents across Asia for Global News Enterprises. Here in Hanoi I am finally able to freely post ...Read More

[caption id="attachment_116" align="alignnone" width="450" caption="I gave a speech at the Foreign Correspondents"][/caption] I gave a speech last week (Sept. 17) to the Foreign Correspondents Club in Hong Kong, hosted by one of our new freelance regional editors and correspondents, Matt Driskill. ...Read More

After flying late Wednesday night from Hong Kong to Beijing, I tried to post first thing when I hit the ground but ran head long into the virtual wall of China. Wordpress is blocked, apparently. So no blogging. And so ...Read More

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 17, 2008 HONG KONG - The Foreign Correspondents Club here is a throwback to the colonial era, an elegant building that dates back to 1917. It carries the weight of history and a colorful past of foreign correspondents who ...Read More

HONG KONG - In the bleak morning light of my first full day here, the stock markets in Hong Kong and on mainland China began reeling the moment they opened. News of the Monday meltdown on Wall Street hit hard ...Read More

HONG KONG- United Airlines flight No. 895 arrived in the long shadows of the late afternoon and came in low, skirting the edge of mainland China and then over the spectacular Hong Kong harbor, a green-blue canvas streaked white with ...Read More

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 REFLECTIONS ON A BIG WEEK FOR GLOBAL NEWS AND A CALL TO NATIONAL SERVICE ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF 9-11 IN NEW YORK. I wanted to take some time before the trip to Hong Kong to reflect on what was ...Read More

Over the next three weeks, I'll be meeting potential correspondents in four key cities for us: Read More

We're really picking up steam as we brought in some extraordinarily talented people this week, including, Poynter picked up on our hires and you can read about it here. [caption id="attachment_22" align="alignleft" width="74" caption="New Global News Enterprises ME Barbara E. Martinez"][/caption] The biggest ...Read More