AP business editor in Asia named Tokyo bureau chief

Malcolm Foster, the Associated Press business editor for the Asia-Pacific region, was named Monday as the new Tokyo bureau chief.

An AP story states, “Based at the Asia-Pacific regional desk in Bangkok since 2005, Foster helped strengthen and expand coverage of the fast-expanding economies of the Far East and South Asia, assigning and editing stories and overseeing a team of business writers from Mumbai to Singapore.

“Foster succeeds Joseph Coleman, who resigned to teach at the University of Indiana. In his new post, he will report to Patrick McDowell, AP’s Asia-Pacific editor.

“After working at Bloomberg News in Tokyo and New York for six years, Foster joined the AP in 1999 at the cooperative’s International Desk in New York.”

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