| From June 2000 |
Japan -- Tokyo, Osaka, Hyogo Pref., Kyoto Pref.: Journey to Forever project development, technology development, farming systems development, small-scale biofuels production development, general project preparation |
| 1997-2000 |
Hong Kong: Freelance writer, editor, consultant; May 1997, started work on Journey to Forever project |
| 1996-97 |
Hong Kong: Senior copy editor, journalist training, Hongkong Standard daily newspaper (freelance contract) |
| 1994-96 |
Hong Kong: Freelance writer, columnist, editor, consultant |
| 1993-94 |
Hong Kong: Senior copy editor, journalist training, Hongkong Standard daily newspaper |
| Jan. 1993 |
Stockholm: Arranging and taking part in an international seminar on 'Electronic Information and Journalism' at Stockholm University School of Journalism and Communications Studies |
| 1991-92 |
London: Proprietor of South Pole Publishing Services, an environmental publishing agency:
- produced a daily electronic newsletter distributed worldwide for a coalition of NGOs at the UN Climate Talks Ministerial Conference in Nairobi Sept. 1991, which produced the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), signed by 154 nations at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992;
- wrote and produced the Annual General Report for Britain's National Organic Gardening Association, 1992;
- consultancy projects, production projects, writing, editing
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| 1989-91 |
London: Features sub-editor, The Independent newspaper |
| 1987-89 |
Amsterdam: Publications Editor and Science Editor at the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Holland's main Third World development agency, which runs about 80 projects in developing countries and covers all aspects of rural development and primary health care. It also has a major tropical diseases laboratory, a large ethnological museum, and an international research library. Worked with all departments, editing and producing technical and non-technical books, manuals and journals on a wide variety of subjects for the Institute and for other institutes (WHO, CTA, etc). Editor of WHO monthly "AIDS Exchange Health Promotion" journal distributed in three languages to health workers worldwide |
| 1986-87 |
England: Freelance writer and editor (books and periodicals); I also ran an organic farming research project at a smallholding in Wiltshire |
| 1985 |
Hong Kong: Chief sub-editor at Specialist Publications, producing five regional periodicals -- Media, Travel Trade Gazette, two computer titles and a broadcasting journal; helped set up one of the first computerized magazine production systems in Hong Kong |
| 1981-84 |
Hong Kong-based freelance journalist, reporting on Hong Kong and South-east Asia for local, regional and overseas newspapers and journals. Hong Kong correspondent for Asian Business, contributor to New Scientist, The Observer, many other newspapers and journals in many parts of the world. For some examples, see Hong Kong and Southeast Asia -- A journalist follows his nose. I also ran an independent on-farm research and development project in a traditional Chinese village on Lantau Island in Hong Kong for three years. See Tai Long Wan -- Tales from a vanishing village |
| 1980 |
Hong Kong: Managing editor of The Sun, a new daily newspaper, and then managing editor of The Star, an English-language daily with a Chinese-language co-edition. Following the retirement of its founder-editor, The Star was a failing newspaper; I was employed to "save its life", and tripled the circulation within six months |
| 1978-79 |
London: Freelance writer and sub-editor at various newspapers and magazines; reported on Middle East and Third World issues |
| 1977-78 |
Hong Kong: Night editor and then managing editor, The Star, an independent English-language daily newspaper with a Chinese-language co-edition |
| 1976-77 |
Cape Town: Sub-editor, The Cape Times; I decided to leave South Africa following the apartheid government's response to the Soweto uprising of June 1976 (the police shot an estimated 2,000 schoolchildren). See About Handmade Projects and Journey to Forever |
| 1975 |
Johannesburg: Chief sub-editor, Rand Daily Mail 'Extra' black townships edition |
| 1974 |
Johannesburg: Music promoter in Soweto and the other Reef black townships, staged a series of mass open-air concerts, with recordings and movies. See Zebra Crossing -- On the wrong side of South Africa's racial divide |
| 1972-73 |
Johannesburg: Sub-editor at The World, mass-circulation black townships daily newspaper |
| 1971 |
Travelling in Britain, Europe and North Africa |
| 1970-71 |
London: Sub-editor at the Press Association in Fleet Street; freelance sub-editor at The Sun, various weeklies |
| 1969-70 |
Johannesburg: Sub-editor at The World, a mass-circulation black townships daily newspaper, later at Post, a "black" (non-racial) national weekly. I was deeply involved in black townships issues and spent much of my time in Soweto, until I was arrested for being there without a permit. I paid a fine and walked away, but it sparked a Security Police inquiry, and I left the country before they found out too much about what I'd been doing. This was a dangerous time in apartheid South Africa with its "emergency" laws -- friends and associates were jailed for long periods, many without trial, some were tortured, some were killed, some just vanished. |
| 1967-68 |
Johannesburg: Reporter at The Sunday Express, a national newspaper. I had done good reporting on black issues, but the newspapers I'd been working for wouldn't publish it, so I left a good job at a top newspaper to join a black newspaper. |
| 1966 |
Pretoria: Reporter at The Pretoria News |
| 1965 |
Cape Town: Journalism School |
