 After seven years as Leader Writer and columnist with the "New Straits Times", Malaysia's leading English-language daily, he joined Asiaweek magazine in Hong Kong as a Senior Writer.From there, he left for a year in Bermuda, as a Senior Writer with the Bermuda Business magazine, before returning home to Malaysia to complete the book "A Malaysian Journey".He was the Malaysian Press Institute's Journalist of the Year for 1985, and Bermuda's Print Journalist of the Year for 1991.