Top editor resigns ...

• Position: Post Publishing PCL's David Armstrong

David Armstrong, the president and chief operating officer of Thailand's Post Publishing--the Bangkok Post company--is to retire from his position at the end of the year.

Armstrong says he is retiring from full-time work after almost 40 years in journalism but he plans to write and take on some consultancy work. "I'm not calling it retirement," he says. "I'm sure retirement is death, or something close to it."

Armstrong's career began in 1969, when he joined The Australian--then only five years old--as a general reporter.

He went on...