Zoher Abdoolcarim is based in Hong Kong. In 2008 he was appointed as Asia Editor of TIME International, overseeing the TIME Asia edition. Prior to this role, he was a senior editor at TIME Asia, where he helped shape all aspects of TIME’s coverage of Asia. Prior to joining TIME Asia, Abdoolcarim was managing editor of Asiaweek and an editor at Asian Business. Over the course of his career, he has been a foreign correspondent based in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, with reporting assignments in the Philippines, India, Brunei and Hong Kong. He has been involved in watershed Asian stores including the Ninoy Aquino assassination, the ousters of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines and former Indonesian Prime Minister Suharto, the Tiananmen Square killings in Beijing, Hong Kong’s handover to China and the Asian financial crisis. An ethnic Indian born and raised in Hong Kong, Abdoolcarim is a fluent Cantonese speaker and a British national.