The new President of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) is Genichi Hashimoto, President of NHK-Japan.
He was elected at the General Assembly in Hanoi at the weekend to succeed Zainal Abidin Iberahim of RTM-Malaysia, who has been acting ABU President since Katsuji Ebisawa resigned from the post early in 2004.
Mr Hashimoto will serve a three-year term, starting on 1 January. An engineer by training, he joined NHK in 1968 and was General Managing Director/Executive Director-General for Engineering before becoming President.