Dhaka, Oct 27 (BDNEWS) - Eminent journalist Sayed Kamaluddin joined the weekly Holiday as acting editor this week.
Kamal, former press minister of Bangladesh to Washington DC, began his career with the Daily Azad in 1961. Till the closure of the Hong Kong-based Far Eastern Economic Review in 2004, he worked with the reputed weekly as Dhaka correspondent and freelance writer.
He also worked as correspondent of The Financial Times, London, the Economist, London, and the Economist Intelligence Unit in addition to the FEER job.
Returning from Washington in 2004, he wrote for the Financial Express, the New Age, the Holiday and the Economic and Business Review of Dawn, Pakistan.
Kamal joined the BBC World Service as Dhaka correspondent in 1974 before joining the Agence France-Presse, the French news agency.
Kamal left the country in 1975 for Hong Kong where he worked for the AFP, Iranian Radio and Television and the Voice of America.
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