Ken Howe joined the South China Morning Post in August as a senior editor on the Business Desk. He came from the San Francisco Chronicle where he was business editor for seven years. During his tenure, he combined the staffs of two merging newspapers, the Chronicle and the Examiner, and expanded the staff. Three times, the section was named one of the top five business sections in the US by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (2002). His reporters won numerous awards for stories on technology, energy and consumer issues. As a reporter at the Chronicle, Mr. Howe wrote about banking, energy and consumer issues and, as an investigative reporter, covered politics and law enforcement.