HONG KONG, Sept. 23 (Xinhuanet) -- Financial Times, a leading business information journal, announced here Tuesday that it has launched a new edition for Asia, both in print and online.

　　The new English-language edition will boost the circulation of the global business newspaper and increase the universe of www.FT.com users across the Asia region. The newspaper will be printed in Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo and Seoul, it said.

　　According to John Ridding, editor and publisher for the Financial Times' Asia edition, the new edition will incorporate increased coverage of Asian business, financial and political news, comment and analysis.

　　The Asian content will be commissioned and edited by the company's recently established news-editing operation in Hong Kong. The Financial Times also expanded its well-established reporting teams, reinforcing its bureaux in Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and the Republic of Korea, said Ridding.

　　He said the features of the new Asia edition include: increased news and analysis of Asian business and financial affairs; more coverage of arts and leisure for the Asia region; a new "Investingin China" section, published every Wednesday; a revamped "Global Investing Fund Management" section, published every Monday; an Asian leaders series of interviews with top-level political and business figures from across the Asia region, etc.

　　Printed in twenty-one sites across the world, the Financial Times newspaper currently has a circulation of 460,000 copies worldwide, and a readership of over 1.6 million. Enditem