HEADLINES: Johnson replaces Ball at FT Asia

<p>Deirdre Ball has left the Financial Times, and her responsibilities </p><p>as regional director for Southeast Asia and Australia have been taken up </p><p>by the newspaper's Asia-Pacific vice-president Bradley Johnson. </p><p><BR><BR> </p><p>Ms Ball joined the FT in May 1998 after nine years as Southeast Asia </p><p>regional ad director at Reader's Digest. </p><p><BR><BR> </p>