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Acknowledgement
Earlier
version of this website
received financial support from
CIDA
(Canadian International Development Agency)
through the
Tree Link Project.
ACIAR
provided support to acquire the
necessary equipment and software.
UPM
Forestry Faculty supported the
Internet services till 2002.
Currently support is provided by the
IT
Unit, FRIM.
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No.
24 : Dec 2009
Message from the Chairman:
I am writing this message as the newly elected
Chairman of APAFRI Executive Committee 2009-2012.
My sincere thanks to all the members, who
were present at the Fifth General Assembly
convened on 4 October 2009 in Kuala Lumpur,
for electing me to the post. This is going
to be a very challenging task for me for
the next three years, especially in view
of the fact that I just assumed the position
of Director General of Forest Research Institute
Malaysia (FRIM) 18 months earlier. My two
immediate predecessors – Dr Abdul
Razak Mohd Ali, former Director General
of FRIM; and Mr Sarath Fernando, Conservator
General of Forests, Sri Lanka – have
made the task of even sustaining APAFRI
more challenging than ever, as APAFRI had
experienced tremendous growth during their
terms as Chairman of the APAFRI Executive
Committee over the past nine years.
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No.
23 : June 2009
Message from the Chairman:
Without realizing it, the current Executive
Committee, which I was elected to chair on
31 July 2006, is coming to the end of its
three-year term. The next General Assembly,
the fifth since APAFRI’s establishment
in 1995, will need to be convened this year,
to elect the Executive Committee to administer
APAFRI for the next three years. The
Secretariat has started the process, since
mid last year, to organize this once-in-three-year
event. In order to attract better attendance
to reach the required quorum, the General
Assembly is typically held together with an
international or regional event.
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No.
22 : December 2008
Message from the Chairman:
The year 2008 must be one of the most eventful
years for the Asia-Pacific region. A growing
number of natural disasters had caused huge
damages to the region. Some of these were
deadly devastating, such as the Nargis cyclone
which hit Myanmar in early May; and the severe
earthquakes of Sichuan Province, China. There
were also a number of human-induced ones like
the bombings in Mumbai, India; and the political
unrests in countries such as China, the Philippines
and Thailand. The later was so serious that
the International Airport of Bangkok was seized
by the demonstrators and shut down completely
for several days, disrupting many activities
in the region, including one workshop organized
by APAFRI.
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No.
21 : June 2008
Message from the Chairman:
Greetings from Colombo! The Asia Pacific Forestry
Week in April must be, by far, one of the
biggest forestry events, if not the biggest,
organized by FAO in this region. The week-long
event, in conjunction with the Asia Pacifi
c Forestry Commission session meeting, was
attended by more than 500 registered participants
from all APFC member countries and most of
the regional, and many international, organizations
related to forestry. APAFRI assisted FAO in
the overall organizing of the weeklong event,
handled the on-line registration which started
a few months earlier, and also in compiling
and producing a CD for this event.
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No. 20 : December 2007
Message from the Chairman:
Greetings from Colombo! The year 2007 is coming
to an end, and by the time this issue of the
APAFRI Newsletter reaches you we would be
right into the first quarter of 2008.The year
2007 had been a pretty good year for most
of the countries in the region. In many of
the countries’ the economy made a rapid
recovery and continued to grow steadily throughout
the year.
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No.
19 : June 2007
Message from the Chairman:
Greetings from Colombo, SriLanka!How
time flies! It is almost a year now since
the last General Assembly that has elected
me as the Chairman of the Executive Committee
of APAFRI. In this message, my second, as
the Chairman I am delighted to highlight
some APAFRI’s activities and events
during the past six months; as wellas those
that have been planned for the remaining
months of 2007.
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No.
18 : December 2006
Message from the Chairman:
Greetings from Colombo, SriLanka!
First of all, allow me to thank all the members
who were present atthe Fourth General Assembly
that was convened on 31 July in Kuala Lumpur,
for electing me to be the Chairman of the
APAFRI Executive Committee. This is going
to be a very challenging task for me for the
next three years. My immediate predecessor,
Dr Abdul Razak Mohd Ali,has made the task
of even sustaining APAFRI more challenging
than ever, as APAFRI had experienced tremendous
growth during his two terms as Chairman of
the APAFRI Executive Committee.
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No.
17 : June 2006
Message from the Chairman:
A major task and the top priority
of the Secretariat this year is the organizing
of the Fourth General Assembly, due once in
three years. The last General Assembly was
convened in Manila on 23 October 2003, so
the next one is due this year. A call for
proposals from member institutions to host
the Fourth APAFRI General Assembly in 2006
had been posted on the APAFRI web site early
this year.
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No.
16 : December 2005
Message from the Chairman:
The year 2005 has been yet
another milestone year in the short 10-year
history of APAFRI. There were many significant
events during the year. The events during
the first six months of this year had already
been reported in the June Issue of APAFRI
Brief, I would therefore like to briefly highlight
those others which APAFRI has involved in
during the rest of 2005 in this year-end message.
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No.
15 : June 2005
Message from the Chairman:
These past six months have
been rather hectic for APAFRI. In February,
APAFRI, with financial support from the USDA
Forest Service, organized a workshop on coconut
beetles together with FAO and Nong Lam University
in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. This workshop
was an activity of the Asia Pacific Forest
Invasive Species Network (APFISN), and was
its second workshop since its launching during
the Twentieth Session of Asia Pacific Forest
Commission in Fiji last April.
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No.
14 : December 2004
Message from the Chairman:
How time flies. Another year
has slipped by and gone. After the rather
hectic 2003, this year is comparatively uneventful.
Other than involving in about half-a-dozen
meetings and workshops, the Secretariat was
busy tidying up the administrative details
following the election of the new Executive
Committee during the General Assembly in Manila,
last year.
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No.
13 : June
2004
Message from the Chairman:
Greetings to all our colleagues
in the Asia Pacific region! Once again I take
this privilege to pen a few words for the
foreword of this edition of our newsletter.
Over these last six months or so, I am proud
to report that APAFRI has been keeping itself
very busy through its various activities.
At the recently concluded 20th Asia Pacific
Forestry Commission Meeting in Fiji, APAFRI
had an opportunity to play a crucial role.
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12 : December 2003
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11 : June
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10 : December 2002
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9 : June
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8 : October 2001
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