The 21st Annual General Meeting (AGM) has given a new line-up of the Central Committee Members (CCM). Half are new faces, and we look forward to new ideas and approaches from them. The older members will undoubtedly provide stability and continuity in policy matters.

The 7th World Convention of AOTS Alumni Societies will be held on the 11-12th September 2006 in Mumbai, India. We will have a relatively large number of delegates from Kuala Lumpur this year. We look forward to their assistance in supporting us to apply to host the next World Convention.

Being an alumni society for Malaysians who have been trained in Japan, it should be our vision to utilise the knowledge gained to be disseminated throughout our country. One good platform is to conduct training programmes to be conducted by ex-trainees. Although this has been done on a rather limited scale all these years, we need greater focus to increase our training programmes.This should be a challenge for the new CCM. Members can contribute by proposing training programmes which they believe would be useful to themselves or their organisations.

Wishing all of you success in your undertakings, and good health to you and your family.



A. AZIZ Y. KAMARUDDIN
PRESIDENT
(azizyoup@gmail.com)