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The next Biennial Conference of the Asian Association for Lexicography, ASIALEX 2013, will be held in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, from the 20th to the 22nd of August 2013. For more information, see the conference website here.

At the previous conference, ASIALEX 2011, held in Kyoto, Japan, a New Board was elected by the members present. The current board members are, in alphabetical order: Mrs. Susanne Bae, from South Korea Prof. Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, from Belgium and South Africa Prof. Chu-Ren Huang (Vice-President), from Hong Kong Prof. Shin Ishikawa, from Japan Mr. Ilan Kernerman, from Israel Dr. Deny A. Kwary (Secretary), from Indonesia Prof. Lan Li, from Hong Kong Prof. Yukio Tono (President), from Japan Prof. Shigeru Yamada (Treasurer), from Japan

Membership

Membership of Asialex is free and linked to a mailing list. To become a member, and to subscribe to the mailing list, simply go here.

Previous Conferences

Prof. Gregory James hosted the inaugural meeting of Asialex in 1997, in Hong Kong, and since then seven biennial conferences have been organised, as follows: ASIALEX 1997: Hong Kong (inaugural meeting) ASIALEX 1999: Guangzhou, China (1st conference) [photo] ASIALEX 2001: Seoul, South Korea (2nd conference) ASIALEX 2003: Tokyo, Japan (3rd conference) ASIALEX 2005: Singapore (4th conference) ASIALEX 2007: Chennai, India (5th conference) ASIALEX 2009: Bangkok, Thailand (6th conference) ASIALEX 2011: Kyoto, Japan (7th conference)

History

The Asialex history as covered by Kernerman Dictionary News: KDN 5, July 1997: Dictionaries in Asia and ASIALEX KDN 6, July 1998: The First ASIALEX Regional Symposium KDN 8, July 2000: The ASIALEX Second Biennial Conference, Seoul KDN 11, July 2003: The Third ASIALEX International Congress, Tokyo KDN 13, July 2005: The Fourth ASIALEX International Congress, Singapore KDN 15, July 2007: ASIALEX now

Newsletters

In the early days of Asialex, several Newsletters were compiled by Dr. Amy Chi. A selection is presented below: Newsletter 0: March 1997 Newsletter 1: April 1997 Newsletter 2: November 1997 Newsletter 3: June 1998 Newsletter 4: February 1999

Previous Boards

The 2009-2011 board members were: Prof. Zafar Iqbal (President), from Pakistan Prof. Yukio Tono (Vice-President), from Japan Prof. Mubina Talaat (Secretary), from Pakistan Prof. Shigeru Yamada (Treasurer), from Japan Dr. Amy Chi, from Hong Kong Prof. Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, from Belgium and South Africa Dr. Deny A. Kwary, from Indonesia and Denmark Prof. Lan Li, from Hong Kong Dr. Saravanan Raja, from India Prof. Jirapa Vitayapirak, from Thailand Dr. Gao Yongwei, from China The 2007-2009 board members were: Prof. Jirapa Vitayapirak (President), from Thailand Prof. Zafar Iqbal (Vice-President), from Pakistan Dr. Pattama Patpong (Secretary), from Thailand Prof. Nongsamorn Pongpanich (Treasurer), from Thailand Dr. Amy Chi, from Hong Kong Prof. Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, from Belgium and South Africa Prof. Gregory James, from Hong Kong Prof. Varadarajan Jayadevan, from India Prof. Yukio Tono, from Japan Prof. Shigeru Yamada, from Japan

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