Federation of Asian Chemical Societies (FACS)
Last updated on 25 Oct., 2001
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Federation of Asian Chemical Societies (FACS)Last updated on 25 Oct., 2001 |
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FACS Newsletter 2/2001 Minutes of 37th EXCO Meeting Location: Meeting Room of Korean Chemical Society, Seoul, Korea Dr. Johnsee Lee (Taiwan), President 1. Opening Remarks Minutes Dr. Johnsee Lee, President of FACS, makes an opening
remark and expresses his gratitude on the behalf of FACS to Professor Jung-Il Jin,
President of Korean Chemical Society and his colleagues for their hospitality for hosting
the 37th EXCO meeting in Seoul. Due to the tight meeting agenda, the city tour that Korean
colleague arranged before was postponed. Make minor corrections and the minutes of the 36th EXCO
(Taipei) meeting is approved. A working committee meeting is held and a task force is
formed in Taipei right after 8ACC on last November. The future activities of FACS would
focus on the following activities: 1. Improving the communication among societies and
members by better use of the FACS Newsletter and
Website. 2. Strengthening the on-going FACS project networks. 3. Promoting chemistry
education in Asia Pacific region. 4. Encouraging the participation of industries. 5.
Assisting member societies to organize international conferences. 6. Preparation of 9ACC
2001. He urges the
supports from the EXCO members and the member societies of FACS. Professor Barry N. Noller, the President-elect of FACS, announces the information of 9ACC on the Websites of FACS as well as ChIN. The detailed information will be reported on the meeting Agenda # 11. For the occasion of UNESCO meeting on natural products was
held in Vietnam this March. Vietnamese colleague expressed his interest to host the next
Asian Chemical Congress (10ACC) 2003. The open application for hosting 10ACC should be
announced at the proper time. In order to communicate with member societies, the correct
e-mail address and the right contact person of each member society are required. If EXCO
member is familiar with any changes of each individual society, please notify the
secretariat by e-mail. We are quite worried about the missing contact of our member
societies. Mr. Lim Teck Thai, the Treasurer, he can not make to the
meeting and asked Dr. Singh, the Coordinator of Projects, to present the Treasurer's
report. A 4-page report is submitted including 2.FACS Receipts & Payment Statements as of April 30, 2000 and December 31, 1999. 3. FACS yearly
Subscription List and also the member societies who unpaid their dues. Mongolian Chemical Society and The Mendeleev Russian Chemical Society have been accepted and become the new member societies of FACS last General Assembly. And their membership dues are decided according to the meeting. There are U$120 (Category 3) for Mongolia and U$300 (Category 2) for Russia, respectively. Please remind the secretariat to notify these two member societies about their rights and obligations to FACS. According to the FACS Yearly Subscription List, the following member societies have not paid their annual dues for number of years, such as, Bangladesh (since 1995), India (since 1994), Iraq (since 1989), Jordan (since 1997) and Indonesia (since 1991). The message was sent to those societies before but it got no response. Please check their correct correspondents and ask for the due again as soon as possible. Send the notice to those societies next time, in the meantime, send a copy to the Treasurer. Complete report on the budget 2000 will be attached on the next meeting. The issue of FACS foundation is raised again, during the
discussion about FACS budget. President Lee suggests that FACS inquire the donation from
industrials and Company Associates that could become the major financial sponsorship of
FACS. Professor Noller suggests a fixed percentage of each chemical congress expenses
withheld and contribute to FACS fund. Dr. Singh proposes that imposing a surcharge on the
Asian Chemical Congress registration fee and donates to the Fund. Professor Ohtaki opposes
the surcharge on the registration fee. However, everyone agrees with the set-up of FACS
Foundation is a long-term goal. The EXCO decides to ask the Treasurer to formulate the
guideline and proposal of FACS foundation. The fund raising policy including the
responsibility of each FACS host country, donation from Industrial Company Associate and a
fund donation from each chemical congress of FACS. The amendments and statues of FACS
Foundation A detailed biennial report on FACS projects for 1997-1999
is published in the recent Newsletter (No. 1/2000) and FACS Web. The projector directors
were appointed or re-appointed as the listed on the Newsletter (p. 40 of No. 1/2000
issue). The Project Directors of APFAN, ANAIC,
ANCP and Natural Products are re-appointed. And the Co-directors of ACEN and ACEN/CREN are
to be appointed. The projector director and co-director of ChIN are switched (Professor
Xiao-Xia Li becomes the director to replace Dr. David Winkler). Professor Noller expresses his thanks to the project
directors and their activities and put into FACS Newsletters. In order to activate the
FACS projects and re-assign the responsibility of each project director by calling for the
directors' meeting in Malaysia this October. Professor Masato M. Ito, project director of ACEN, reports the activities and future activities of Asian-Pacific Chemical Education Network (ACEN) on WWW as well as on the attached sheets. The panel discussion was held during 8ACC in Taipei last November. The Special Symposium on Chemical Education in Asia was held in Taipei on 8ACC. That symposium was organized by Professors Chung-Yuan Mou (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) and Yoshito Takeuchi (Kanagawa University, Japan). The proceeding of this Special Symposium is published as a special issue of Chemical Education Journal (CEJ) and the materials of this Journal also available on the Web. Professor Xiao-Xia Lee, projector director of ChIN,
reports the recent progress of ChIN, a proposal to UNESCO was granted a partial support to
create the web archive of Asian Coordinating Group for Chemistry (ACGC). The new version
of FACS Web page covers all FACS projects is available on ChIN www server at The functions of ChIN Web page are: 1. Archiving ChIN activities; 2. Providing a mechanism for increasing communication between FACS members; 3. Providing a means of FACS electronic publication; 4. Others, such as helping chemists to be aware of the fast development of chemical research and the related activities. ChIN web page has been contributed to the Bulletin on Division of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences Japan (CICSJ) and also to the database of Yearbook of International Organizations, Union of International Associations. Those might be helpful to bring more publicity of ChIN. Due to the needs of publications of FACS newsletters in electronic form, promoting the communications among the FACS members as well as raising fund for FACS by the web advisement. Set up a new web server for FACS is highly recommended by EXCO members. Please ask Dr. David Winkler, the Co-director of ChIN, to complete the registration of FACS web page under FACS domain name. EXCO members accept the proposal for future activities of ACEN, which are: 1. Encouragement of launching home pages for Chemical Education in Asian-Pacific countries; 2. Encouragement of the submission of news and/ or articles to the ACEN home page: http://www.juen.ac.jp/scien/cssj/cerjrn1E.html. The duty of project coordinator has been discussed and suggested by EXCO members.
All the project directors are re-appointed, except ChIN, Professor Xiao-Xia Li and Dr. David Winkler are switched as the project director and Co-director. The Co-director of ACEN is preferably from Thailand from Thailand. The Co-director of ACEN/CREN is going to be appointed. Natural Products and Sub-project ANRAP are proposed to be combined and those will be reviewed next year. Sub-project LPLCE remained and a new sub-project (Low Cost Educational Publications) will be created. Sane will be the director. Singh suggests
Dr. Singh extends his invitation all FACS Projector Directors and EXCO members to IPOH
2000 this October. A report (on a separated sheet) from Professor Chow,
Chairman of the Publications Committee. He urges for the correct e-mail address of every
member society for mailings. Change the national member. Newsletter will also publish in
FACS web page starts from next issue. It is scheduled
to introduce our new member societies, Mendeleev Russian Chemical Society and Mongolian
Chemical Society on next issue. All EXCO members will be invited to join the advisory
board of FACS Newsletter. According to the statutes of FACS, the application
materials from Israel Chemical Society will be circled to every FACS society member and
ask for their opinion. Finally, EXCO meeting will make the recommendation to the Council
meeting and General Assembly of FACS, accordingly. The meeting schedule of 9ACC of FACS and World Chemical Congress (WCC) of IUPAC will be held at the same place and almost on the same period at Brisbane, Australia this July. It is scheduled FACS general assembly on July 1(Sunday), EXCO meeting on July 3 (Wednesday). And 9ACC will start from July 2 (Monday) to July 4 (Wednesday), 2001. The Registration Fees are tentatively suggested U$ 450 for
ACC (including lunches) and WCC participants, and U$ 200 for only ACC participants. There
is a suggestion on the discount registration fee U$200 for the chemists from the
developing countries attending both WCC and
ACC (which is accepted only by application and justified by the ACC organizer). The EXCO
members ask Australian organizer to send a separated ACC circular including scientific
program and registration fee to FACS member societies and calling for paper. The
announcement on
a separated title under 9ACC should be publicized, even though the scientific programs of
WCC and ACC are joined each other. The EXCO members worry about 9ACC will be buried under
overwhelming participation of WCC at Brisbane. EXCO members have this concern and
bring the attention to 9ACC organizer. Utilize FACS networks to expand the chemistry activities
to the developing countries. Send out the message to FACS member societies and find out
their big chemical events in their countries. In the meantime, search for the speaker who
is willing to give the lecture in these countries at that special occasion. The application of each FACS Award is nominated by FACS
member societies to EXCO meeting. The applications of FACS Awards are checked base on the
requirements of each award and the country distribution is also put into consideration.
The final decision of each award is reviewed by FACS presidents (President,
Past-President, and President-elect) and approved on EXCO meeting. There are two new Awards on the chemical education and the
contribution to environmental protection are put into consideration. Professors Ito,
Takeuechi, Mou and Ohtaki are recommended to work out the criteria for the chemical
education award. President Lee, and Dr. Su and Dr. Raghvan, the Director and the
Co-Director of ANCP, are responsible to formulate the criteria for the award on the
contribution to environmental protection. The secretariat notifies each responsible
individual to prepare documents for these two awards before next EXCO meeting. Candidates of host country for EXCO meeting are Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia. There are several important chemical conventions will take place by the end of this year and the beginning of 2001 for reference.
16. Venues of 12th General Assembly and 10th ACC Representative of Vietnam expressed his interest to host 12th General Assembly and 10th ACC in Hanoi, 2003. The secretariat will send the letter to Vietnam and get the confirmation from Vietnam. 17. FACS Web Page FACS web has been discussed and reported on this meeting
Agenda # 7. Hosting 11th ACC of 2005 is open for application and
December 31, 2000 will be the deadline. Korean colleagues express their enthusiasm for
hosting 11th ACC in Korea on 2005. The secretariat will ask for the official agreement
from Korea. Ask the Mongolia Chemical Society to
host an EXCO meeting first before making any decision for hosting ACC.
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