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The next Biennial Conference of the Asian Association for Lexicography, ASIALEX 2011, will be held in Kyoto, Japan, about 22-24 August 2011. The first circular will be out in April or May 2010. The deadline for the proceedings papers (for review) will be around March 2011. Once more details become available, they will be posted here.

At the previous conference, ASIALEX 2009, held in Bangkok, Thailand, a New Board was elected by the members present. The current board members are: Prof. Zafar Iqbal (President), from Pakistan Prof. Yukio Tono (Vice-President), from Japan Dr. 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 Mr. Deny A. Kwary, from Indonesia and Denmark Prof. Li Lan, from Hong Kong Dr. Saravanan Raja, from India Prof. Jirapa Vitayapirak, from Thailand Dr. Gao Yongwei, from China

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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 six biennial conferences have been organised, each one in a different Asian country: ASIALEX 1997: Hong Kong (inaugural meeting) ASIALEX 1999: Guangzhou, China (1st conference) 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)

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 Board

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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