1. 1 APAN Secretariat Report 21 July 2006 Dr. Wanchai Rivepiboon MD, APAN-Sec

2. 2 Agenda n APAN Sec Activities n Financial Report n FY2006 Budget Plan

3. 3 APAN Sec Activities n Host, maintain and update the APAN Website n Provide overall organization services for APAN meetings –Coordinated with local organizer in arranging for 22nd APAN meeting –Established communication with the organizers of 23rd APAN meeting

4. 4 APAN Sec Activities (Cont ’ d) n Provide meeting summary report as well as posting the summary to the APAN website in a timely manner –21th APAN meeting –Program Committee monthly VC meetings –Organizing Committee monthly VC meetings

5. 5 APAN Sec Activities (Cont ’ d) n Provide services to potential and existing APAN members –Process and maintain applications –Respond to inquiries and requests n APAN-NZ contact change to REANNZ n New associate member, MOST:Thailand

6. 6 APAN Sec Activities (Cont ’ d) n Collect membership fees n Maintain APAN mailing lists –Updated mailing lists as per requests received n Encouraged potential groups to perceive importance of being APAN member and assisted them in subscribing process.

7. 7 APAN Sec Activities (Cont ’ d) n Published organization’ s important information through pamphlets and other mediums. n Assisted and provided optimum financial support for 22nd APAN Meeting fellows (30 fellows)

8. 8 APAN Sec Activities (Cont ’ d) n Monthly Newsletter n Provide general support to APAN members, committee and working groups –Coordinated with members in updating APAN link –Prepared information as per requests received

9. 9 Financial Report (Jan 06 – Jun 06)

10. 10 Table 1: Membership Contribution Based on Gross GDP http://www.apan.net/member/member-right.htm No.MemberGDP (millions$)Square rootFee=round off*10 ($) 1AU410,5906416,000 2BD47,3282182,000 3CN1,237,145111211,000 4HK161,5234024,000 5IN515,0127187,000 6JP3,978,782199520,000 7KR476,6906907,000 8LK16,3731281,000 9MY95,1573083,000 10NP5,493741,000 11NZ99,9973143,000 12PK61,2002472,000 13PH77,0762783,000 14SG86,9692953,000 15TH126,4073563,000 16TW281,5005315,000

11. 11 Table 2: Received Membership Fees

12. 12 Table 3: Receivable Membership Fees

13. 13 Table 4: Revenue (Jan 06 – June 06)

14. 14 Table 5: Expenses (Jan 06 – Jun 06)

15. 15 Table 6: Balance (as of 31 Jun 06)

16. 16 Table 7: Expected Revenue (FY2006)

17. 17 Table 8: Estimated Expenses (FY2006)

18. 18 Table 9: Comparison of Estimated Expenses No.Description 2006 (US$) Estimated 2005 (US$)2004 (US$)2003 (US$) 1 Salary19,27737,92341,37036,500 2 Equipment3,000 7,339-1,200 3 Office Expense2,00012,3717,5906,810 4 Communication Cost300533-- 5 Fellowship12,00015,85112,40311,100 6 Conference Supporting5,000-1,0002,000 7 International Travel12,00011,60812,9119,080 8 TAX + VAT 12,0009,869-5,420 9Miscellaneous1,000--1,601 Total Expenses 66,57795,49475,27473,711

19. 19 Table 10: Comparison of Expenses from 2003-2006 US$ FY

20. 20 Table 11: Comparison Chart of Expected Expense 2006200520042003

21. 21 Table 12: Estimated Balance (FY2006)

22. 22 Organization Updates n The transfer of partnership from Dr. Wanchai to Dr. Vimolrat will be effective when APAN Foundation is registered successfully. n Dr. Issariya has commenced as deputy MD since June 06 and she will join Secretariat team at the same time when Dr. Wanchai leaves.

23. 23 Organization Updates (Cont ’ d) n At present, Thailand has 2 servers which are located at Uni-Net (master server) and Thaisarn (mirror server). n Mailing list has been moved to Uni- Net server successfully (master.apan.net). The database is completely checked.

24. 24 Organization Updates (Cont ’ d) n We are able to generate user name (xxx@apan.net) for members in secretariat team. Thus, everyone can contact Pujan through pujan@apan.net or send e-mail to Dr. Vimolrat at vimolrat@apan.net. vimolrat@apan.net

25. 25 Organization Updates (Cont ’ d) n APAN Limited Partnership is being changed to APAN Foundation. n Being Limited Partnership, the organization has to pay a 7% VAT. n A foundation does not have to pay 7% VAT.

26. 26 Thank you for your attention