ASEAN MEET:

DTI recently opened the 43rd Meeting of the Asean Committee on Standards and Quality (ACCSQ) and its related meetings through its officers and the Asean heads of delegations. The five-day meeting was held last April 20-24 at the ballroom of Crimson Hotel in Alabang, Muntinlupa City. Photo shows (from left): Malati Abd Ghani, acting head of National Standards Centre in Brunei Darussalam ; Fadilah Baharin, director-general, Ministry of Industry and Primary Resources, Department of Standards Malaysia; Bounpone Bouapheng, acting director general, Department of Standardization and Metrology, Ministry of Science and Technology in Lao PDR; Myanmar Ambassador Ye Myint Aung; outgoing chair Chan Sopha, deputy director general, Institute of Standards of Cambodia, Ministry of Industry and Handicraft; Asean Secretariat assistant director Hassan Ali; Trade and Industry-Industry Development Group assistant secretary Ceferino Rodolfo; Department of Health-Food and Drug Administration assistant secretary Nicolas Lutero III; Gerardo Maglalang, product testing chief, DTI-Bureau of Philippine Standards; Quyen Vu Thi Tu, deputy director, International Cooperation Department-Directorate for Standards, Metrology and Quality in Cambodia; Pisit Rangsaritwutikul, deputy secretary- general, Thai Industrial Standards Institute; Kukuh Syaefuddin Achmad, incoming chair deputy director general for research and cooperation on standardization, The National Standardization Agency of Indonesia; and, Steven Tan, group director, Quality and Excellence, Spring Singapore.