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1.0 INTERNATIONAL UNION OF ARCHITECTS (UIA)
The meeting was informed that Gaetan Siew had interest to
run for UIA President.
The next UIA Council Meeting would be held in May 2005.
2.0 APEC ARCHITECT PROJECT
The 4th Steering Committee meeting will be held on 21 to
23 September 2004 in Honolulu, Hawaii.
a. NCARB will be hosting the 4th Steering Committee Meeting.
b. The meeting was informed that the LAM International
Affairs Committee would be the Monitoring Committee. Dato'
Ar Esa would check with LAM whether CAEM would be part of
the Monitoring Committee.
3.0 CO-OPERATIVE ACTIVITIES WITH AUSTRALIA
There was no feedback received from Australia to date.
4.0 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Invitation to Register Interest to Export Services
The Secretariat would compile a list of Architect Firms
who provide export services.
5.0 ASEAN FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT ON SERVICES (AFAS)
a. ASEAN Council of Architect
Council had approved for the formation of ASEAN Council
of Architects (ACA). The meeting agreed that PAM should
initiate and invite Architect Organisation in the ASEAN
region to form ACA. For a start, the idea of ACA can be
brought up during PAM-SIA Dialogue.
The ASEAN Register was brought up at the last AFAS CCS
Meeting.
6.0 MIDA
The Committee was informed that MIDA, under MITI, is now
in charge of promoting the Services Sector. Once PAM has
the CD of PAM e-Directory and Architects Malaysia, a copy
of it will be sent to MIDA. The CD or Webpage is targeted
to be ready in mid August 2004.
7.0 MTEN
On Ar Tan Pei Ing's report on the "Kumpulan Perunding
Globalisasi Kebangsaan (KPAK) MTEN ke 29" on 29 April
2004 regarding the 3rd Paper, presented by Multimedia Development
Corporation (MDC) on "Aligning Human Capital Development
with Future Technological Advancement", the meeting
agreed to support the proposals presented in the paper.
8.0 MATRADE
At the previous meeting, it was reported that PSDC would
prepare the circular from member's feedback on the current
tax incentives to promote member's feedback. However, so
far there had been no feedback received.
9.0 NAPSEC
Members of NAPSEC have been invited to submit write-ups
and photographs related to members' Professional services
for posting on NAPSEC's website. PAM was preparing a similar
set up but it would be e-Directory which would be put up
on the website and not printed version.
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