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Baseball Federation of Asia

to approach a fresh direction

for development of baseball

Photo: Allan Mak

President Tom Peng announces launching of
BFA website and new tournament scheme
The first Executive Committee was held on Monday, July 29 in Taipei chaired by President Tom Peng
and the discussions were focused on development of baseball in the region, particularly China and
West Asia. Plans of training camps, seminars and umpire schools were introduced and Olympic
reinstatement campaign strategy in Asia was discussed in detail.

All the EC members from China (Ms Wei Shen, VP), Chinese Taipei (Mr. Tom Peng, President) and
Mr. Hua-wei Lin, Secretary General), Hong Kong (Mr. Allan Mak, Member-at-Large), Korea (Mr. Jong-
Up Kim, VP), Japan (Mr. Yoshinobu Suzuki, VP), Philippines (Mr. Tom Navasero, Member-at-Large), and
Thailand (Mr. Vutichai Udomkarnjananan, Member-at-Large), plus Kazuhiro Tawa - Senior Adviser and
Syed Khawar Shah - West Asia Development Executive Director joined the meeting.

A new BFA website (http://www.baseballasia.org/) will be launched in September and the newly
recruited BFA secretariat, Mr. Richard Lin (Director, Administration), Mr. Calvin Chih-shien Yeh
(Director, Training Dept.), Mr. Charles Yang (Chairman, Technical Dept.), Mr. Howard Tsai (Director,
International Affairs), Ms. Aki Huang (Assistant Director, Administration) and Mr. George Yeh
(Assistant Director, Game Dept.) was warmly welcomed by the EC.

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