SPORTS BULLETIN REPORT
Rome (Italy):-Asian Sports Journalists Federation (ASJF) has elected unopposed South Korea's Hee Don Jung and Amjad Aziz Malik its president and secretary respectively for next four-year term. Amjad Aziz became the only Asian journalist, who got this slot back-to-back for third time.
ASJF meeting held Rome the capital city of Italy, as 23 representatives of Asian member countries participated in the meeting out of 30 nations.
There was a contest for the presidency between South Korea's Hee Don Jung and Malaysia's Ahmad Khwari Isa, but the Malaysian candidate withdrew from the South Korean candidate, after which Hee Dong Jung was elected president unopposed.
Saudi Arabia's Adel Al Zahrani was elected First Vice President by the House. After two candidates withdrew their nominations, the election of five vice-presidents was also unopposed. Among those elected are Mubarak Al-Boainin of Qatar, Khalil Haider of Kuwait, Ahmad Khawari Isa of Malaysia, Sabanayakan of India and Meisam Zamanabadi of Iran .
No other candidate has submitted nomination papers for the post of Secretary General, Amjad Aziz Malik of Pakistan, so he became the Secretary of AIPS ASIA for the third time.
He is the first Pakistani and Asian journalist to be elected for the third consecutive time. Niranjan Rajbansi of Nepal was elected as treasurer after Sato of Mongolia withdrew his nomination for the post of treasurer.
Candidates from 15 countries had submitted nominations for eight seats in the Executive Committee, but after seven countries withdrew their papers, the officials who were declared elected include Hiroki Shoda of Japan, Sanat Babla of Bangladesh, Safwan Abu Shanab of Palestine,Oman's Ahmed Saif Al Kaabi, Macau's Nim Seong Fong, Chinese Taipei's Helen Chi, Yemen's Abdulsalam Hamoud Ali Saud and Kazakhstan's Ilyas Omarov.
President Hee Don Jung said:
“All resources will be utilized for the development of sports journalism in Asia. National sports journalist organizations of Asian countries should organize annual events regularly and focus on training young sports journalists”.
