Oberndorf off to Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, etc. etc.

Al Oberndorf, irrepressible Business
Management instructor, whose last
appearance in the Informer was in a photo
taken on the Great Wall of China, is off
to Southeast Asia again. Oberndorf leaves
on July 12 for Hong Kong, Bangkok, Kuala
Lumpur, Singapore, Manilla, Brunei,

Djarkarta, and, finally, China.

During his first three months in Asia
Oberndorf will be working on two separate
projects. The first, a needs assessment
for training of entrepreneurs, is a three
week assignment for CIDA. Following that
he will be working on the CANASEAN project,
a program funded by the provincial
government (through the "Excellence" fund),
which he has been involved with for some
time. The purpose of this project is to
set up a training program between B.C. and
the ASEAN nations (Malaysia, Thailand,
Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, and
Brunei) where businesspeople can get a
thorough knowledge of international
business opportunities in the Pacific Rim.

CHINESE STUDENTS AT CAP

While one small piece of North Vancouver
will be visiting in China, Cap College has
two representatives of China right here in

North Van. Two Chinese students are
enrolled in the Business Management ten
month accelerated program which started

last week. The two women, Qi Lou and Gang

Zhoun, will be here studying through the

fall and spring semester. They are not,
however, our first Chinese students--Helen
Zheng was sponsored by Frances Brownell
last year and took. academic courses in the
fall and spring.

We welcome Qi Lou and Gang Zhoun to
Capilano and hope that they will enjoy
their stay.

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Assuming that he survives those first
three months, during which he visits al]
the ASEAN nations twice (Oberndorf says
that his travel agent estimates that those
trips will total around 40,000 kilometers),
Oberndorf will be off to China to teach
once again at the Canada/China Enterprise
Management Training Centre in Shengdu
where he taught for four months last

summer. He will be thre all fall,
returning to Cap in time for the Spring
semester.

Although he is looking forward to going
back to Shengdu, Oberndorf admits to
viewing his upcoming trip with some
trepidation. "It will be a lot of work to
do three different projects in such a
short period," he said. Although he plans
to take a couple of days to visit Panang,
there is not much time for vacation in his
schedule, so he may even find returning to
Cap to be a relatively restful experience!

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