The bimonthly magazine "NEAR News" July & August  2011 (No. 40) is available in six languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Russian and English) at the NEAR Homepage (Click "NewsLetter").

This issue contains the following topic: Decisions of the 8th NEAR Working Committee in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China; Interview with Tetsuro Fujitsuka, Director of the Secretariat of APN (Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research); "NEAR Member Tour" to Hubei Province, China and many others.

Contributions and any kind of creative ideas for the Newsletter are welcome.