Main topics covered in this issue:

• New Appointments and Promotions
  
• Golf, Tennis, and Tea
  
• And More Serious Business
  
• New Chief at GAPKINDO
  
• Late Mr John Lee
  
• Corynespora Leaf Fall Disease
  
• Cassiicoline
  
• Corynespora Theme Park
  
• Visual Demonstration of Damage
  
• Personal Interaction
  
• IRSG : 39th Assembly
  
• BLIC
  
• Price Optimism
  
• Vietnam : Production Forecast
  
• Indian Planting Materials
  
• Father Mervyn Fernando
  
• Most Productive Smallholders are Unhappy
  
• Integrated Rubber Industry
  
• Tapping Knives
  
• Structure of Indian Rubber Manufacturing
  
• Michelin in Asia
  
• Russian Tyre Industry
  
• Run-Flat Tyres
  
• Matador Tyre Plant
  
• Tyre Monitoring Systems
  
• Greenpeace Mouse Mats
  
• Canadian Condom Market
  
• FDA Limits
  
• Latex Exam Glove Market To Grow
  
• SSL International
  
• Third Annual International Latex Conference
  
• Synthomer Latex Plant
  
• IRSG Survey of Planted Areas
  
• Doggett's Coat and Badge
  
• Diseases
  
• Tapping Panel Dryness
  
• Cultivation in Marginal Areas
  
• Rubberwood
  
• Molecular Engineering
  
• Downstream Research
  
• Truck Tyres
  
• Environmental Credentials
  
• Structural Bearings
  
• Blends
  
• Engine Mounts
  
• Latex Protein Allergy
  
• Green Credentials
  
• Major problems Face the Twenty First Century