Dear ACHR friends,  
If you've been feeling our communications from ACHR have become a little sparse, here's a corrective:  a big, fat and long-overdue ACHR E-News bulletin, full of stories about what's going on in the network and what kind of new projects we're all working on together:

• Saving Tibetan buildings and artisanship in Leh, India
• World Habitat Day celebrations stretch into the months in Thailand
• Canal-side community breakthroughs in Thailand and Indonesia
• News from the Asian Community Architects Network (CAN)
• ACHR makes a splash at the seventh Asia Pacific Urban Forum in Penang
• 2 New ACHR regional projects:  5 Model Cities + Collective Housing in Asia
• Updates on two ACHR research projects:  KNOW study + Food Security Study
• Community Development Funds are still active in 8 cities in Vietnam
• UCLG Global Report on Housing Policies is out
• Bad times for street vendors in several Asian countries

 
Please have a look and send us your comments and additions.  And as always, please do keep us in the loop about your own projects and initiatives.  The new e-news bulletin can be downloaded from the "ACHR E-news Bulliten" set under the "Library" tab.
    
And all good wishes and happy holidays from the team at the ACHR secretariat in Bangkok: 
  - Tom, Somsook, Minh Chau, Brenda, Natvipa, Chai and Pi Moi.