Technical group ASEAN Newspaper Printers has set the date for its 2019 conference, returning to Bangkok for the event.

Board member Farouq Affandi says preliminary arrangements were agreed at a working meeting and dinner attended by chairman Goh Yew Soong (Singapore Press Holdings), secretary Khairul Nizam (Star Media), technology officer Farouq Affandi (Utusan Group) and golf master KS Ng (pictured).

The event, which is the group's ninth, will return to the Intercontinental Hotel in Bangkok on September 23.

With reduced emphasis on print at other conferences and something of an interregnum at Australia's Single Width Users' Group - which has its last technical conference in 2016 - the Bangkok gettogether will be welcome across the industry.

The full committee had its first board meeting in January at the Intercontinental, followed by a dinner meeting with Thai newspaper printers and publishers.

Watch for details of the 2019 conference at https://aseanprinters.org/

Pictured: Working committee members dine after their ANP meeting