PENSA Newsletter May -August 2007, Vol.8 No.2 Message From Editor Dear PENSA members: We have to apologize for the late releasing of this issue. We are looking forward to attend the 12 th PENSA Congress in Manila . Hope that all of you will join us there. Before the 2-day congress, there will be the TNT workshop where ones who are interesting in basic clinical nutrition can attend. If you are interesting, please visit our website www.pensa2007.org or online submission through philspen_sec@yahoo.com In this newsletter, there are 2 papers presented in the 11 th PENSA Congress at Seoul, Korea. The first one is “Reimbursement policy of nutritional support in Taiwan” by Professor Tsann-Long Hwang. The second is “Correlation between nutritional parameters commonly used for nutritional screening” by Dr. Koyama Yu, and his team. These 2 papers will give you some idea about nutritional practices in our Asian countries.