Description: Discussion of the Clearinghouse Scholarship Program, which matches low income candidates in developing countries where SOA exams are administered with potential corporate or individual sponsors.

Description: Status of the actuarial profession in Sri Lanka, challenges and initiatives developed by the Actuarial Association of Sri Lanka advance the profession.

Description: Observations on a Trip to China June 20 to July 5, 1997 by Harold G. Ingraham, Jr. from International Section News, February 1998, Issue No. 15. Includes comments by local Chinese actuaries Yu Luo, Chengfeng Shen, Hongjian Bao, and Yunyu Zheng.

Description: A discussion of the experiences of the author leading some actuarial lectures at Nankai University,Tianjin, China

Description: The first graduating class of actuarial students at Cairo University received their degrees.

Description: Puebla, Mexico Actuarial Conference Report by Jim Toole from International Section News, February 1998, Issue No. 15.

Description: The author discusses his experiences while spending four days in Kazakhstan as a lecturer for the First Actuarial School of the Kazakhstan Actuarial Society.

Description: The author describes a course he and his colleague designed and taught at Columbia University called "A Global Perspective of the Health Insurance Market."

Description: Insight into activities of Actuaries Without Borders (AWB), a section of the International Actuarial Association, and SOA involvement in the section. AWB’s mandate is to provide volunteers for projects in countries where the actuarial profession is at an early level of development.

Description: A discussion of the Asia Committee whose purposes are 1 To represent the SOA in promoting actuarial education, 2 To provide services to members in the development of educational programs, research and other support and 3 To build the image and awareness of the profession in Asia