The first 2017 APSTSN newsletter has now been published: see https://apstsn.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/apstsn-newsletter-1-2017-sept.pdf. It has many new features including invited featured members and their research, a policy brief on China’s AI-powered future, and research projects, as well as calls for papers, new books and other publications, and events to attend. For regular Asia-Pacific STS news, and to contribute your news via new and social media, and the APSTSN website and email service, please come to the website (apstsn.org) and join — if you are a scholar involved in any STS related research (that is, research involving science, technology and society, social studies of science and technology, history and philosophy of science, history of science,  politics of science and technology, and so on … in regard to numerous topics…).