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1 ANPhA/AAPPS-DNP activities and some news from the Asia Pacific nuclear physics community The Asian Nuclear Physics Association (ANPhA) was established in 2008. It represents nuclear physics in the Asia Pacific region. It also plays a role as the Division of Nuclear Physics (DNP) of AAPPS. Because of COVID-19 situations, its regular activities are limited. For example, the annual board meeting scheduled in December will be organized virtually by the University of Hong Kong (HKU). From the year 2020, Prof. Weiping Liu from China served as the ANPhA chair, succeeding Prof. Tanaka from Japan, who has made great contributions to the activities. Maintenance of the ANPhA website was moved from RIKEN in Japan to CIAE in China (https://bisol.org/ anpha/index.html). The site has updated information supposed to be useful for nuclear physics researchers in the region, such as in terms of job opportunities. Despite the difficult situation caused by COVID-19, ANPhA continued to spiritually support international conferences and symposiums held in the Asia Pacific: NIC2021 conference in Chengdu, CNS Summer School 2020 organized online by CNS, SNP school 2020 in Tokai (partially online), APLAT 2020 symposium organized online by KEK, NuSYS summer school 2021 in Beijing, and APFB2020 scheduled to be held in the city of Kanazawa in 2021. Thanks to the AAPPS supports, together with the budgets collected in previous years, ANPhA/DNP awards were granted to young scientists in Asia on the occasions of some of the ANPhA-supported symposiums.