INCREASE IN DOMESTIC REGISTER MAIL FEE

Please be informed effective Sunday, 01 Oct. that the Communications Authority of Thailand (CAT)
increases its domestic register mail fee to Bt8 from Bt4.

Seminars & Workshop @ AIT
RCC User Training Series

In order to familiarize users with RCC facilities and services, a series of user training courses has been organized. For this week the course training is as follows:

25-26 Sept. - HTML and Web Publishing

The venue is the RCC Auditorium.

Meeting the AIT President

H.E. Mr. Do Ngoc Son (right), Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to Thailand, is seen receiving a souvenir from Prof. Jean-Louis Armand, AIT President, during his official visit to AIT on 19 September.

World Habitat Day 2000: Women and Urban Governance

The Urban Management Programme (UMP)/AIT Core Group, consisting of faculty from the Urban Environmental Management (UEM) and Gender and Development (GenDev) fields of study, is sponsoring World Habitat Day in Thailand under the theme 'Women and Urban Governance.

Vietnam EMBA Launched

Nineteen managers and business professionals from Vietnamese companies have joined the International Executive MBA (EMBA) program which opened at the AIT Center in Vietnam (AITCV) on 18 September. AIT's International EMBA is being offered in Vientam for the first time.

Samak pushes for extension of BTS routes and construction of low-cost, medium-rise flats

Revealing his plans for Bangkok's infrastructure development, Mr. Samak Sundaravej, Governor of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), said that priority is being given to expanding the routes of the Bangkok Transport System (BTS) and constructing low-cost medium-rise flats.

AIT GAZETTE
Issue No. 12
19 SEPTEMBER 2000
Report of the 5 September 2000 Reform Process Committee (RPC) Meeting

A. Matters for Information

1. PEC members along with Staff and Labour Union Representatives met with Legal Advisor on 29 August 2000 to discuss issues of general concern.

Officers from the Command and General Staff College visit AIT

Sixty officers from the Command and General Staff College, the Institute of Advanced Military Studies, Royal Thai Army, recently visited the Distributed Education Center (DEC) and the Asian Center for Research and Remote Sensing, STAR Program.

Seminars & Workshop @ AIT
RCC User Training Series
In order to familiarize users with RCC facilities and services, the Center will conduct a series of user training as follows:

19-20 Sept. - E-mail and other Internet applications

21 Sept. - Remote dial-up services

22 Sept.

Wanted: Desk Officer for UMP-AIT Core Group

The UNCHS/Urban Management Programme (UMP)-AIT Core Group is urgently seeking
a Desk Officer who will assist in various outreach activities such as city
consultations and action programs in the region. The Desk Officer will
coordinate the activities engaged in by the concerned FoS (Urban Environmental
Management and Gender and Development Studies) within UMP-AIT, as well
as act as the day-to-day contact person for such activities and other related
concerns.