The final version of the AIT Charter, which was earlier approved by the AIT Board of Trustees, has been officially submitted by Dr. Tej Bunnag, Chairman of the Board, to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Thailand. AIT President Said Irandoust, on behalf of AIT, expresses appreciation and gratitude to all AIT partners for their continued and strong support to the Institute, and to AIT Board Chairman, for the instrumental role he has played in the entire process.

The AIT Alumni Association (AITAA), Thailand Chapter, has expressed interest in providing some financial contribution for the renovation of the AIT Library. Through this contribution the Thai Chapter wishes to express its gratitude to the Institute, and the AIT Library in particular, which served as an important resource during their students days at AIT. Professor Tawatchai Tingsanchali, Chair of the AIT Library Committee, has been in contact with Dr. Anusorn Sangnimnuan (EV'80), President of the AITAA Thailand Chapter President, who is also the President of the Bangchak Petroleum Public Co. Ltd.

At the request of the AIT President, Dr. Manukid Parnichkun, a faculty member from the Mechatronics field of study, School of Engineering and Technology, recently travelled to Sweden and visited Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) on 13-14 September 2007, to explore areas in which there could be collaboration.

On 24 September 2007, President Said Irandoust met with Mr. Ajai Randhawa, who is associated with the Mountbatten Internship Programme (http://www.mountbatten.org). The organization is in the process of starting an MBA program, which will run concurrently with its 1-year internship in UK/UK, followed by 4 months in Thailand.

On 28 September 2007, AIT President Said Irandoust met with Professor Jetze Huen, Director of the Partnership for Water Education and Research (POWER), who was visiting AIT at the invitation of Vice President for Development & Resources Khin Ni Ni Thein.

On 1 October 2007, AIT President Said Irandoust participated in the opening ceremony of a training program entitled "Capacity Building in Poverty Mapping in the ASEAN Member Countries", which was organized and conducted by the Geoinformatics Center.

AIT will be formally transferring the administration and management of the ".th" domain name to the Thai Network Information Center Foundation. The .th domain was first registered in 1988 by AIT faculty member Professor Kanchana Kanchanasut, who is also the Director of intERLab.

Recently, AIT President Said Irandoust took part in receptions celebrating the 47th Independence Anniversary of Nigeria, National Foundation Day of Korea, and the German Unity Day on 1, 2 and 3 October 2007, respectively. According to the President, such occasions are always important, since it not only provides an excellent opportunity to meet and interact with many of the Institute's partners, but also to brief them on some of our ongoing activities and initiatives

Through the invitation of the Minister of Urban Development and Sacred Areas Development of Sri Lanka, Vice President Khin Ni Ni Thien visited Sri Lanka from 25-30 August 2007. The vice president had an opportunity to have an audience with the President and the First Lady and exchanged goodwill gifts with the Prime Minister.

AIT is proud to announce that Lecture No. 4 of its ongoing AIT Prominent Alumni Lecture Series, which is jointly organized by the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) and the AIT Alumni Association (AITAA), will be held on Friday, 19 October 2007, at the Milton E. Bender Jr. Auditorium.