POSITION AVAILABLE AT AIT
Wanted: Computer Programmer

Asst. Prof. Dongjoo Park, a faculty member of the Transportation and
Infrastructure Program, School of Civil Engineering, is in need of a Computer
Programmer to assist in the project, 'Development of Dynamic Route Guidance
System for Intelligent Transportation Systems'.

He/she will be responsible for the development of a Windows program
applying algorithms for vehicle route guidance systems using programming
language (e.g. Java, Visual Basic). Employment will initially be for six
months, from 16 October 2000 to 15 April 2001. (The contract maybe extended
for another six months).

Interested persons must have a good knowledge of/experience in window
programming.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Election of the New Board Chairman

It is with pride and pleasure that I wish to inform the AIT community that the Board of Trustees
of the Asian Institute of Technology has elected among its members H.E. Mr. Anand
Panyarachun to be its next Chairman, in replacement of the late M L Birabhongse Kasemsri,
former Principal Private Secretary to His Majesty the King of Thailand.

Newly-elected BMA Governor Mr. Samak Sundaravej to lecture at AIT

Mr. Samak Sundaravej, newly elected Governor of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), will address infrastructure issues pertaining to the sustainable development of Bangkok as a major metropolis with over 6 million people, at a lecture to be held on Wednesday, 20 Sept.