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Venue:    The Miracle Grand Hotel and the Asian Institute of Technology    Bangkok, ThailandDate:    8-10 September 2008Overview:This symposium/workshop will provide valuable lessons on organic farming policy. Participating country representatives have been tapped to share organic experiences including the successes and constraints of organic farming.

The Asian Institute of Technology acknowledges Dr. Poompat
Saengudomlert, an Assistant
Professorof Telecommunications (TC) Field of Study,
School of Engineering and Technology (SET), for his accomplishment in
translating a book  “A Brief History of Communications” into Thai
version.

Hope Not Complacency – Disaster Management in India and Sri
Lanka
Asian Institute of Technology, pp. 129
By Dr. Mokbul Morshed Ahmad and Arvind Kumar

Disasters are the first and foremost major threats to development,
specifically to the uplifting of the poorest and vulnerable people in
the world.

The
Government of France has extended a financial grant totaling 379,000
Euros to the Asian Institute of Technology. The financial pledge for
this year was officially presented to the Institute on August 21 by Mr.
Hervé d'Oriano, Regional Counselor for Health at the French Embassy in
Thailand, who personally visited the campus to deliver the
grant.

“Towards
environmental and socio economic sustainability:  A vital role for
AIT”

“AIT, with its broad global reach and a clear mandate for
research and education relevant to the needs of society, can and should
play a pivotal role in effecting the changes that are required to
correct some very troubling global trends.

For the first time in its history, last month AIT participated in an
educational exhibition in Iran to promote the institute to the many
prospective students existing in the large central Asian country. At
the Thailand Trade Exhibition held in Tehran from 10 to 13 August 2008,
the Institute joined Chulalongkorn University and the Asian University
of Science and Technology (AUST) in a common booth for promotional
purposes.

The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) has recently been making
concerted efforts to connect with Africa in terms of higher education.
This week H.E. Mr. Umaru Azores Suleiman (below
right),  Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to
Thailand, accompanied by Mr. Abubakar Ramat Salihu,
Second Secretary Embassy of Nigeria, visited AIT to discuss
possibilities for partnership in joint research projects, capacity
building and poverty alleviation, all of which could lead to more
students from Nigerian coming to Thailand.

On 20 August 2008, Professor Said Irandoust, President of the Asian
Institute of Technology (AIT), along with Professor Vilas Wuwongse,
Vice President for External Relations, and Acting Director of the
AIT  Center in Vietnam (AITCV), met with
high-ranking officials of the
Ministry of Education and Training (MOET), and Ministry of Foreign
Affairs (MOFA) Vietnam.

The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) has signed a Memorandum of
Agreement (MoA) with Vietnam's University of Agriculture (HUA) and Hue
University of Agriculture and Forestry (HUAF) for a two-phased
collaboration intended to assist the development of a curriculum for
the establishment of a new master's program in integrated natural 
resources management.

The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) recently
signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with
India’s GIS Development (GISD) during the Map
Asia 2008 conference which was held from 17-18 August
2008 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

AIT President Prof.