Dr. A A Ziauddin Ahmad, of the Department of Mathematics & Natural Science, BU visited AIT, Bangkok, Thailand on September 5, 2002 and had very fruitful discussion with Professor Mario T Tabucanon, Provost of AIT regarding respective programs of BU and AIT. They also discussed the possible future cooperation between BU and AIT. Professor Tabucanon informed that in the future some of BU graduates could be offered scholarships by AIT to pursue postgraduate studies at AIT in the relevant fields. Later Dr. Ziauddin had meetings with Professor Chongrak Polprasert, Dean, School of Environment, Resources and Development and Dr. Jayant K Routray, Program Coordinator, Rural Development, Gender and Resources. Both of them emphasized the need for establishing and strengthening of linkage programs between AIT and BU. Dr. Ziauddin also visited the Asian Center for Research on Remote Sensing, Space Technology Applications and Research Program and had meeting with Dr. Koki Iwao of the Center.