The Vice Chancellor, Prof. J. R. Choudhury, visited Malaysia and Singapore from 26th July to 2nd August as leader of a 13-member Bangladeshi delegation. The team, which included 9 teachers from BUET and 4 officials of Government of Bangladesh, is involved with the formulation of the HighTech Park Project at Kaliakoir, about 40 km from Dhaka city. They visited similar projects in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore and carried out discussions with officials from the relevant government agencies and private firms involved in the projects. This included Technology Park Malaysia, Multimedia Development Corporation at Cyberjaya (responsible for Multimedia Super Corridor at KL), Multimedia University at Cyberjaya, Ascendas (responsible for Singapore Science Parks and HighTech Parks in different countries of the region), Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (closely involved in developing International Technology Park at Bangalore, India), SingTel and Hewlett Packard Asia Pacific Headquarters.