We got to be at Bangkok...together!

Here's a passionate appeal from PDG Kawal Bedi, Chairperson of District 3080 Bangkok Convention Promotion Committee.  Let's register and get your tickets booked before it is too late.  This is one of a life-time opportunity to have a RI Convention so close to home, with less than 5 hour flight and one of the lowest registration fee ever.

Bangkok would be a lifetime experience

There is no reason why we should not be there at Bangkok. This would indeed be a lifetime experience for every Rotarian to feel and experience the internationality of Rotary.
Here's our very own IPDG Madhukar Malhotra, who invites to be a part of the Indian contingent to Bangkok for the RI Convention on May 6-9, 2011. Please register if you have not done so already.

Why is Bangkok so exciting for Rotarians this year?

Check this out with PDG Shaju Peter. And of course, do not go alone. Its got to be a family outing.

City of Bangkok beckons you.

Hope you have registered yourself for Rotary International Convention at Bangkok with your family.  Here's a peep into this amazing city.


Discover Bangkok from Rotary Thailand on Vimeo.

Why you should be in Bangkok in May 2012?

Rotary International Director Yash Das shares his views and lists out the 4 most pressing reasons for all Rotarians in India especially, to be there in Bangkok for the RI Convention, 6-9 May 2012.

I'm going to be there. Will you be?

Friends it is time that you get yourself registered for the Rotary International Convention to be held at Bangkok in May 2012.
There are many reasons to be Bangkok in 2012 for the RI Convention. The first, and perhaps the only reason is to express our solidarity with our Rotary leader Kalyan Banerjee with massive presence at Bangkok.
Please get in touch with Club President for more details.
Here's a message from RI President.

"You and I are created for goodness"

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu says, ‘You and I are created for goodness’ during his keynote address Thursday, 18 June, at the Rotary World Peace Symposium as a part of the RI Birmingham Convention.
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu said Rotary's dedication to peace in the world makes God smile.
He said how he envisions God looking down on His creation and crying when He sees all the bad things His children are doing to each other. But, Tutu said, then God looks again and sees Rotary. Rotary's dedication to peace in the world makes God smile.
More on RI Convention Update

Arnab Goswami, chief editor of India's English-news network Times Now, which broadcast three days of live coverage of the November 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, used the incident as a case history of how media coverage shapes government response. Goswami said that in India and Pakistan, pressure from the media influenced how both countries' governments handled the crisis.
Goswami advocated a global perspective for the decision makers in the media. "The attacks weren't just an Indian story. When we look at conflict, we often look at it as someone else's conflict," he said.

Past RI President Rajendra K. Saboo encouraged attendees to forge stronger ties with the media to help get the good news out about Rotary's contributions. In addition, he suggested that media professionals apply to the certificate program at Chulalongkorn University, home to one of the Rotary Centers for International Studies in peace and conflict resolution. The program has already trained five journalists and several other professionals who regularly work with the media in peace and conflict resolution.

Accountability and telling it like it is are critical components of building peace, said Jan Egeland, director of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. Egeland was the UN secretary-general's special adviser for conflict prevention and resolution from 2006 to 2008.