Congratulations to  Prof. Fujita and Dr. Khai! Best regards. Prof. Mai Trong Nhuan VNU HN  Sent from Samsung Mobile <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: HONDA Kiyoshi <honda@ait.ac.th> </div><div>Date:08/11/2014 19:07 (GMT+07:00) </div><div>To: Symposium Mailing List <gisideas@gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> </div><div>Cc: JVGC <jvgc@gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> </div><div>Subject: Re: [Gisideas] Honor for GIS-IDEAS Conference Founders </div><div> </div>Congratulations to Dr. Khai and Prof. Fujita Sincerely, Kiyoshi HONDA Chubu University, Japan On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Venkatesh Raghavan <raghavan@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> wrote: Dear All, It is my great pleasure to inform that Prof. Takashi Fujita, co-founder of the GIS-IDEAS Conference [1] has been awarded the "Order of the Sacred Treasure" [2] by the Japanese government in autumn 2014. It a very happy coincidence that the award comes in the same year (2014 ) when the other co-founder Dr. Nghiem Vu Khai was bestowed with the Order of the "Order of the Rising Sun" [3] by the Japan Government earlier in 2014. Hearty Congratulation to Prof. Fujita and Dr. Khai!! Best Venka ----------- Prof. Venkatesh Raghavan Osaka City University, Japan [1] http://www.gisideas.net/ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Sacred_Treasure [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Rising_Sun _______________________________________________ GISIDEAS mailing list GISIDEAS@gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gisideas