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- 1 2 3 4 5 Official Bulletin of Information, Asian Institute for Distance Education, 2006.
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- ↑ "Annual Conference of the Asian Association of Open Universities. 25-27 October 2000". Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 11 May 2007.