On Tuesday 21 August 2018, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pradit Wanarat, NIDA President; Assoc. Prof. Dr. Raweewan Auepanwiriyakul, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Prapon Sahapattana, Vice President for Administration, officially welcome and congratulate NIDA students who granted Huayu Enrichment Scholarship (HES) 2018. Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Thailand offered scholarship for students to go to study Mandarin Chinese at Chinese Language Center in any university in Republic of China (Taiwan) for three months. There are two NIDA students who received the scholarship this year; (1) Mr. Klanarong Maniam, School of Development Economics, who will go to Chung Yuan Christian University in this September, and (2) M.L. Katika Suksawat, School of Public Administration, who will go to National Chengchi University in March 2019.