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MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 29 JANUARY 1997 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 24 MARCH 2005 AND 05 JULY 2007
Charitable objects
TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN AN ASIAN INSTITUTE THE AIMS WHEREOF SHALL BE TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN 1. THE KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE PEOPLES AND COUNTRIES OF THE CONTINENT OF ASIA AND OF THEIR PAST AND PRESENT SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND 2. THE APPRECIATION OF ASIAN CULTURES ARTS PHILOSOPHY AND HISTORY; AND FOR THIS PURPOSE "ASIA" SHALL MEAN THOSE REGIONS OF THE WORLD WHICH ON THE FIRST DAY OF NOVEMBER ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY SIX WERE BORDERED ON THE NORTH BY THE U.S.S.R. BUT INCLUDING SOVIET CENTRAL ASIA AND MONGOLIA ON THE WEST BY THE CASPIAN BLACK AND MEDITERRANEAN SEAS THE RIVER NILE AND THE RED SEA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN ON THE SOUTH BY THE INDIAN OCEAN EXTENDING THROUGH TO THE TIMOR AND ARAFURA SEAS TO THE NORTH OF AUSTRALIA AND ON THE EAST BY THE PACIFIC OCEAN THEREBY INCLUDING MIDDLE AND NEAR EASTERN COUNTRIES FROM TURKEY TO THE ARABIAN PENINSULA THE INDIAN SUB-CONTINENT AND ADJOINING COUNTRIES THE MALAY PENINSULA INDONESIA AND THE PHILIPPINES SOUTH-EAST ASIA CHINA KOREA AND JAPAN AND THE ISLANDS OF THE CHINA SEA THE PACIFIC OCEAN AND THE INDIAN OCEAN WHICH EITHER CULTURALLY OR GEOGRAPHICALLY RELATE TO THE ASIAN MAINLAND SUCH AS THE MALDIVES IN THE INDIAN OCEAN AND THE RYUKYU ISLANDS IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN; AND "ASIAN" SHALL BE GIVEN A CORRESPONDING MEANING.
Area of benefit
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