The International Symposium on Language and Linguistics is organized once every four years in Thailand. The last symposium hosted by Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 1992 had as its theme "Pan-Asiatic Linguistics". For the upcoming fourth symposium which will be hosted by the Institute of Language and Culture for Rural Development, Mahidol University, January 8-10, 1996, we plan to continue the theme of "Pan-Asiatic Linguistics". The symposium will bring together scholars interested in linguistic studies from Japan to the Middle East, and from Siberia to Indonesia; all are wellcome.