The Asian English Olympic 2018 was held at Binus University, Jakarta, Indonesia from February 8 to 12, 2018. It is one of the biggest cultural events in Asia where delegates from almost all the Asian countries participated. On behalf of American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB), Mr. Ishtiaque Ahmed Badhan (ID# 17-35028-2) from the Bachelor of Business Administration program participated in this competition. There were eight types of events and "Speech Event" was one of the events, where he participated. A total number of 800 contestants participated in the respective event.

In the preliminary Round One, the participant had to set a speech and moving to the second round, he had to undergo "Impromptu Speech" and project his ‘Extempore Speech'. Moving into the subsequent rounds where he had ended up being an "Octo-finalist" and had to speak on a table topic.

The participant has also been selected as the Ambassador of Asian English Olympic 2018 for the five countries: Bangladesh, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines and Macao. It was a great privilege and honor for the participant to represent AIUB in front of other participants and jury members from other Asian countries and represent the University on an international platform.