Announcement

Professor Naehyuck Chang of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology chosen among the new 42 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery, the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society.

A Walnut Tree, a documentary by Pakistani filmmaker Ammar Aziz, has won the Ram Bahadur Trophy for best film at the Film Southasia documentary festival, held in Kathmandu, Nepal, from November 19 to 22, 2015.

Canada's International Development Research Centre’s 2014-2015 annual report is now available online.

Initiated in 1982, the collaboration between The French National Centre for Scientific Research and University of Malaya led to the creation of a joint laboratory called Laboratoire International Associé.

PARIS, December 4, 2015 – Jean Lebel, President of Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), today announced a $4 million investment to help cities in the developing world be better prepared for climate change impacts and the risks these impacts pose to people, economies, and infrastructure.

PARIS, December 3, 2015 – Jean Lebel, President of Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), along with Aron Cramer, President and CEO of Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), today announced a joint initiative to help companies protect their businesses and assets from the impacts of climate change.

Canada’s International Development Research Centre is joining the Government of Canada’s official delegation to the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has approved funding of $1.5 million for King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) to conduct scientific research towards eradicating a destructive parasitic weed in croplands throughout sub-Saharan African countries.

Associate Professor Masahiro Hiratsuka at Tohoku University, Japan, has received the 2016 Pharmaceutical Society of Japan Award for Divisional Scientific Promotions.

The Malaysian Government has awarded The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus a 5-star rating for the quality of its research and innovation, making it the highest rated international university in Malaysia.

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University joined hands with sister institutions in Hong Kong and Macau to hold the Alliance of Sino-Russian Technical Universities.

Five sets of ultrasound machine equipment as well as infrastructure development training will be provided to the The National University of Malaysia’s Medical Centre by the South Korean-based Samsung Sono School.

The champion will represent Hong Kong to attend the Global Healthcare Innovation Day at Calgary, Alberta, Canada in 2016 to compete with other champions from different parts of the world for the Innovation for Health Award of Excellence.

The Institute of Physics has responded to the Government’s spending plans as announced by George Osborne today, Wednesday 25 November, in Parliament, and detailed by the Treasury.

Professor Jackie Y. Ying, Executive Director of the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology of Agency for Science, Technology and Research in Singapore has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Researchers of The National University of Malaysia will monitor and collect data about the environment along the Strait of Johor, that separates the mainland Malaysia and Singapore.

BANGI, 18 November 2015 – The National University of Malaysia has won second prize in a competition open to university students aimed at developing innovative ideas on sustainability of the palm oil industry.

DOHA - Qatar University has signed a five-year agreement with University of Malaya, Malaysia, to renew collaboration in the field of education and research.

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University is proud to have invited Professor Lars Peter Hansen, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences 2013, to give a public lecture on “Confronting Uncertainty in a Changing Environment” on 19 November 2015.

The 5th Annual South Asian Regional Meeting of the Think Tank Initiative (TTI) will take place in Sohna, India, ​from November 18-20, 2015.

The University of Hong Kong and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University jointly announced the establishment of a foundation to be named the "Respiratory Virus Research Foundation".

Cambodia has sought the help of The National University of Malaysia (UKM) to research an archaeologist’s theory that Iron-smelting was introduced to South-East Asia in the 5th century A.D. by travelers from the Indus valley located in present-day North-West Pakistan and Afghanistan.

A recent MEng graduate of Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering from The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, won the First Prize Poster Presentation Award at the Second Asia-Oceania Sonochemical Society Conference (AOSS-2) held at Westin Hotel, Kuala Lumpur.

National platform for research imaging to study the impact of new therapies in key disease areas relevant to Singapore and the region.

Universiti Malaysia Sarawak in Malaysia in collaboration with the Sarawak Dyslexic Association and the State Education Department for the first time organised a literacy programme to assist children in mastering basic reading and writing skills in English and Bahasa Malaysia.

Join International Development Research Centre as several of these IDRC-supported global health researchers share their personal journeys and experiences as they strive to improve primary health care for mothers and children.

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) research will be showcased at the Canadian Conference on Global Health 2015, November 5-7 in Montréal, Québec. This year's theme is Capacity Building on Global Health: Research and Practice.

Dr Khor Chiea Chuen and Dr Nicolas Plachta are two of only five award recipients outside of Europe and its neighbouring countries.

A paper entitled “Impact of Burning on Physical Characteristics of Tropical Peat” by Professor Dr Ahmad Ainuddin Nuruddin and Masters student Dayang Nur Sakinah Musa picked up the best working paper at the Sixth International Wildland Fire Conference which was held between October 14 to October 16.