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76 deaf students in Thailand have been trained in Graphic Design skills and have been empowered to extend their knowledge and use of language without being bounded to the spoken word.

In recognizing the major challenges and barriers to promoting disability-inclusive economic and social development, CCDKM organized and delivered a series of trainings on ICT for Business and Knowledge Management for disabled people in six provinces in Thailand.

Singapore, 3 June – A*STAR has inked a Master Research Collaboration Agreement (MRCA) with Japan’s IHI Corporation, which will allow the development of efficient and innovative solutions to benefit the chemical, infocomm and media, manufacturing and biomedical industries in Singapore and across Asia.

The 2nd International Symposium on Transformative Bio-Molecules 2014 is an annual event held by ITbM, inviting prestigious speakers from around the world to enhance interdisciplinary research between synthetic chemistry and animal/plant biology.

The University Malaya led team revealed high levels of previously undiagnosed active TB especially amongst HIV infected prisoners.

Singapore, 28 May - SIMTech has pioneered an evaluation, comparison and validation method to produce deep, straight holes in a variety of materials for downhole drill pipes, to enable oil and gas exploration venture into greater depths and harsher environments.

Researchers at ITbM developed a new nickel catalyst with a “Kabuto-like” structure that catalyzed the cross-coupling reaction between carbonyl compounds and readily available phenol derivatives, to form α-arylketones, which are found in many biologically active compounds.

(Tokyo, 27 May 2014) Tokyo Tech scientists and colleagues in Switzerland develop an innovative new model to aid the analysis of financial markets uses the laws of molecular fluid dynamics to describe order-book transactions.

Team Genesis of the University of Malaya, Malaysia will receive two VI-Motorsport licenses worth RM12 000.00 and a 1-day VI-DriveSim session at VI-grade’s SimCenter in Udine, Italy.

The main advantages of EF-Healing-Pesticide are two folds. First, it overcomes toxicity to humans and pollution problem found in existing pesticides. Thus, this product has no pesticide disposal problem. Second, its residues on food display some healing properties.

As an outcome from the continuous hybrid renewable energy research, an innovative outdoor lighting system powered by a shroud-augmented wind turbine and a solar panel was installed in the Kuala Lumpur campus of University of Malaya (UM).

Dr Louisa Ponnampalam is the first Malaysian to win the prestigious 2014 Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation, which aims to provide outstanding individuals the opportunity to make a difference for marine conservation. This grand achievement, along with her other efforts, earned her this year's National Youth Premier Award (Special Category).

This month, the Telecentre Women: Digital Literacy Campaign – launched by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and the telecentre.org Foundation – reached its goal by training a total of 1,014,096 disadvantaged women in basic digital literacy skills.

LION Corporation, one of Japan’s largest multinational companies will be working with A*STAR’s Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) to develop safer, anti-odour and anti-bacteria household products that eliminate the use of harmful biocides.

Singapore, 21 May - A*STAR SIMTech and NUS Faculty of Engineering have launched two joint labs in Natural Fibre Composites and Large Format Machining to boost R&D in manufacturing and support the local industry needs. New scholarships are being provided to develop talent for these labs.

More than 70 participants from the Technical University Malaysia and the University of Malaya Power Energy Dedicated Advanced Centre attended the all-day symposium, whose theme was “Sustainable Renewable Energy Development for the Future.”

Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have increased the energy efficiency of a piezoelectric nanogenerator by almost 40 times, one step closer toward the commercialization of flexible energy harvesters that can supply power infinitely to wearable, implantable electronic devices.

Sir Richard “Rich” John Roberts is a British biochemist and molecular biologist. He was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Phillip Allen Sharp for the discovery of introns in eukaryotic DNA and the mechanism of gene-splicing. He currently works at New England Biolabs, USA.

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and The Hong Kong Academy of Orthokeratology jointly held a press briefing on 6 May to announce results of the studies on the effectiveness in controlling the progression of myopia, that the orthokeratology (Ortho-K) could slow down myopic progression by about 60% in school children.

A first year Environmental Science student at The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) has had a literature review of the Southeast Asian monsoon published in the academic journal Geoscience Frontiers.

Daejeon, Republic of Korea, May 13, 2014 – Global learners can now take premier engineering courses offered by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) through one of the leading online education providers, Coursera.

Researchers at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University have developed a ground-breaking filter technology that guards against the finest pollutants in the air.

The parts neatly laid out on the table are ready to be assembled to become a portable nuclear imaging diagnostic camera to detect breast cancer.

New catalysts to remove oxygenated compounds from bio-derived oils may lead to better and cheaper renewable biofuels

The use of a fabrication technique borrowed from the semiconductor industry brings metamaterial applications a step closer to reality

Newly detected ‘energy-clustering’ structures inside rare-earth nanoparticles generate intense violet light, which is ideal for studying photon-induced transformations

A robust micrometer-scale structure for trapping light enhances optical interactions in advanced photonic devices

Synthetic biology itself is defined as the deliberate design and construction of customised biological and biochemical systems to perform new or improved functions. It draws on a wide range of disciplines and methodologies to design molecules, construct genetic circuits and assemble simple organisms.

(Kanazawa, Japan, 8 May 2014) Levels of interferon-stimulated genes in the liver and blood could help predict if a patient with hepatitis C will respond to conventional therapy, researchers at Kanazawa University suggest.

Yutaka Ukaji and colleagues at Kanazawa University have now developed a method for desymmetrising compounds to produce new chiral molecules. The process allows 99% selectivity in the chemicals produced.