Malaysia

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14 Aug 2015
The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
Professor Peter Leggat AM from James Cook University, Australia, partners with The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) in the area of geospatial technologies used by public health sector in disaster management.
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12 Aug 2015
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
A community programme initiated by researchers in Malaysia aims to increase livestock in a rural area as well as producing income for goat breeders by equipping them with expert knowledge through training.
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07 Aug 2015
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
Using palm oil and Rutaceae herb, researchers at University of Putra Malaysia (UPM) have developed cooking oil that can be used 80 times.
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31 Jul 2015
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Centre for Collaborative Innovation (CCI)-UKM
Some twenty students of the National University of Malaysia (UKM) spent a week at a primary school in Cambodia interacting and teaching pupils of the Cham ethnic minority.
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24 Jul 2015
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Centre for Collaborative Innovation (CCI)-UKM
Academics should investigate the phenomenon of road accidents rising from year to year despite the many safety campaigns.
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23 Jul 2015
The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
By modifying the infrared flash on automatic camera traps and forcing them into ‘night mode’ a team of wildlife experts has revealed the black leopard’s spots.
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14 Jul 2015
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Centre for Collaborative Innovation (CCI)-UKM
The National University of Malaysia (UKM) and the Standard Chartered Foundation will continue working together to improve the level of knowledge and awareness of Autism.
14 Jul 2015
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
Universiti Putra Malaysia Professor Ir Dr Mohd Sapuan Salit has become the first Malaysian engineer to have been elected as Fellow of the United States’ Society of Automotive Engineers International.
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14 Jul 2015
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
Migrant workers are more likely to report musculoskeletal pain when exposed to dust and unreliable equipment, say Malaysian researchers.
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09 Jul 2015
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
Garlic extract may be an effective weapon against multi-drug resistant strains of pathogenic bacteria associated with urinary tract infections (UTI), according to a recent study published in the Pertanika Journal of Tropical Agricultural Science.
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07 Jul 2015
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
Researchers in Malaysia have found that the peel of langsat fruit contains antioxidant compounds that could be used to develop nutraceuticals.
07 Jul 2015
University of Malaya
Associate Professor Dr Victor Hoe of the University of Malaya, Malaysia, has won one of the two ILO Master Fellowships for the Occupational Safety and Health course at the ILO Turin School of Development, University of Turin, Italy.
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02 Jul 2015
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Centre for Collaborative Innovation (CCI)-UKM
The Bank Rakyat Foundation (BRF) intends to showcase sustainable development on an island at peninsular Malaysia’s east coast with the expertise of The National University of Malaysia (UKM).
01 Jul 2015
The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
In a recent panel discussion featuring key leaders in the financial services sector, one of the topics focussed on the financial services sector in search of managers with new skill sets to adapt to the changing industry.
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30 Jun 2015
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
Commuter families normally consist of dual-career marriages that choose to establish separate homes to fulfill their career commitments.
29 Jun 2015
The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) won numerous awards at the recentInvention, Innovation & Design Exposition (iidex 015), an annual International Exhibition and Competition organised by Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM).
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25 Jun 2015
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
Malaysian scientists recommend ways for sustainable tilapia farming, an important resource for the country’s freshwater fish needs.
24 Jun 2015
University of Malaya
University of Malaya Student won the Best Poster Award at the 8th ACCMS conference at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST), Taipei, Taiwan from June 16-18 2015
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23 Jun 2015
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
Researchers in Malaysia are recommending an assessment tool for measuring whether university graduates have the practical skills required to enter the work force.
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19 Jun 2015
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
Human activity is affecting the population of Asian horseshoe crabs in the state of Sabah in Malaysia, possibly by disrupting the male to female ratio – that is the conclusion of a study that surveyed two populations of Mangrove horseshoe crab (Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda) and studied their mating behaviour.
Sago palm
17 Jun 2015
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
Waste material generated by Malaysia’s sago palm industry has potential for use as an adsorbent for cleaning up oil spills, according to a study published in the Pertanika Journal of Science and Technology.
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05 Jun 2015
University of Malaya
University Malaya researchers have developed a non-invasive, radiation-free, early stage detection system called the Knee Sound Detector to determine the seriousness of the knee joint condition for osteoarthritis patients. The system is based on sound recordings on the subject’s knee.
04 Jun 2015
University of Malaya
In their Nature paper, UM Visiting Research Fellow Dr. Jyothsna Rani Komaragiri and PhD student Md Adli Md Ali report the first observation of the very rare decay of the B0s particle into two muon particles.
Gordon Hobday
03 Jun 2015
The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
Sir Gordon Ivan Hobday, a leading British scientist and former Chancellor and graduate of the University of Nottingham, has died aged 99.
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02 Jun 2015
Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
Researchers at Universiti Teknologi MARA in Malaysia have succeeded in using ionised gas in a common fluorescent light tube as an antenna for a Wi-Fi Internet router.
29 May 2015
University of Malaya
The Chemical Abstract Services (CAS) has announced that Ms Subathra Sinniah, a Ph.D student at the University of Malaya, is one of the 2015 SciFinder Future Leaders in Chemistry.
29 May 2015
University of Malaya
Researchers in Malaysia are asking whether existing legal and regulatory frameworks in South-East Asia are robust enough to consider the safety issues surrounding the technology.
29 May 2015
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
Researchers in South-East Asia are studying how tourism policy and local community involvement impact the tourism industry.
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28 May 2015
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
Researchers in Malaysia and Iran have developed a simple diagnostic test to quickly and reliably detect tuberculosis in humans.

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Giants in history

Malaysia’s first astrophysicist, Mazlan binti Othman (born 11 December 1951) was instrumental in launching the country’s first microsatellite, and in sending Malaysia’s first astronaut, Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, into space.
Susan Lim (14 February 1952 – 2 August 2014) was a Malaysian parasitologist who specialized in studying a class of flatworms, the Monogeans, which are parasites of fishes.
Ali
Little is known about Ali, a teenager from Sarawak, Malaysia, who was chief assistant to the famous naturalist Alfred Wallace. Most of what is known comes from Wallace’s writings. Ali accompanied Wallace on expeditions throughout the Malay Archipelago from December 1855 to February 1862.
Wu Lien-teh (10 March 1879 – 21 January 1960) was a Malaysian-born doctor who invented a mask that effectively suppressed disease transmission. Winning the prestigious Queen’s Scholarship enabled Wu to become the first Chinese student to study medicine at the University of Cambridge.
Known as Mr. Natural Rubber, chemist and researcher B. C. Shekhar (17 November 1929 – 6 September 2006) introduced a number of technical innovations that helped put Malaysia’s natural rubber industry on the world map.
Lim Boo Liat (21 August 1926 – 11 July 2020), a leading authority in the conservation of Malaysia’s biological diversity, had his initial interest in the outdoors piqued by nature lessons in school. Lim, who helped found the National Zoo of Malaysia and re-establish the Malaysian Nature Society, had a particular interest in researching zoonotic diseases associated with small animals.