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19 Jul 2010
Universiti Sains Malaysia
Professor Tan Sri Dato' Dzulkifli Abd Razak The writer is the Vice-Chancellor of Universiti Sains Malaysia. He can be contacted at [email protected] This article was published in 'The Edge Malaysia on 21st June 2010
16 Jul 2010
RIKEN
Poshak Gandhi writes to Kazuo Makishima, group leader of the Coordinated Space Observation and Experiment Research Group at the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute
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14 Jul 2010
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
The third Biennial Conference of the China-Europa Forum kicked off yesterday (12 July) at the Jockey Club Auditorium of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU).
12 Jul 2010
Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore
Singapore, 9 July 2010 - The Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC) announced the winners of Science Chronicles 2010 at an Awards Ceremony held in Fusionopolis on Thursday, 8 July.
12 Jul 2010
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Ottawa, July 12 – The Think Tank Initiative has selected 16 think tanks, or independent policy research institutions, in South Asia to receive a total of US$21 million to strengthen their roles as influential players in national policymaking.
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12 Jul 2010
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Mexico- DDT use was eliminated with no increase in malaria, Guatemala - Chagas disease has been addressed through improvements to house construction, Amazon - Mercury poisoning was halted, by finding alternatives to the slash and burn agriculture, Malawi - Children’s health has been improved by growing legumes instead of corn.
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12 Jul 2010
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) has opened doors to 5,103 new students through 60 courses offered for the first semester session 2010/2011 on the 3rd and 4th of July, just recently.
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12 Jul 2010
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Partners in Health (PIH), Canada’s IDRC and the I-TECH program (University of Washington), is working with the Haitian Ministry of Health to support the strengthening of Electronic Medical Records interoperability in Haiti.
12 Jul 2010
Universiti Sains Malaysia
OPINION: World Environment Day, which is celebrated every June 5, took the theme Biodiversity -- Ecosystems Management and the Green Economy this year.
12 Jul 2010
Universiti Sains Malaysia
OPINION: In a May 30 interview on a weekly public affairs show hosted by journalist and author Fareed Zakaria on CNN, Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates mentioned the need "to reorder the priorities of the innovation system" in making changes in the health­care sector.
12 Jul 2010
Universiti Sains Malaysia
OPINION: It was immensely satisfying to listen to Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad speak on a subject as tricky as "technology-based innovation"...
12 Jul 2010
Universiti Sains Malaysia
A total of 952 new students for the 2010/2011 Intake will attend the First Phase of the Universiti Sains Malaysia Pimpin Siswa Programme from 9-11 July 2010.
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12 Jul 2010
Universiti Sains Malaysia
Students’ achievement in co-curricular activities is important although in terms of weightage for university admission, it only contributes 10% compared to the 90 % for academic achievement.
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12 Jul 2010
Universiti Sains Malaysia
The registration of new students at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) for the 2010/2011 Academic Session ran smoothly and witnessed more than 4000 students registering themselves at the three USM campuses.
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05 Jul 2010
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Rethinking land management techniques to mitigate the effects of weather-related disasters
28 Jun 2010
The Asian Institute of Technology
A recent study by Thai Research Fund (TRF) on the research output of Thai universities confirms that Thailand-based Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) excels in all engineering subject areas that it offers.
28 Jun 2010
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Pakistan has achieved some economic success – mainly in agriculture and industry – despite recurring political instability since the country’s independence in 1947.
28 Jun 2010
Universiti Sains Malaysia
The Deputy Prime Minister, Tan Sri Dato’ Muhyiddin Yassin said that further investigations regarding the issue of members of the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) recruiting local teenagers and university students will be handled fully by the police. He said that he has been given to understand that a special meeting to discuss this matter will be held soon.
28 Jun 2010
Universiti Sains Malaysia
PENANG, 12 June – The 29th edition of the Royal Commissioning of the Cadet Officers of the Reserve Officers Training Unit (Palapes) in Public Institutions of Higher Learning which was held in Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) recently was described as the best so far.
28 Jun 2010
Universiti Sains Malaysia
he Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) contingent has been urged to turn the spirit of kinship among the campus community into a major weapon of strength in the 35th Malaysian Universities Staff Games (SUKUM) which will commence on 17 June 2010.
26 Jun 2010
Waseda University
On May 28, 2010, a symposium and panel discussion commemorating the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty was hosted by the US-Japan Research Institute, a US-registered NPO (The Chair: Katsuhiko Shirai, President, Waseda University) co-founded in Washington, D.C. by Waseda University and so on.
26 Jun 2010
Waseda University
The family change that Japanese aimed for was a change from the traditional family system before the war to a democratic, modern family after the war, modeled on the American family—called a nuclear family.
22 Jun 2010
Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM)
The Forest Research Institute Malaysia has recently launched its Environment Education Centre (EEC), located near the Sg. Kroh picnic area, Kepong.
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14 Jun 2010
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Nurturing research in times of turmoil is key to transforming societies
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13 Jun 2010
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
Hong Kong, 10 June - The Global Student Challenge (GSC) organized by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has come to a climax today (10 June) at its Final held on the university campus, with six finalist teams competing for the coveted award in the University Division and another six teams competing in the Secondary School Division.
04 Jun 2010
Universiti Sains Malaysia
OPINION: The Facebook-based competition, Everyone Draw Mohammed (sic) Day!, on May 20 is said to promote "freedom of expression".
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04 Jun 2010
RIKEN
On April 21, a delegation of 12 dignitaries from China visited the RIKEN Wako campus to meet with RIKEN President Ryoji Noyori and a number of RIKEN directors.
03 Jun 2010
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
Hong Kong, 3 June - More than 200 top students from all over the world will be presenting their innovative business proposals at the Semi-Final & Final rounds of the Global Student Challenge (GSC) on 7 and 10 June.
02 Jun 2010
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) today (1 June) announced the appointment of Ir Professor Alexander Wai Ping-kong, Associate Vice President and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, to the post of Vice President (Research Development).
02 Jun 2010
Universiti Sains Malaysia
OPINION - FIVE Malaysian universities were ranked among the top institutions in the 2010 QS Asian University Rankings. Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), however, were amused by the news for the simple reason that they have neither agreed to the invitation to participate nor have they submitted any data or information.

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Giants in history

Vietnamese surgeon Tôn Thất Tùng (10 May 1912 – 7 May 1982) developed a pioneering technique that reduced the risks and mortality rate of liver operations.
Michiaki Takahashi (17 February 1928 – 16 December 2013) was a Japanese virologist who developed the first chickenpox vaccine.
Maggie Lim (5 January 1913 – November 1995) was a Singaporean physician who promoted family planning and expanded the access to clinics to improve the quality of life for mothers and children in Singapore’s early days.
The founder of the Adyar Cancer Institute in India, Muthulakshmi Reddy (30 July 1886 – 22 July 1968), fought to uplift women and girls from impoverished situations.
Through her iconic stories featuring fictional scenes from the history of the Philippines, language teacher and academic Genoveva Matute (3 January 1915 – 21 March 2009) helped strengthen the Filipino identity.
Rajeshwari Chatterjee (24 January 1922 – 3 September 2010) was the first female engineer from Karnataka in India.
U Hla Myint (1920 – 2017) was a celebrated economist from Myanmar. Considered a prodigy, he was admitted to Rangoon University to study economics when he was just 14 years old. He went on to earn a Ph.D. at the London School of Economics (LSE).
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.
Indian scientist and physician Upendranath Brahmachari (19 December 1873–6 February 1946) is best known for creating a drug called Urea Stibamine, used to safely and reliably treat visceral leishmaniasis (or Kala-azar), a severe infection caused by the Leishmania parasite.
Sir Mokshagundam Srinivasa Shastry Vishveshwarayya (15 September 1860 – 14 April 1962) is widely regarded as India’s most outstanding engineer. In a career that spanned almost his entire life, Vishveshwarayya played a pivotal role in several engineering projects, including designing the Krishnarajasagara dam that is still the source of irrigation and drinking water for parts of Karnataka today.
Tsuneko (7 June 1933) and Reiji Okazaki (8 October 1930 – 1 August 1975) were a Japanese couple who discovered Okazaki fragments – short sequences of DNA that are synthesized during DNA replication and linked together to form a continuous strand.