Former Secretary-General of Malaysia's Transport Ministry and Former President of Transparency International Malaysia, Ramon Navaratnam speaks his mind. An outspoken critic of Malaysian politics and society, Mr Navaratnam feels that it is his duty to speak up and tell the truth. He shares his thoughts with DNA over the merger and separation of Malaysia and Singapore, as well as his frank assessment of the two countries' pioneer Prime Ministers, Tunku Abdul Rahman and Lee Kuan Yew.
This article is investigating Boria which is a kind of common performance in Malaysia. Boria has been known as Boria and Borea and both are correct, but Boria is more common. Boria is a folk performance unique to Penang. This theatre style reached Penang in the mid-19th century and is believed to be derived from the Shia Islamic Passion play performed during the Muslim month of Muharram to commemorate the martyrs of Kerbela. These days in Malaysia (especially Penang) Boria mentions to a choral street performance performed annually by a number of groups composed mostly of Sunni Malaysian. Boria are performed for entertainment and often include an annual singing competition. The size, membership, themes and movements of each Boria troupe may vary from year to year. Similarly, the themes and contents of the Boria performed by the different troupes also changes each year and can have a comical, political or satirical notion. It is common to most groups during the first ten days of Muharram Boria generally is done.
This article is investigating Boria which is a kind of common performance in Malaysia. Boria has been known as Boria and Borea and both are correct, but Boria is more common. Boria is a folk performance unique to Penang. This theatre style reached Penang in the mid-19th century and is believed to be derived from the Shia Islamic Passion play performed during the Muslim month of Muharram to commemorate the martyrs of Kerbela. These days in Malaysia (especially Penang) Boria mentions to a choral street performance performed annually by a number of groups composed mostly of Sunni Malaysian. Boria are performed for entertainment and often include an annual singing competition. The size, membership, themes and movements of each Boria troupe may vary from year to year. Similarly, the themes and contents of the Boria performed by the different troupes also changes each year and can have a comical, political or satirical notion. It is common to most groups during the first ten days of Muharram Boria generally is done.
Abstract—This article is investigating Boria which is a kind of common performance in Malaysia. Boria has been known as Boria and Borea and both are correct, but Boria is more common. Boria is a folk performance unique to Penang. This theatre style reached Penang in the mid-19th century and is believed to be derived from the Shia Islamic Passion play performed during the Muslim month of Muharram to commemorate the martyrs of Kerbela. These days in Malaysia (especially Penang) Boria mentions to a choral street performance performed annually by a number of groups composed mostly of Sunni Malaysian. Boria are performed for entertainment and often include an annual singing competition. The size, membership, themes and movements of each Boria troupe may vary from year to year. Similarly, the themes and contents of the Boria performed by the different troupes also changes each year and can have a comical, political or satirical notion. It is common to most groups during the first ten days of Muharram Boria generally is done.
Malaysia: Der politische Cartoonist Zunar hat in den letzten Jahren massive Kritik an der malaysischen Regierung geübt. Nach schweren Repressalien wurde er – politisch motiviert – wegen Aufwiegelung angeklagt, das Verfahren aber nach dem Regierungswechsel eingestellt. Über seine Situation im "Neuen Malaysia" spricht er im Interview.
Your Excellency, we are greatly honoured by your presence with us and I ask you to pass on to your colleagues in the Government of Malaysia the warm thanks of the Commonwealth of Learning for your generous support of this meeting of our Focal Points from the Asia-Pacific region.
Umweltschutz kann nur dann erfolgreich sein, wenn auch die Menschenrechte gewährleistet werden. Dies machte Herr K.K. Tan, stellvertretender Vorsitzende der Environmental Protections Society Malaysia, EPSM, in seiner Rede auf einer Veranstaltung im Oktober 1989 in Amsterdam deutlich. Tan war als Umweltaktivist einer von 119 im Oktober 1987 nach dem Gesetz zur Inneren Sicherheit verhafteten "NGOlern". Wir drucken eine Mitschrift der Rede im folgenden ab.
Malaysia is located in the heart of South East Asia with two land masses, Peninsular Malaysia and East Malaysia which are separated by the South China Sea. Stroke or cerebrovascular disease is Malaysia's third leading cause of death. There were 47, 911 incident cases, 19,928 deaths, 443,995 prevalent cases, and 512,726 DALYs lost due to stroke in 2019. Successive national health and morbidity surveys from 2006 demonstrated a continuous rise in the prevalence of risk factors such as diabetes, hyperlipidaemia, and obesity. These risk factors are implicated in an increase in stroke incidence in those under 65 years of age, the largest increase of 53.3% and 50.4% in men and women, respectively, from the age strata of 35–39 years. The neurologist-to-patient ratio is 1:323,000 with the majority of neurologists working in urban centres. The healthcare system is provided predominantly by the public and private sectors. Concurrent use of traditional and complementary medicine is common and widely accepted. Challenges include delivering adequate care to rural communities, the low overall ischaemic stroke thrombolysis rates, and the high cost of thrombectomy devices for use in large vessel occlusions which have to be borne out-of-pocket by patients and their families. Effort is required to continue improving stroke care services in parallel with primary and secondary prevention strategies in the future, given the ageing population and the rising number of strokes in young adults nationally. Strategies include careful planning, inter-hospital cooperation, and increased allocation of resources from the government.
Der Klimawandel hat weitreichende Folgen auf die Gesundheit der Menschen. Insbesondere Übertragungskrankheiten wie Dengue bekommen global gesehen eine zunehmende Bedeutung. Über die raumzeitliche Verteilung und das Umwelt-Dengue Risiko ist bisher wenig bekannt. Das Hauptziel dieser Dissertation war es daher, die Ätiologie von Dengue in einem hoch endemischen Gebiet besser zu verstehen. Es wurden räumliche Muster des Krankheitsauftretens untersucht, die anschließend in einer Umwelt-Risiko Analyse mit örtlichen Wetterdaten und Landnutzungsinformationen in Zusammenhang gebracht wurden. Zunächst wurde ein raumzeitlicher Ansatz durchgeführt, um herauszufinden, in wie weit Analysen, die verschiedene Aggregationsebenen miteinander kombinieren, zu neuen Erkenntnissen von raumzeitlichen Mustern von Dengue beitragen können. Anschließend wurde ein auf nicht-lineare zeitliche Einflüsse kontrolliertes, Poisson-generalisiertes additives Regressionsmodell genutzt, um herauszufinden, welchen Einfluss Wetterparameter auf die Verbreitung von Dengue haben. Schließlich wurden Boosted regression trees verwendet, um auf nicht-lineare Zusammenhänge und Interaktionen zwischen einzelnen Landnutzungsfaktoren und Dengue zu kontrollieren und um eine Risikokarte zu erstellen. Die Ergebnisse deuten darauf hin, dass mehr als eine geographische Ebene notwendig ist, um Krankheitscluster zu bestätigen. Minimaltemperatur, Regenmenge, und Windgeschwindigkeit waren mit der Verbreitung von Dengue im Untersuchungsgebiet assoziiert. Räumliche Dengue-Muster konnten durch Siedlungen, Wasser, gemischte Landwirtschaftsflächen, offene Flächen und stillgelegte Grünflächen erklärt werden. Dengue-Risiko ist auf der Ergebniskarte des Studiengebietes ersichtlich. Diese Dissertation liefert sowohl wertvolle Informationen für die Gesundheitspolitik in Malaysia als auch wichtige Herangehensweisen für die Entwicklung von Dengue-Kontrollmechanismen in und über die Untersuchungsregion hinaus. ; Global changes to our earth system have impacts on human health; specifically vector-borne diseases such as dengue are of epidemiological importance. Dengue is a global disease burden. Little is known about the spatio-temporal distribution and environmental risk association of dengue disease. The main goal of this dissertation was to improve understanding of the etiology of dengue disease in a highly endemic region by focusing on, initially, vulnerability mapping of the disease occurrences and, next, environmental risk assessment between disease clusters and both weather and land use. First, a Spatio-temporal scan statistics approach was used to assess to what extent analyses that combine sub-district and address level data contribute to new insights into spatio-temporal dengue disease patterns to better inform health interventions. Second, a Poisson generalized additive model was used to assess the weather effects on dengue disease accounting for non-linear temporal effects. Third, a Boosted regression trees approach was used to account for nonlinearities and interactions between the land use factors and dengue disease and to generate a risk map. Results suggested that more than one geographical level was needed to confirm the disease clusters. Minimum temperature, rainfall and wind speed, were associated with the dengue cases in the study area. Spatial patterns of dengue cases could be explained by land use types, including human settlements, water bodies, mixed horticulture land, open land and neglected grassland. The predicted risk map depicted dengue risk in the study area. This dissertation provided compelling approaches that are highly valuable for dengue vector control policy advice; applicability is not confined to Malaysia but is transferable to other studies in similar settings.
This book is about a collection of scholarly research done over the years while working and lecturing at UTM in Malaysia. My aection with Malaysia started while I was working on my post-graduate studies, specializing in Asia-Pacic region. Back then, Dr. Mahathir Bin Mohamad was the ery prime minister, that put Malaysia on the map, attempting to bring Asian together, and advising the West in the United Nations assembly that democracy should be the rule amongst all members of the UN. Impressed with the economic performance of Malaysia, triggered an interest in examining how Malaysia (under PM Maha- thir) managed to pull out of the nancial crisis of 1997, that gripped much of South East Asia. Years later, Malaysia managed to pull itself out of the nan- cial crisis, and to be a rising Asian tiger. While consulting in South East Asia, I managed to work eventually and teach at number of universities in Malaysia. The advantage of working for the top ve global con- sulting rms, is the abundance of raw data, reports, studies and information available at my disposal. Such information, combined with scholarly aca- demic drive to conduct research (on Malaysia) al- lowed for in-depth insight into the various inner workings of Malaysian industries. A separate book was published with numerous business cases in 2017 covering dierent Malaysian industries. This early interest has turned into love and aection to a coun- try with unique history, resources, and marvelous people. The deeper my research of Malaysia, the more my frustration grew with the lack of ability of a na- tion to move into a unique socio-economic position. That is, to equalize with Singapore, or compete at the global level with Korea. I chose 2020 to publish this body of work, because I was waiting to conrm my hypothesis that Malaysia will not manage to achieve Wawasan 2020 (vision 2020), which is to be amongst 1st world nations. Failing to achieve vision 2020 is no coincidence. Malaysia is stuck in the middle between cheap production countries such as ...
ABSTRAK Makalah ini membincangkan penyeludupan yang berlaku di Pulau Sebatik, sebuah pulau yang dikongsi bersama oleh Malaysia-Indonesia. Tumpuan diberikan kepada penyeludupan dadah, senjata dan teroris serta pemerdagangan manusia dan pendatang tanpa izin (PTI) yang berlaku di pulau tersebut. Kedudukan Pulau Sebatik yang sangat ideal membolehkan penyeludupan dilakukan oleh pihak sindiket mahupun individu serta ditambah lagi dengan beberapa faktor seperti rasuah, kurangnya kawalan pihak keselamatan Malaysia, jaringan sosial serta kejauhan jarak antara Pulau Sebatik (Indonesia)-Jakarta. Dengan menggunakan kaedah kualitatif, data diperoleh melalui temu bual dan pemerhatian di lapangan serta rujukan buku, tesis, artikel jurnal, akhbar di samping laman web agensi kerajaan. Dapatan kajian mendapati dadah yang di seludup melalui Pulau Sebatik hanya sekitar 10 peratus sahaja, namun kemudiannya disebarkan sehingga ke Sulawesi Selatan. Pulau ini digunakan sebagai laluan bagi aktiviti kumpulan radikal di Indonesia mendapatkan latihan serta menyokong pihak yang tertindas di selatan Filipina di samping menyeludup senjata dari selatan Filipina ke Indonesia; dan sindiket pemerdagangan orang dan PTI mengambil peluang kerana menyedari ramai rakyat dari Indonesia yang mahu masuk ke Sabah untuk bekerja. ABSTRACT This paper discusses smuggling activities taking place on Sebatik Island, an island that is shared by Malaysia-Indonesia. The focus is on drug smuggling, weapons smuggling and its links to terrorists organisations/cells, as well as human trafficking in which the Indonesian-migration border has been described as largest clandestine migrant flows in the world. The island's geographic position compounded by corruption, lack of control by Malaysian security, social network and Sebatik (Indonesia)-Jakarta distance, makes it ideal for smuggling syndicates and individuals. The findings were found by using qualitative methods with data obtained through interviews, field observations as well as books, theses, journal articles, newspapers as well as government agency websites. The results of the study found that drugs through Sebatik were only 10 per cent but it was then spread all the way to South Sulawesi; radical groups in Indonesia use Sebatik to obtain training and provide support to those oppressed in the southern Philippines while at the same time, weapons are being smuggled from the Philippines to Indonesia; and human trafficking syndicates prey on Indonesians who are desperate for job opportunities in Malaysia. These criminal activities of smugglers clearly undermine the capacity of states to safeguard their own sovereignty.
Die vergleichsweise sehr hohen Frauenanteile in technischen bzw. ingenieurwissenschaftlichen Studienrichtungen im wirtschaftlich aufstrebenden Malaysia waren Anlass, die Rahmenbedingungen für diese Entwicklung genauer zu analysieren. Die von der Abt. Arbeitsmarktforschung und Berufsinformation des AMS Österreich und Soll & Haberfellner Unternehmens- und Projektberatung (www.soll-und-haberfellner.at) in den Jahren 2011/2012 realisierte Studie wurde mit der Erwartung in Angriff genommen, dass spezielle - und eventuell innovative - außereuropäische Modelle der Berufsorientierung recherchiert werden können, die zu einer höheren Beteiligung von Frauen in technischen bzw. ingenieurwissenschaftlichen Studien und Berufen führen. Diese Erwartung wurde nur bedingt erfüllt, denn es stellte sich heraus, dass die - im Vergleich zu Österreich und anderen westlichen Ländern - deutlich höheren Frauenanteile nicht auf speziell für Mädchen und Frauen entwickelte Maßnahmen zurückzuführen sind, sondern auf die sehr speziellen wirtschaftlichen, gesellschaftlichen und bildungspolitischen Rahmenbedingungen in Malaysia bzw. die diesbezüglichen Zielsetzungen und Interventionen der malaysischen Regierung der letzten 20 Jahre. Um die zum Teil durchaus komplexen Zusammenhänge zu durchleuchten und darstellen zu können, wurde daher folgendermaßen vorgegangen: Ausführliche Literaturrecherchen, wobei Veröffentlichungen von WissenschafterInnen, insbesondere aber auch internationaler Organisationen wie der Weltbank, der OECD und UNESCO und deren Daten recherchiert wurden. Aufgrund der überaus dynamischen Entwicklung in Malaysia wurde der Fokus auf rezente Literatur und Datenquellen gelegt. Umfassende Recherchen im Internet, wobei auch malaysische Medien und Informationsangebote der malaysischen Universitäten, Regierungsbehörden etc. miteinbezogen wurden. An zwei malaysischen Universitäten wurden qualitative Interviews mit (überwiegend) weiblichen Angehörigen des akademischen Lehrkörpers durchgeführt.
National women's movements are increasingly practising transnational networking. By doing so, particular interests which were formally confined to be articulated in a national political arena, are now defined as shared interests of transnational concern. The article argues that transnational networking provides a window of opportunity for the formulation of strategies and the framing of a movement's goals. In the long run, political opportunity structures on the national level may change because of pressure arising from the international exposure of a country's stance towards women's rights. A crucial condition, however, is the ability of a movement to mobilize resources in order to sustain its activities in a national as well as transnational context. By and large, the rationale of social movement theories applies to national and transnational movements alike.
This Country Profile provides a brief overview of religious diversity and its governance in the above-named state. It is one of 23 such profiles produced by GREASE, an EU-funded research project investigating religious diversity, state-religion relations and religiously inspired radicalisation on four continents. More detailed assessments are available in our multi-part Country Reports and Country Cases. ; This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement number 770640.
This Country Report offers a detailed assessment of religious diversity and violent religious radicalisation in the above-named state. It is part of a series covering 23 countries (listed below) on four continents. More basic information about religious affiliation and state-religion relations in these states is available in our Country Profiles series. This report was produced by GREASE, an EU-funded research project investigating religious diversity, secularism and religiously inspired radicalisation. ; This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement number 770640.
