................................................................. and global environmental issues VII. Conclusion ........................................................................................................ VIII. Reference ........................................................................................................ Introduction The rapid development of economy, high depleted, high pollution mode of economic growth,to make the country's environment problem increasingly prominent. However, many of the countries in the implementation of green strategy to make the country's economic sustainable development. this report through discussed to Green strategies based on environmental policy in Malaysia how can improve environmental quality. And from the education and awareness, the effective management of natural resources and environment,comprehensive development planning and implementation, prevention and control of environment pollution and degradation, and global environment issues have been summarized. I). Environmental education and awareness in...
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...MALAYSIA – SINGAPORE RELATIONS: THE SECURITY DILEMMAS INTRODUCTION ‘It's impossible to be friendly with Singapore because of the neighbouring city states’ unfriendliness towards Malaysia. Singapore gets into that kind of mood that they reject anything that comes from Malaysia. We try to be as friendly as possible but it's impossible’.[1] Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad Former Malaysia Prime Minister “…we fear that at some time or other there could be a random act of madness like cutting off our water supplies, which they had publicly threatened whenever there were differences between us… we have to be prepared for all contingencies”.[2] Lee Kuan Yew Former Singapore Prime Minister Singapore became a part of Malaysia in 1963. On the part of Singapore, such was a welcomed move as Singapore lacks the depth, mass and resources deemed necessary for development and survival. On the part of Malaysia, however, it started-off as a half-hearted decision, with Tunku Abdul Rahman fearing that the Chinese population in Singapore would, after the merger, upset the Malay majority in Malaya. In May 1960, he told Malayan students in London that “(The) Chinese-educated and new immigrants will always be loyal to China and they are less Malay-minded,” and that the inclusion of the 1.3 million Chinese would confuse Malayans and ruin the calm atmosphere of the Federation[3]...
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...Question 1 Names of aquatic plant | Parts and its fuction | Water hyacinth (Eichhornia Crassipes) | The stems and leaves contain airfilled tissue which give the plant its considerablebuoyancy. | Duckweed (Lemnaceae) | Entire lower surface of fronds can absorb nutrients from the medium, and the plants can grow well under conditions which entirely prevent root elongation. | Water Primrose (Ludwigia) | The creeping and floating stems allow it to find open water and sunlight through the larger emergent plants. | Water fern (Azolla filiculoides) | The sporophytes consist of two lobed leaves and rhizomes.The lower lobes of the leaves are usually larger than the upper and so adapted for floating the plant. (Hussner, 2010). | Knotweed (Polygonum spp.) | Vigorous rhizomes helps to regenerate when buried up to depths of three feet (0.9 m). (Parkinson and Mangold, 2010) | Question 2 The Pond Skater (Gerris lacustris) is an insect that is especially well suited to life in Wetlands. They have specialized, paddle like legs that enable the insect to "skate" over the surface of the water, riding on the surface tension that lies between the water and the air. Migratory Fish Migratory species such as Salmon, Trout and Eel can survive all levels of salinity in their migration through River, Estuarine and Coastal Wetlands. Fish such as these that are able to adapt to varying levels of salinity are described as eurythaline. Gator Holes Alligators in Southern Florida Wetlands...
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...and hazardous waste management in Malaysia, which is a developing country that has major public health and environmental concerns especially in urban areas. Global Environment Centre says that “Solid waste is one of the three major environmental problems in Malaysia and currently, over 23,000 tons of waste is produced each day in Malaysia. However, this amount is expected to rise to 30,000 tons by the year 2020. The amount of waste generated continues to increase due to the increasing population and development, and only less than 5% of the waste is being recycled.” According to WHO Western Pacific Regional Environmental Health Centre (EHC), “ Some of the main problems in Malaysia are technical, financial, economic and social constraints. The first steps I will take in my needs assessment survey will be to collect background information on the communities in Malaysia. I will then develop a series of questions to address to the communities in collecting existing data and some of the processes that are currently in place. For example: What are they currently doing to reduce waste, what provides waste removal and do they have any type of recycling services or litter cleanup programs, also do they have any type of waste management for the disposal of hazardous waste for industrial and healthcare facilities. Malaysia has over 1800 rivers which are their only water resource so I will find out if they have a process in place to prevent water pollution and I will then request...
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...their own language makes for a very good start to build relationship. Because in Malaysia now, English language being a command language for all people use to communicate with each other’s surrounding, Even in office, school, universities, and so on. For those would aren’t to leave behind now need to master and learn English language from the beginning. The changes of the instruction in education was started from the former prime minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad, which was part of two-year government funded research project “Language Policy and Planning in Higher Education in Malaysia: Responding to the Needs of the Knowledge Economy. Thesis statement: The English language should be the medium of instruction for Malaysia universities because they promote communication with the international world, the graduates will have good communication skills, different cultures to communicate with internet technology. Body 1 - is that it enables student to communication with the international world. In these days - In my opinion, the important thing for university and graduates is to follow the development in technology, they have to learn common in English language - School and university student are bad attitudes toward language and general of speech. The word is writ large the Malaysia student languages do not have good command of English. - The presence of local languages assumes importance by student will not be able to learn a subject in the English language. This...
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...academicjournals.org/AJBM ISSN 1993-8233 ©2011 Academic Journals Full Length Research Paper The students’ degree of preference for residence hall facilities and amenities, study of a developing country Fatemeh Khozaei1*, Ahmad Sanusi Hassan1 and T Ramayah2 1 School of Housing Building and Planning, Universiti Sains, Malaysia. 2 School of management, Universiti Sains, Malaysia. Accepted 15 June, 2011 The main purpose of this study was to explore the degree of university residence hall students’ preferences for some facilities and amenities. With a case study of a developing country, this paper also aimed to determine whether the mean score of these preferences differed significantly with regard to students’ gender, nationality, race and study level. Structured questionnaires were administrated to 850 residence hall students, and 752 questionnaires were usable out of these numbers. The result of the study indicated that free internet access, lockable storage space and mirror inside student’s room, water machine and variety of food in food stall were the 5 most preferred facilities in the residence halls. Additionally, this study highlighted the importance of some specific facilities such as kitchen, laundry monitoring system and 24 h available taxi from students’ perspective. It was found that students had a great interest to these facilities as well. The research further uncovered a significant difference among male and female students, race and study level on their...
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...Marketplace Awards & Achievements GRI Standard Disclosures COVER: One of Nestlé Malaysia’s key successful rural development programmes has been its contract farming initiatives, where farmers are actively engaged to be part of the Nestlé supply chain. In February 2012, the Nestlé Paddy Club was introduced with the aim of increasing field productivity and lowering production costs, whilst reducing rice-farming’s environmental footprint, as well as enhancing overall farming safety aspects at the contract farms in Kedah. Nestlé (Malaysia) Berhad 110925-W 16 1 Our Respect and Care for the Community 46 Our People and the Workplace 20 Our Commitment to the Environment At Nestlé, we believe that in order to create long-term value for our shareholders, we have to create value for society, subscribing to the view that corporate success and social development go hand in hand. 58 Our Consumers and the Marketplace 2 Nestlé (Malaysia) Berhad 110925-W Message to Stakeholders Creating Shared Value (CSV) is at the core of our business. That is how our company started off, with our founder, Henri Nestlé, a Swiss pharmacist who developed the world’s first milk food for infants in an effort to save his neighbour’s child who was unable to accept the mother’s breast milk. And that is our guiding principle today. Extending beyond compliance and sustainability, our CSV philosophy aims to continuously create shared benefits for society and our shareholders. 2012...
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...1) Identify the factors which account for the growth of the manufacturing industry in Malaysia and assess their relative importance. Malaysia is classified as one of Asia’s NICs on the basis of its rapid economic development. Along with its southern and northern neighbours Indonesia and Thailand, Malaysia is classified as a “second wave” Asian Tiger, rather than a first like South Korea and Singapore are. It is more than 30 years since multinational companies, with headquarters in North America, Western Europe and Japan, began relocating and expanding units of production in selected Asian countries to take advantage of lower costs of production. As a result this has accounted for the growth of manufacturing industry in Malaysia. The first factor that explains the economic miracle of industrial growth in any of the Asian countries is cheap labour. During the 1970s, increasing personal prosperity in MEDCs fuelled the growth of the consumer society, which in turn accelerated the demand for a wide range of electrical and other household goods and clothes. These are either assembled in factory production lines, or are made using high inputs of labour. Cheap labour was a vital factor in terms of kick-starting the revolution of Malaysia’s manufacturing industry, it offered many large companies the incentive to locate there in the first place, such companies as; Hewlett Packard, Bosch and Fairchild - delivers energy efficient power semiconductor, analog, discrete & optoelectronic...
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...Transportation in Malaysia INTRODUCTION The purpose of this paper is to define the transportation system and its assets in Malaysia providing a brief history of the country’s transportation and examine the different means through which passengers and goods are moved from one place to another with emphasis on technology development and its overall impact on transportation. The paper will also explore the Malaysian culture looking at the origin of multiculturalism and how its broad acceptance has contributed to a better atmosphere of harmony resulting into a peaceful practice of desired religions. Further, the paper will analyze the role of government in the area of education, and the impact of technology on Malaysian culture in general. Finally, the paper will describe the moral and ethical issues associated with technology and how Malaysia addresses them. History of Malaysia’s transportation system The gateway to any society is better transportation and Malaysia is a country that has been improving on its transportation beginnings. Understanding the definition of the transportation system will provide clarity of the different system designs, structures, and capabilities set in place to meet specific transportation needs of the Malaysian people whether it is by land, air, and water. Asianinfo.org states “Malaysia’s road system, which was begun during British colonization, is extensive and covers about 63,455km.” The road systems length spans 39,429...
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...more than 70% of Earth is made up of water, we should be able to use it abundantly right? Unfortunately, we cannot! As this, 70% of water is salted, unhygienic, and not suitable for our daily tasks (Ibrahim, 2013). Public health and living standards are heavily dependent on clean water (Liangxin et al., 2014). We need to conserve Earth for our future generations, but if we misuse the resources, which are available to us, such as water, our planet might become extinct sooner than what scientists have predicted. According to the United Nations Development Programme (2012) cited in (Liangxin et al., 2014), “The percentage of the world’s population that has access to drinking water has increased from 77% to 89% between 1990 and 2010.” In addition developing countries in the near future may face massive water shortages, due to the rising population and demand for clean water (UNDP, 2012) cited in (Liangxin et al., 2014). As there is limited clean and safe water available, we need to use this necessity with great care, so that everyone can receive a share of it. After all, there is NO LIFE WITHOUT WATER. Objective The objective of this report is to make Malaysians understand the importance of water conservation, to come up with various strategies and tactics on how to use water wisely. Why water conservation specifically? Because earlier this year in Klang Valley, Malaysia, there was a water crisis, as there was not enough amount of stored water in a dam to be distributed throughout...
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...Lim noticed water filtration system was yet detected by others. This water filtration system is capable of filtering normal water to water like natural water by embracing concept “wisdom of nature” whereby this water filtration system, DIAMOND, become a turning point and road to success for NEP. Mr. Lim found out that natural water is good for health and unforeseen benefits to human lifestyle by science and market research which this confirmed his belief of “No water is better than natural water”. DIAMOND Mr. Lim has given up all his existing business and started over again to push DIAMOND as the best water filtration system. He secured the ownership of the water filtration system first and labeled the brand as DIAMOND. There are 6 success beliefs that DIAMOND hold onto: Believe in dreams, Do things differently, Be the best, Inspire our customers, Be focus, Be grateful. Their corporate missions and visions are: Missions | Visions | Create a better life for our customers | To become a successful world class corporation | Assist space our team members to have a happy life, nurturing the team members to be productive | To become among the Top 3 most successful water system corporation in the world | Aspire to contribute as a corporate citizen to a healthy lifestyle, charity and education for our society and the world | To become a world class corporation that is able to flourish for the failure | DIAMOND has penetrated to 4 other countries from Malaysia: Singapore...
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...I. Introduction According to S. R. Harvey (2004), Public Finance is the branch of economics that studies the taxing and spending activities of government. Public finance refers to government activities including taxing, spending, and budgeting. Government controls the public activities to ensure stabilization of economic. In order to maintain the economic stabilization in the country, there must be budget. Means that budget is important for the government to allocate the expenditure of the country. Budget can be defined as an estimation of income and expenditure for a set period of time. Furthermore, budget is a microeconomic concept that shows the tradeoff made when one good is exchanged for another. . According to Ekstein (1973), budget can been define as detail statement of income and expenditure that have been made or expected to be made. There are several function of a budget which is as a policy tool and instrument. Means that, budget is a tangible of a policy decision whereby budget is a means of establishing policy that been accomplished through the budget’s allocation of government resource. Besides that other function of budget is as a management tool whereby almost all government activities are funded through the budget and since the budget is a continuous process it is an effective tool for the public official because it provides an effective management device at every stage of government activity. Means that, any of the activity planned by government will be reflected...
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...dissertation is concerned with research specifically looking at the relevance of istisna’ for financing infrastructure projects, the potential barriers and strategies identification to implement in Malaysia. The purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview of the research conducted. It will discuss on the general ideas of the study. The points to be discussed in this chapter are: • Background to the research • Problem statement • Research aim and objectives • Scope of the research • Research questions • Methodology outline • Significance of the research • Structure of the research • Summary 1.2 Background to the research Infrastructure has become important in supporting a nation’s...
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...Overview of Sustainable Industry in Malaysia. The 2014 was a huge success to government which a total 396.61MW of renewable energy approved by the Sustainability Energy Development Authority and its represent a total 466% year-on-year growth. The increase of the renewable energy represent years of planning and execution by relevant authorities to regulate and draft policies that suits Malaysian environment. As sustainable industry and climate change are interrelated, often the regulation and policies are overlapped. The Malaysian governement acknowledge the importance of government’s role in reducing climate change, therefore the history of Malaysian government in regulating the policies can be traced back as far as 1992. Below are summary of the Malaysian government sustainavle development agenda: In 2009, Malaysian parliament had passed the National Renewable Energy policy and Action Plan (2009) with the vision to enhance the utilization of indigenous renewable energy (RE) resources to contribute towards national electricity supply security and sustainable socioeconomic development. The objectives of the policies are: To increase RE contribution in the national power generation mix; To facilitate the growth of the RE industry; To ensure reasonable RE generation costs; To conserve the environment for future generations; and To enhance awareness on the role and importance of RE. The National Green Technology Policy which was introduced in 2009 has 2 Strategic...
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...Introduction Malaysia economic development strategy, since the introduction of New Economic Policy has hastened the development process in the following years especially 1980s - 90’s decade. Development was further speeded up in 2000s with the nation vision of achieving an industrialized status by year 2020. However, the rapid development process sometimes was carried out without really taking into consideration, that the possibility of such development will impacts on the environment, in this case, impacts towards the rivers. Table 1 below shows the number of polluted river (suspended solids) from year 1998 – 2008. Table [ 1 ]: Number of clean, slighly polluted and polluted basin in Malaysia (Suspended Solids) A) Economic Growth and Water Pollution As the country which moves towards the realization of its vision 2020 to becoming a developed nation through the implementation of its policy agenda for heavy industrialization, infrastructures, and urban-expansions, the water demands increase steeply. There is greater pressure to preserve the current water resources as well as to find alternative course of actions to improve the water quality. In other words, the consistent and rapid growth of urban-industries in Malaysia has undoubtedly resulted in an increase in economic well being of the citizens on the one hand. After all, for the first time in years, the external value of Malaysia’s currency, the ringgit, shrank by nearly 50 per cent while the stock market contracted...
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