There are more than 500 institutions of private higher education comprising of colleges, university colleges, and fully university status. These institutions are supposed to help fill the gap of limited seats for potential students in Government Institutions of Higher learning. A total sample of 375 students comprising student of year 11, 12, and 1

In the last few decades, there have been global concerns on the underutilisation and underdevelopment of Waqf assets, poor governance and weak registry of Waqf lands and a host of other problems which are inhibiting the modernising of Waqf. Conferences have been organised to highlight the weaknesses of the Waqf system in various jurisdictions world

Thanks to the initiative of IAIS Malaysia, Fajr Symphony, Crescent Collective and Urban Village, ‘Desert Rose’ from Africa made its debut performance in the IAIS Conference Hall on 21st June 2013, where a common feeling pervaded that “music connects people” and “music unites people, in a world of differences”. By late evening the Hall w

Various renewable energy technologies are under considerable interest due to the projected depletion of our primary sources of energy and global warming associated with their utilizations. One of the alternatives under focus is renewable fuels produced from agricultural wastes. Malaysia, being one of the largest producers of palm oil, generates abu

Animals help to sustain the environment's life cycle and ecosystem. Without human intervention, these creatures carry out their 'spontaneous routine' jobs and contribute towards balance in nature. Any natural system that congregates as a result of some form of collective intelligence of nature is also known as swarm intelligence (SI). T

The article describes the development of accounting and tax law in Malaysia, and discusses the similarities and differences between those two systems.© Copyright 2013 IBFD. All rights reserved. 1 DisclaimerMalaysia The Intersection of Accounting and Taxation in Malaysia Salwa Hana Yussof [*] Issue: Bulletin for International Taxation, 2013 (Volume

The goal of this study is to explore how flood-affected communities in Kuala Lumpur use their community-based organisation (CBO) in dealing with their vulnerability. Data was collected for this study through interviews, survey questionnaire, document analysis and field observation. The study finds CBO has a crucial responsibility in managing disast

Some writing classrooms have included the use of computer-mediated communication (CMC) online tools to facilitate and enhance students’ writing process. This case study investigates how one of the tools, namely wiki can be used in writing as a process (versus writing as a product) activity in providing feedback to students’ academic report. Dat

This study is aimed at investigating individual as well as bank specific factors affecting bank customers’ decision prior to patronizing a bank. As many as 394 customers from Islamic and conventional banks are involved in the survey and the data collected are analyzed using logistic regression. The results show that working environment, ease of o

In this paper the problem of matching Forward Kinematics (FK) motion of a 3 Dimensional (3D) joint chain to the Inverse Kinematics (IK) movement and vice versa has been addressed. The problem lies at the heart of animating a 3D character having controller and manipulator based rig for animation within any 3D modeling and animation software. The sea