The majority of Malaysians prefer to go to a hypermarket to purchase the basic necessities for their household. Due to the high acceptance of this modern retailing concept, hypermarket retailing has had an incredible impact with respect to the overall retailing industry in Malaysia. This research explores the advantages of having more hypermarket o

This paper provides a detailed analysis of public response to the rare earth industry in Malaysia. House-to-house interview was conducted in 2013 (N=1097). Males were more acceptable of the RE industry compared to female (p<0.05) and the government workers were less acceptable of the risk (p<.0.05). Only 7.02% of the respondents reported th

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Today the phenomenon of “social and moral turbulence” has gone beyond the boundaries of banking and finance to embrace global politics, climate change and environmental disasters, international relations, inter-religious and intra-religious discord, food insecurity scenario, urban crime, lawlessness, and – not least – the daily hazards of l

There is a significant loss of green space happening in Kuala Lumpur to pave the way for more built up developments, resulting in population losing more than a few shrubs on the ground. The situation raises the question on the importance of green spaces towards the planning implementation and development decision. As there are mixed evidences on th

Microfinance is often portrayed as the panacea to poverty alleviation and human development. However, the plethora of impact studies in microfinance suggested a varying degree of success amongst countries adopting the Grameen model of microfinance. In the case of Malaysia, impact studies in microfinance have suggested significant improvements on th

Interactive street art has emerged as a new form of public art that is starting to gain attention in different cities, including Malaysia. It is not simply just an artwork located along the streets, but it also brings a new kind of phenomenon to the city’s interactivity and vitality. As it is still considerably new in Malaysia, there has not been

Face recognition presents a challenging problem in the field of image analysis and computer vision, and as such has received a great deal of attention over the last few years because of its applications in various domains. Face recognition under controlled environment that is where pose, illumination and other factors are controlled, has well been

This research looks at consumer preference concerning shopping day and time within the Malaysian market. There are five main hypermarket players in Malaysia. The analysis of this research is based on cross-tabulation analysis between the hypermarket players and the preferred shopping day and time. Data were collected from hypermarket consumers thro

Hypermarket retailing is very well accepted by most people, especially those who are living in urban areas with a high population density. Parallel to the high acceptance, hypermarket retailers are continuously enhancing the retailing operation by offering better facilities for consumers within a modern self-service shopping concept as a service ut