The security of one’s residence or property is an essential consideration that warrants careful attention to safeguard the premises and its contents. It has become increasingly apparent today that physical key door locks are susceptible to damage and can be compromised by unauthorized individuals. The inherent vulnerability of physical key door l

Due to cumbersome procedures, traditional car rental systems fail customers and rental companies. This work presents CRent, a vehicle rental system using mobile app administration and IoT technology. Online car rental platform CRent has an IoT-enabled Accident Detection System (ADS) to improve safety. Online car and financial transactions make rent

Malaysia adopts constitutional monarchy system through parliamentary democracy. The Federal Constitution, Articles 32(1) and 33(1), create a ‘supreme head of the federation’ known as the Yang di-Pertuan Agong (YDPA) and a ‘deputy supreme head of the federation’ known as the Deputy YDPA, respectively. While, Article 38(1) creates a ‘Confer

In the contemporary world, the majority of States have written constitutions except in a few countries such as the United Kingdom and Israel, among others. Even though a country may not have a constitution, there exist legal instruments or documents with the characteristics of a constitution prescribing imperative rules for the governance of that c

The paper seeks to examine the corpus of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (d. 1273) in light of establishing new ways of constituting the Human and Social Sciences. It is based on the assumptions that the existing social and human sciences are anthropocentric in nature, and were produced within a culture and civilization that placed man as the centre and th

THE British Museum's website tells us that only one per cent of its holdings are on display. Simple arithmetic tells us 99 per cent are not on display. Greed? Arrogance? The lingering colonial nonchalance?

Mycobacteria fortuitum and chelonae are a group of Rapidly Growing Mycobacteria (RGM) that can cause skin infections, most commonly in immunocompromised patients. RGM can also infect immunocompetent patients, but the disease is usually localized. Immunocompetent patients infected by RGM usually had a predisposing condition leading to the skin infec

The Malays have two sets of narratives in encounters with the West – one is actual, the other mythical/ metaphysical. Melaka was one of the earliest places of encounters, in both sense of the word, producing the Ferringhis and Rum (Rome). These are popular conceptions of the world, forging our consciousness as a nation. And so when the Ferringghi

The Ferringhi, Farang, and Franks have their origins at a particular moment in history, geography, and identity formation. It is an ethnography, of not only a Malay marker of the European, but by other societies that have come into contact with the natives of “the northern quadrant” where “the sun is far from the zenith – increasingly far t

Alfian Saat’s Merdeka is a timely reminder for history-starved Singapore. It is about Singapore’s breaking up with the West, on why Raffles must fall. I was among the Singaporeans in October of last year. Watching the play is like digesting large chunks of texts in two hours, alerting me to the ‘emptiness’ of the island’s past identity ha