Khalwat is considered a moral crime in Malaysian Islamic law. It is one of the syariah criminal offences under the category of offences relating to decency in statutory provisions in states enactments and Federal Territories act. There are a few important issues to be discussed in this paper. Other than on the concept of khalwat in Islamic criminal

Studies have shown that there is a correlation between troublesome classroom behaviors and a gamut of antisocial, aggressive-disruptive behaviors and psychiatric problems.Student classroom misbehavior is linked to student disengagement which correlates with alienation by peers and truancy. Students who misbehaved were reported to perform worse acad

The unequal bargaining power of the parties in the oil and gas industry has lead to the imbalanced contractual risk allocation in oilfield contracts in Malaysia. In this regard, there is a prospect that the operators pass an unfair share of the risks on to the contractors. However, the contractors might still enter into such imbalanced agreement to

The enforcement of Shari’ah criminal offences in Selangor has always been subjected to public scrutiny. The commission of selected Shari’ah criminal offences has been rigorously enforced against by the Religious Enforcement Division of the Department of Islamic Affairs. Alas, there are times that the manner in which the enforcement has been car

This paper examines the status of woman as a shari‘ah court judge according to the classical Muslim jurists. It begins with the historical background of the status of woman before and after the advent of Islam. In the Holy Qur’an there is a chapter on women which shows that the women have a special place in Shari‘ah. However, in the case of a

Oil and gas projects are risky undertakings, which may cause severe damage to property and the environment, not to mention, personal injury and death to personnel. Contractual provision such as an indemnity and mutual hold harmless clause is used as a tool in allocating the risks. Most oil companies, in their task to manage the risks, seek to depar

Laser Sintering (LS) allows functional parts to be produced in a wide range of powdered materials using a dedicated machine, and is thus gaining popularity within the field of rapid prototyping. It offers the user the ability to optimise part design in order to meet customer requirements with few manufacturing restrictions. A problem with LS is tha

Periodontitis is a group of inflammatory diseases that affect the connective tissue attachment and supporting bone around the teeth. Although periodontal diseases are initiated by bacterial pathogens, it is the activation and mediation of host inflammatory responses that are ultimately responsible for the destructive events occurring in the periodo

Toothaches and gum diseases are commonly encountered and persistent problems in dentistry since Antiquity. In Malay medical manuscripts such as ar-Rahmah fi at-Tib and Tayyib al-Ihsan, some sections were devoted to the discussion on causes and treatments of these problems. The discussion may use some Arabic words which indicates influence from Arab

DoS (Denial of Service) attack forces a cloud network node to handle few unauthorized access that employ unwanted computing cycle. As a result, the cloud node response is slow as usual and resource on cloud network becomes unavailable. Some Dos attacks are Ping of Death, Teardrop, Snork, Locking authentication, SYN flooding, Operating System Attack