The newspaper Jawi Peranakan (1876 – 1895), the first Bahasa Melayu periodical in Malaysia grew from the enterprise of the Jawi Peranakan community. It was a weekly, published every Monday. Its printer was Matba’ ‘Al-Saidi (percetakan Muhammad Said), at number 431, Victoria Street (Kampung Gelam), in Singapura. Interestingly the four-paged ne

The Pan-Malayan consciousness was voiced during the struggle of Apolinario Mabini, dubbed the “Brain of the Revolution.” While the Philippine Revolution of 1896 was the struggle for national independence, Mabini understood it in the broader perspective of the liberation of all Malayan peoples. Mabini reminded his countrymen that they were “ma

The Banda islands, in the province of Maluku, in the easternmost part of the Malay Archipelago were famous for nutmegs. It was for the Spices (and the Gospel) that led the Europeans to traverse the Indian Ocean. They said it was also for the pepper. The king of spices will be the ingredient for another story. For now, we follow an English ship to t

The article studies about social ethics in the teaching of Islam and Buddhism. The study aims at highlighting the points of convergency and dissimilarities in social ethics in both religions. It will discuss the ethics which govern a relationship between man in his family in marriage institution, ethics related to man‘s relationship with others i

Abstract: Within the space of question answering (QA) systems, the most critical module to improve overall performance is question analysis processing. Extracting the lexical semantic of a Natural Language (NL) question presents challenges at syntactic and semantic levels for most QA systems. This is due to the difference between the words posed by

This article contributes to the ongoing discourse in gender and women's studies by offering a comprehensive exploration of the work-family interface, focusing on Malaysian Muslim women's unique perspectives and experiences. Employing a quantitative survey approach and examining various facets of this phenomenon, including influencing factor

The rate of committing cybercrimes in Palestine has increased in recent years due to the increased use of the Internet and social media, in addition to the absence of deterrent legislation to combat these crimes. Palestine suffers from legal problems in the field of criminal legislation due to the duplication of penal laws applied in the West Bank

Prolonged mouse usage is one of the main causes of computer-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSD). Mouse is one of the most common input devices to be paired with a computer. Mouse is used to point, select and click across a computer screen with minimal effort. Nevertheless, computer mouse usage has been associated with musculoskeletal disorders.

Elaeis guineensis, commonly known as the African oil palm, holds a prominent position as the world's leading commercialized oil palm species. The shell thickness of the fruit plays important role in oil production. E. guineensis exhibits three fruit form: dura (female), tenera (male), and pisifera, which is a hybrid resulting from the crossbree

This book, Bioethics, the Values of Life in the Age of Advancing Biosciences, addresses ethical issues and practices on the advances of biosciences. It focuses on the need for balancing between moral demands of what ought to be in life and modern developments in the fields of biotechnology, biomedicine, environmental sciences and healthcare practic