R.K. Narayan, a pioneer of South Asian fiction in English, once argued that the underlying objective of every Indian story is to create a “distinction between good and evil” and show that “goodness triumphs in the end… if not immediately, at least in a thousand years; if not in this world, at least in other worlds.” This literary trend of

Provides an overview of the contents in the issue and sums up the arguments in the articles.ASIATIC, VOLUME 9, NUMBER 1, JUNE 2015 Asiatic , Vol. 9, No. 1, June 2015 1 Editor’s Column This issue of Asiatic has seven sections. The first section is devoted to Syd Harrex (1935 -2015), a prominent Australian poet and pioneer in New Literature s studi

As a result of globalization, there are amazing developments and transformation of government and administration systems around the globe. Globalization accelerate structural reforms of the public sector governance through “marketization” of public service delivery to citizens and establish a system of global corporate dependency through “age

To explain the importance of research and publication in the academia, and to outline the ways of writing scholarly articles and getting them published in Scopus or ISI indexed journals. Also to elaborate on why and how single author papers at important in the humanities and the social sciences.INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA KULLIYYAH OF

This thesis is a study on the influence of the Master Chin Kung Model towards the spread and the growth of Amitabha Buddhist Society Malaysia (PPABAM) which has been located in Malaysia. The survey on the influence of the Master Chin Kung Model towards the administration and management of the various activities carried out by PPABAM is comprised of

Mobile and hoc networks (MANETs) have gained significant interest and popularity since they have enormous potential in several fields of applications. Infrastructure-free, self-configuring and mobility are the main reasons behind this popularity. Recently, group-oriented applications over MANET gains high popularity. multicast communication is the

Disparities between services and goods provision have been the concerns of various regional development proponents. Among the gaps that needed to be addressed by regional policies and initiatives were accessibility and mobility levels between urbanites and the rural population. This study reports on the differences of the urban versus rural bus ser

The research explored the effects of 'Community of Inquiry' (COI) method on the elementary school students' speaking skill. The participants comprised of twenty five ESL learners of beginner and pre-intermediate level at a private school in Kuala Lumpur. The sample included four male and three female students in grade five. Qualitative

This research highlights the urban-rural bus services gap in the selected settlements in Peninsular Malaysia. Four states are selected as case studies with Johor to represent the southern states, Penang to represent the northern states and for east-coast states, Pahang is selected. Meanwhile Perak is to represent a still developing state, which is

ARID3A and ARID3B are transcriptional targets of p53. Recently, it has been reported that ARID3A plays a critical role in the transcriptional activation of pro-arrest p21 in response to DNA damage. However, the role of ARID3B in the p53 regulatory pathway remains poorly understood. Here we show that ARID3A and ARID3B specifically bind to putative A