This study is an early observation in the period of two months from the perspective of a Malay Muslim who has never been to New Zealand. The topic is related to the discipline of architecture as well as landscape architecture. It suggests the link between plant species, fern, with the cultural habits and values of Polynesian communities in New Zeal

Recently, Malaysia has adopted the “Safe city programme” launched by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, with the cooperation of the Federal Department of Town and Country Planning (2005), which is focused towards achieving four objectives, the most important of which is creating cities free from violence and crime. So far studies hav

This research looks into the potential to promote Brunei as a predominantly Muslim country, as a special area for tourist attractions such as the landscape tourism niche. Among them is Kampung Air (the water village), the flora and fauna. The research will review case studies from all over the world including Jeju Island, South Korea. This research

Researches concerning antioxidants are extensively studied nowadays. Antioxidants are well known to be associated with reduction in cancer incidence since they act against deteriorative effects of free radicals. These antioxidants include the yellow-to-red coloured pigments known as carotenoids, are essential for betterment in human immunity. Carot

Property crimes in residential areas has become a concerning issue in Malaysia. Environmental design based crime prevention theories such as Defensible Space, Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) and 2nd generation CPTED recommend to construct gates and fences as target hardening measures in the residential areas to prevent crimes.

During the last two decades, the growth of condos in Kuala Lumpur as a high density housing is a respose to the growing demand for housing in the city. So far housing research in Malaysia is focussed on public or private low-cost with little attention paid to the growing condo sector. Therefore, a research need arises due to limited studies on the

In Malaysia, low-cost housing is usually provided through both the public and private sectors. Public sector provisions are mostly concentrated in large urban centres such as Kuala Lumpur, George Town, and in the rural areas as well, while private sector operates in both urban and suburban areas. Recently, the Selangor Zakat Board (SZB) has started

There is an increasing interest on the issue of corporate responsibility and what is the role of corporate law and directors’ duties in ensuring companies adopt responsible business practices. This article reviews the reasons why focusing on director’s duties provisions to ensure that corporations adopt and implement socially responsible busine

Video streaming is becoming increasingly popular among the wireless users. However, supporting video streaming over the wireless networks is not an easy task due to the dynamic radio propagation environment, limited radio resources as well as Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of the video streaming that need to be satisfied at acceptable levels

The objective of this present theoretical paper is to provide an explanation on social psychology from Islamic perspective. The paper firstly discussed in general an overview of social affection, behaviour and cognition from Islamic point of view. Secondly, contemporary theories in social psychology were evaluated from both scientific and Islamic p