The purpose of this paper is to explore empirically the effects of the current financial crisis on the integration and co-movements of selected stock markets of the emerging economies, namely Indonesia and Malaysia.Impact of the 2007 US financial crisis on the emerging equity markets M. Shabri Abd Majid and Salina Hj Kassim Department of Economics

Introduction: In an article on the position of the poet in society, Kenneth Rexroth argued that Plato's disfavour of poets was not early but late since criticism and rejection of poets had been going on since the time of ancient Egypt and Babylon. While the debate continues and has possibly taken a new turn to asking how effective poetry is tod

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ISLAM tidak menghapuskan sistem beraja tetapi mengintegrasikannya kepada satu sistem yang lebih komprenhensif dan praktikal.Unsur-unsur khurafat yang diamalkan oleh golongan-golongan bangsawan sebelum kehadiran islam telah dihapuskanWACANA ISLAM Kekalkan institusi simbol kedaulatan agama bangsa DR SAODAH ABD RAHMAN ISLAM tidak menghapuskan sistem b

Kemunduran dan kemiskinan sering dikaitkan dengan negara-negara Islam. Begitu juga penindasan dan kezaliman dilakukan sewenang-wenangnya terhadap umat Islam hari ini. Malah, terdapat pelbagai perancangan untuk menghapuskan kebangkitan tamadun Islam. Sampai bilakah kita akan berputih mata menyaksikan senario ini berterusan? Bertitik tolak dari sinil

Introduction: Malaysia, which achieved its independence in 1957, has undergone incredible socio-economic changes that have brought about wealth to its citizens. The growth and development of the Malaysian economy can largely be attributed to the success of the Malaysian education system which has seen literacy rate increases from 80 per cent for me

The doctrine of lifting of corporate veil is a legal principle applied by the court to set aside the separate legal entity of a company in order to discover the truth behind the veil of corporation. Despite its frequent use, the doctrine of lifting the corporate veil is only applied by the court under justified circumstances, for example when physi

This paper examines productivity change of Islamic banks in Malaysiaduring the period 2006 to 2008. The data includes a panel of 12 Islamic banks and the productivity of each bank is analysed using the non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method or the intermediation approach. In the DEA technique, efficiency is measured by the Malmquist

One of the issues in child’s maintenance is the maximum age of a child in which a father is still responsible over the maintenance. Under the Civil law, there is no provision which requires the parent to provide maintenance if the child is pursuing his/her tertiary education. The Islamic Family law provides eighteen years old as the maximum age f