Various regional economic strategies are included in the development plan for the region including the formation of five flagship zones as well as the budget allocation from the federal government as the development incentive. However, impacts from the economic development in contributing towards the social & environment development are questio

Introduction: Acromegaly, primarily due to a growth hormone (GH) producing pituitary macroadenoma may require several modalities of treatment to control the disease. As surgery is curable in about half of the cases, most patients require medical or radiation therapy in addition to surgery. Method: A retrospective descriptive study of acromegaly pat

There is also the problem of confidence for young writers, who could hardly see the value of their writing even in a positive environment. The problem is greatly compounded when the threat of rejection is palpable to them, and when they cannot even properly figure out whether it would be worthwhile to write and publish in English in a country where

Bangladesh witnessed her 10th General Election held on 05 January 2014 with some remarkable incidents such as major political opposition parties did not take part in the polls hence more than 50% candidates of which mostly from the ruling party were elected MPs uncontested; voters turnout was very low - about 22-26% (www.amadershomoy.com); due to a

An interview that investigates my academic publications, translation works and my social and literary outlook in general.In Conversation with Professor Mohammad A . Quayum Md Rezaul Haque Professor Mohammad A . Quayum teaches in the Department of Englis h Language and Literature at International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). A gifted student

There are quite a few anthologies and individual collections of short stories that have come out since the publication of Lloyd Fernando's Twenty-Two Malaysian Short Stories (1968) and MalaysianShort Stories (1981). Some of the early short stories were also published in local journals and magazines, such as LIDRA and Tengarra. Many of these sto

It is true that English writings have made phenomenal advances in many of the postcolonial societies in the last fifty odd years, so much so that Salman Rushdie made the controversial claim that English writing has been more prolific in India in the post-independence period than literature in its sixteen “official languages” and that “'In

In Malaysia, circumstances changed for writers in English at a precipitous rate as they were soon pushed to the margins of national culture. In 1966, Han Suyin optimistically defined Malaysian literature as “those writings (drama, novel, short story, play and verse), which by emotion, identification, description, social context and involvement re

IT is possible that some of the writers who were born in the Malayan territory that now constitutes Malaysia chose to stay back in Singapore after the political separation between the two countries, or later moved to Singapore and other countries, because of the stiff policies on language and literature. Would Catherine Lim or Suchen Christine Lim

Singapore's pragmatic approach towards English has been best summed up by its current Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong, in the following statement: “Our mother tongues carry with them values, ancient cultural heritages and a sense of identity. To lose some of this, because we need to speak English, an international language of business and sci