2011 Copyright © IIUM Press ISSN 0128-4878 Book Reviews Malaysia’s foreign policy‚ the first fifty years: Alignment‚ neutralism‚ Islamism. By Johan Saravanamuttu. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies‚ ISEAS‚ 2010‚ pp. 388. ISBN: 978-9814279-78-9 Reviewer: Abdul Rashid Moten‚ Department of Political Science‚ International Islamic University Malaysia. E-mail: rashidm@iium.edu.my Malaysia’s foreign policy is very much under-studied. Nevertheless‚ there exist several scholarly
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The two main points that are dealt with in the foreign assistance program are economic and development assistance as well as security assistance. Foreign economic and development assistance provides an impoverished nation with funds and teams devoted to stabilize the economy of the specific country. This is important because if an economy is stabilized
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Introduction Countless Filipinos often appreciate foreign movies rather than be pleased about our own local works. Foreign film is not only foreign in terms of the country of production‚ but also in terms of the language used. We can see in our entertainment industry that art pieces from other countries are much preferable. As we all know‚ foreign movies are so popular here in our country‚ Filipino nowadays are getting interested in foreign films because stories were usually based from bestselling
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How Sport is a Producer and Product of My Society? Throughout the past severalweeks‚ many ideas have been presented about how sport is producer and product of society. I agree with all the ideas presented in thisclass. I believe the sport is the producer and product of society because of how sport can be influence on everything that surrounds it. Every aspect of our society is affected by sport. Our race affects the amount of sport that we are exposed to. Our social class limits our availability
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freshmen must have taken at least two years of a foreign language on the high school level before graduation. Directions: Think about the advantages and disadvantages of taking two years of a foreign language in high school. Prompt: Write an essay to convince a university or college whether or not two years of a foreign language be a requirement for high school. Many colleges now require that students have taken at least two years of the foreign language in order to be admitted. Language is
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Australia’s foreign debt In recent years‚ Australia’s debt to the rest of the world has increased‚ and grew on average by 6.1% per year between June 1999 and June 2009‚ increasing from $15‚400 to $27‚900 in 2007-08. The growth in a country’s foreign debt can reflect several related influences. The value of its imports and other current payments to foreigners may exceed the value of its exports and other current receipts from foreigners‚ is this is the case then the nation experiences a deficit
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Choose a consumer product or service that is on the market today‚ but is declining in appeal to consumers. This product should be marked for “obsolesces”. Discuss this product or service in terms of its current target demographics using U.S. Census Data. The product I choose to discuss is desktop computers‚ also known as personal computers. A desktop computer is intended for regular individual use at a single location. Desktop computers have been around since 1977. “Derived from the development
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the demand for online videos and accessibility to televisions on the internet increases‚ many device makers are entering into the market for over-the-top video streaming devices that are able to beam internet video to the current big TV screens being used today (Mathieson 2010). Even after struggling to use various marketing strategies in order to attain large market share‚ Chromecast seems to be used less and less in home entertainment. The reason for this is probably the emergence of competing
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Global Studies April 2012 Foreign Aid Foreign aid can be a wise investment as well as it can be a waste of money. The success of foreign aid depends on how it is used. As Kristof explains‚ foreign aid often lacks effectiveness‚ and depends on additional factors‚ such as governance. If money is just given to the governments of poor countries‚ chances are that it will be used “corruptly‚ ineffectively‚ and wastefully” (Kristof‚ 2006). A large sum of money alone cannot solve problems that stem
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A foreign language is a language indigenous to another country. It is also a language not spoken in the native country of the person referred to‚ i.e. an English speaker living in Japan can say that Japanese is a foreign language to him or her. These two characterisations do not exhaust the possible definitions‚ however‚ and the label is occasionally applied in ways that are variously misleading or factually inaccurate. Some children learn more than one language from birth or from a very young
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