English vs. Bahasa Malaysia A German friend of mine once asked me why I did not use Malay as an every day language when I am Malaysian. What piqued his curiosity was when I had a Malay friend over and both of us had a conversation in flawless English. My German friend could not help but to ask us why the national language was not used. “In Germany‚ everybody speaks German!” he said. And then it hit me‚ that in Thailand‚ locals speak Thai every day on almost every occasion. In Philippines
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MALAYSIA AIRLINE SYSTEM (MAS) Corporate Information Historical evolution Malaysia Airlines had its humble beginning in the golden age of travel. A joint initiative of the Ocean Steamship Company of Liverpool‚ the Straits Steamship of Singapore and Imperial Airways led to a proposal to the government of the Colonial Straits Settlement to run an air service between Penang and Singapore. The result was the incorporation of Malayan Airways Limited (MAL) on 12 October 1937. On 2 April 1947‚ MAL
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Agong in Malaysia who holds the executive power legally. There is also a head of government‚ known as the prime minister which is appointed by Yang di-Pertuan Agong in this system. A prime minister is the eldest minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. He leads the whole executive branch. Besides that‚ there is an upper house and a lower house which has different powers respectively. In Malaysia‚ the upper house of the parliament of Malaysia is known
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Company Perspectives: From a small air service that began with a 5-seater twin engined Airspeed Consul in 1947‚ Malaysia Airlines has grown into an award-winning airline with a fleet of more than 100 aircraft‚ servicing more than 110 destinations across six continents. Today‚ Malaysian Airlines System Berhad is a corporation with a vision of global expansion. The airline’s network will grow extensively in response to consumer demand for worldwide coverage. The airline’s enhanced in-flight services
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The history of radio in Malaysia started in the year 1921. A.L. Birch‚ an electrical engineer from the Johor Government brought the original radio set into the country. (Radio Television Malaysia‚ 2010) Johor Wireless Association was set up and broadcasting through 300 meter waves began. (Radio Television Malaysia‚ 2010) This was then followed by the establishment of the same association in Penang and the Malayan Wireless Association in Kuala Lumpur. Studio of Broadcasting Corporation of Malaya was
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This article examines the direction of ethnic politics in Malaysia by investigating the 2008 election results and the subsequent political maneuverings of political parties following the election. The results do not clearly demonstrate the demise of ethnic politics; however‚ the communal political paradigm of the Barisan Nasional Party (BN) has become increasingly ineffective in its attempts to appease both Malay and non-Malay communities. Following the election‚ the BN seems to have moved towards
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Kuala Lumpur‚ 5 December 2007: Offshore Subsea Works Sdn Bhd has recently achieved a Malaysia Book of Records Feat for the ‘Deepest Saturation Dive’. The dive was carried out by a Malaysian Diver‚ En. Bokhari Sae‚ on 23 July 2007 to a depth of 197 meters at Murphy Oil’s Kikeh Field‚ off Sabah waters. Offshore Subsea Works Sdn Bhd (OSS)‚ a wholly-owned subsidiary of Offshore Works Sdn Bhd‚ was incorporated in September 2002 with the primary goal of pioneering professional underwater services to
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Malaysia Telecom Brief By Ken Zita T he Malaysian government has been heavily engaged Contents in industrial policy for telecom and information Political and Economic Brief 3 technologies. Network services were liberalized in the Economy 3 early 1990s under the nationalistic and closely managed Telecom Policy Environment 5 economic policies of the former Prime Minister‚ Tun Telecom Sector Restructuring 6 Dr.Mahathir Mohamad. Mahatir’s detractors view these MCMC 9 early stages of
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MATRADE and POIC launch Malaysia Exporters of Biomass & Related Services Directory Posted on : 29-05-2013 | By : sabah today | In : News 29th May‚ 2013 KOTA KINABALU: Technology providers for the biomass processing industry? What is lignocellulosic biomass? Biochar? The answers to these questions may be found in a directory launched last week by the Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE) in collaboration with POIC Sabah Sdn Bhd. The “Malaysia Exporters of Biomass &
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NEGOTIATING ETHNIC IDENTITIES - Alcohol as a Social Marker in East and West Malaysia By Timo Kortteinen1 Academy Research Fellow Department of Sociology University of Helsinki Finland The paper will be published in Akademika in 2008. 1 For comments‚ the author can be reached at tkorttei@mappi.helsinki.fi. 2 Abstract From the point of view of alcohol consumption‚ there are two contradicting tendencies in the present-day Malaysian society. On the one hand‚ Western influences‚ including
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