DR MOHD SAFAR HASIM

From UKM News Portal UESDAY, 05 FEBRUARY 2013 12:34     By Saiful Bahri Kamaruddin Pix Shahiddan Saidi Kuala Lumpur, 30 Jan 2013 – Malaysia’s goal of achieving a high-income status by the year 2020 is realistic given the policies that the government had introduced and the country’s stability. Renowned Norwegian economic researcher, Professor Dr Erik S. Reinert said a nation's economy cannot primarily bejudged on its export performance but must also be based on the standard of living of its inhabitants.In Malaysia this is being continuously improved upon by the government.

From UKM News Portal WEDNESDAY, 06 FEBRUARY 2013 09:09 By Saiful Bahri Kamaruddin Pix Shahiddan Saidi KUALA SELANGOR, 2 Feb 2013 – The National University of Malaysia (UKM) has initiated strategic collaboration with the Malaysian Nature Society (MNS) in a wetlands and water conservation programme called SEE Nature. Some 200 school children volunteered in the SEE Natureprogramme launched by UKM’s Deputy Vice Chancellor (Industry & Community Partnerships), Profesor Dato’ Dr Saran Kaur Gill at the Kuala Selangor Nature Park herein conjunction with the World Wetlands Day (WWD)today. This year's WWD celebration at the Nature Park was supported by the Ministry of Higher Education, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, the Kuala Selangor District Council and corporations such as HSBC and Ricoh. Prof Saran said she was heartened to see youths take part in the programme that will help them acquire skills for their future careers. T...

  From UK M N ews Portal   One hundred Mexican undergraduates coming under UKM’s mobility programme  By Mohd Safar Hasim Pix Courtesy of Melinio.com   BANGI, 25 Jan 2013 – One hundred Mexican undergraduate students are coming to Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia this year to join UKM’s mobility programme, the largest group to take part in the programme so far.   All the students will come from various universities in The State of Mexico, a state in the Mexican Republic, which signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on 21 January 2013 in Toluca, the capital city of the State. Malaysian ambassador to Mexico, Dato’ Jamaiyah Mohd Yusof and Governor of the State of Mexico, Dr Eruviel Avila Villegas witnessed the signing. The students will be attending short courses in and outside the campus. This is the largest number of students coming from the State of Mexico. In the past they came in small groups of four students. The students are c...

 From UKM News Portal Malaysia’s Civil Laws Are Already 90% Syariah Compliant, Former Chief Justice Tun Abdul Hamid Mohamed Says By Saiful Bahri Kamaruddin Pix Danial Norizzat BANGI, 31 Jan 2013 – Malaysian Civil Laws are already 90% Syariah compliant and have been proven suitable for all. Former Chief Justice of Malaysia and Adjunct Professor Tun Abdul Hamid Mohamad said this proves that Syariah law is compatible with a modern pluralistic society despite the fact that few people are even aware of it. Compliance of the civil laws with the Syariah include regulations for commercial financial institutions, Tun Abdul Hamid said in his public lecture on ‘Harmonising Laws In the Islamic Finance Banking System’ at The National University of Malaysia (UKM) campus here today. The lecture was organised by the Institute of Islam Hadhari (HADARI) of UKM. Tun Hamid said while there were many similarities between the two systems, the streamlining of Civil ...