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Salams from Jakarta, Indonesia on the Day of the Bombs
View of Jakarta from Masjid Albina. Photo Nadge
Glad to visit Inst. Teknologi Bandung, and famed Aula buildings of 'Indies' Nusantara inspiration.
Masjid Salman, named by Pres.Sukarno after the Prophet's sahabah S. Al-Farisi Photo by Nadge
Matrade “Malaysia 50 Years Economic Transformation” Exhibition
Held at the Matrade Exhibition Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Nov-Dec 2007 in conjunction with Malaysia’s 50th celebration of Independence
Malaysia is internationally regarded as one of the world’s most successful developing nations, having risen from a poor backwater ‘Third World’ country relying on raw commodities to currently one of the Top 20 trading nations with a remarkably diversified economy that has embraced globalisation while retaining its independent control.
It is indeed an example of a national economic transformation that has pulled the country away from poverty and potential strife and brought itself to an enviable level of peace, progress and prosperity. Much can be learnt from Malaysia’s 50-year experience in sustainable economic development.
This Exhibition documented the 50 years of Malaysia’s economic transformation and achievements for all to learn and appreciate.
Malaysian boy Ahmad Naeim running past the poster that starts the section on Malaysia’s professional services sectors from Construction to Oil & Gas, from ICT to Tourism management and other services.
NADGE is proud to have been engaged to provide the bulk of the research and writing as well as English-Bahasa Malaysia translations of all the Exhibition’s written material.
Deepa-Raya and Malay-Indian History
[This article by A. Najib Ariffin appeared in Kuala Lumpur's YellowPost, November 2007]
Soon after Hari Raya Puasa, we have Deepavali. For the past few years this holiday season has been a special convergence – Deepavali & Aidil Fitri just weeks apart! This timing happens every about 30-odd years… Some of us may not be alive to see the next convergence (although I hope we all do, with fulfilled long lives); so let’s make the best of it. Forget the narrow-minded ones, and look broadly.
Kerjaya membawa Pelancong
Kursus Pemandu Pelancong (Tourist Guide Course) – oleh A. Najib Ariffin
Masih tak disedari oleh ramai dalam masyarakat, tapi Pelancongan (Tourism) merupakan industri penting dan kedua terbesar dalam ekonomi Malaysia, dan bidang ini berpotensi sebagai punca rezeki yang baik.
Pemanduan warisan (heritage guiding) khusus oleh Nadge selain ceramah & bengkel bahasa.
Nadge terlibat dan memberi nasihat. More »
Tags: bahasa, Inggeris, Itali, Jurulancong, kemahiran, kursus, Malaysia, pelancongan, Pemandu Pelancong, Perancis, Sepanyol, Tourist Guide
The Smart Ticket that shows you where you need to go
A brilliant new technology from Malaysia winds up elsewhere.
Feature Story by Elián E. González , www.donquijote.org/spanishlanguage/press
The little card actually lit up, indicating a direction to follow. “Ya, just follow the light on the card,” said Hazrein Yong Abdullah, as we started walking along the cavernous main hall of Kuala Lumpur’s new train hub in search of our platform. Hazrein, a nerdily bespectacled but tall broad-shouldered chap, is a free-lance mechatronics engineer. He and a group of pals have spent two years and cobbled together “all their savings” to do intensive research and come up with a ‘mass device’ that can help to show you the way to your platform, boarding gate or other destination, and more. More »
The East Timor Conflict
Understanding its Malaysian implications
This analysis was written at the height of the East Timor conflict in 1999, when the writer was an invited Malaysian Studies course lecturer at UNITAR (Universiti Tun Abdul Razak). It was published in the New Straits Times as a main feature, and was praised as a ‘masterly analysis’ by Dr. Kassim Ahmad in his commentary article a week later. This also led to a Guest Speaker invitation on the subject at MCOBA’s monthly Wednesday lunch-lecture.
Taking up half of an island barely a quarter the size of Peninsular Malaysia and located far off in south-eastern Indonesia, East Timor has been embroiled in conflicts whose seeds can be traced back to an event on the Malay Peninsula long ago on 30th August 1511.
