Lipper's rating and unit trust performance in Malaysia by Abdullah, Ahmad Ridhuwan, Abdullah, Nur Adiana Hiau

“…This study examines the usefulness of rating information supplied by Lipper using a sample of 68 Malaysian unit trusts from December 2000 to November 2010.Four performance measures were used namely the Sharpe ratio, Treynor ratio, Jensen's alpha, and Fama and French 3-factor model.Overall, unit trusts underperformed the market index and risk free rate in 3-year, 5-year, and 10-year investment horizons except for the highest rated funds which were able to provide positive returns.Furthermore, the highest, second to highest and third to highest rated funds significantly outperformed the lowest rated funds especially in a longer investment horizon.This result indicated that Lipper rating system is useful in identifying the lowest to highest performance funds.…”
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Online learning and teaching: Managing the experience of online teaching of English for specific Purposes (ESP) in providing Rich Experiential Active Learning (REAL) for business s... by Mohamed, Abdul Halim, Dzakiria, Hisham, Kasim, Azilah, Yusoff, Nuraini

“…The delining standard of English is obvious at tertiary level in most local federally-funded universities in Malaysia.This worsening condition of the target language among varsity students is quite noticeable.This would definitely bring certain impact on companies' attitudes of hiring today's graduates as they are not competent users of the language.As students need opportunities to practise the target language, the internet use in teaching English for Specific Purpose (ESP) should be encouraged among education providers and educators.The network of networks, the internet, is seen as a new learning tool in providing rich experiential active learning and opportunities to practise the target language.This computer-mediated communication (CMC)tool is versatile not only in assisting them to be competent users but also in providing employable skill for more challenging jobs in the new millennium.As resourceful tool, the Internet can be fully "exploited" in producing graduates who are are are knowledgeable and computer-literate.To be good language learners, the use of online teaching of English can boost students' morale and provide opportunities for them to learn the language integratively.This paper is a small-scale research investigating students' use of a free web-based learning in language teaching.This paper looks at how a group of students develop to become competent users of ESP at Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM).The paper also looks at the perceptions, knowledge and skills of the students involved after getting the exposure of online learning for a semester.The finding indicate that there is a large significant increase of language production, written and spoken language, among students engaging on the use of the language via computers.The study indicated a strong increase between traditional classroom teaching and online teaching.Besides, students' morale and motivation and motivation of learning the language is also discussed as the results of the online learning and teaching of English.…”
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Malaysia's private sector needs to enhance competitiveness to face AFTA by Borneo Post, (KK)

“…SINTOK: Malaysia's private sector has been urged to focus on enhancing competitiveness and venturing into overseas markets with the pending full implementation of the Asean Free Trade Area (AFTA) in 2015. …”
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Building bridges between scholars and the law: A Prerequisite for an innovative society by Hassan, Azmi

“…This can only be achieved if only freedoms of expression are enjoyed by the scholars.This paper will discussed the restrictions and regulations imposed by various regulations, all of which curtail the scope and freedom of research and teaching.Many scholars still shy away from speaking out or approaching government officials to voice their concerned of their area of expertise.…”

Private sector needs to boost competitiveness to face AFTA, says Rafidah by Malaysian, Reserve

“…MALAYSIA'S private sector has been urged to focus on enhancing competitiveness and venturing into overseas markets with the pending full implementation of the Asean Free Trade Area (AFTA) in 2015. …”
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The Japanese production system and its international transferability by Kumon, Hiroshi

“…There are considered to be three production components of the system-shop-floor-centred work organization, waste-free production control, and participative management in the context of cooperative labour relations. …”
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Elevator maintenance and performance in commercial building: Luxury hotel by Mustafa Kamal, Nik Khairul Azim, Abdul Tharim, Asniza Hamimi, Che Ahmad, Asmalia

“…Elevator is a vertical mechanical transportation in the multi storey buildings, which is important for the movement of people and goods quickly and safely.This movement should be quiet, trouble free and economical.The aim of this study focused on elevator maintenance and their performance.Hence, to achieve the aims, the objectives has been set which is to identify the frequency of the maintenance for elevator in luxury hotel building and to analysed the performance of elevator in luxury hotel building.To support this research, three (3) luxury hotel buildings located in Kota Bharu, Kelantan has been taken as a case study and the research methods cover through observation and semi-structure interview. …”

Leisure time use of the youth at Muang in three provinces of Deep South Thailand by Theppaya, Thapanee, Sittichai, Ruthaychonnee

“…The research was conducted with 48 youth from twelve schools in three provinces, aged 15 to 20 years old, moreover, 5 administrators and 7 teachers were also chosen for the interview.It was carried out during January to March 2012.We found that a) most young people spend their free time activities in school which were organized by school and external institutions. b) the youth used public parks in each province to do their activities and meet their friends. c) the municipality is the core to organize the activities for the youth Furthermore, the suggestions from the administrators and the teachers revealed that the unrest in the three southern border provinces made the difficulties to organize activities for the youth, however, the schools tried to promote activities.…”

Internet usage among undergraduate student in Malaysia by Yung, Chiau Sian, Mat Yamin, Fadhilah, Wan Ishak, Wan Hussain

“…Through internet information can be disseminated and retrieve from any location regardless of the political and geographical boundary.The ease of the internet encourages institutions of higher learning to employ the internet to support students' learning.Many studies have been conducted to access students, perception towards the internet usage.This paper aim to re-access the student usage of the internet to support their learning.The assessment is vital in order to understand students' internet usage as different group of student may perceive internet differently.Undergraduate students were chosen as they are among the active group if internet user.The findings show that all students are actively using internet to fulfill their academic requirement and social needs.The findings reflect that most of the undergraduate students pay high responsibility towards the use of internet as this facility is freely provided by their institution of higher learning.…”
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The jurisdiction and power of shariah court in Malaysia: An analysis by Md Dahlan, Nuarrual Hilal

“…However, based on the decisions of several case-law in Malaysia it is found that though the jurisdiction of the Shariah Court is clear on and over the said matters as conferred by the statutory provisions, yet there are certain enumerated matters which are still could not be decided freely and independently by the Shariah Court.These matters instead, have fallen into the realm of the Ordinary Civil Courts.It is contended that,this uncertainty would result in 'chaos' on the Shariah Court's jurisdiction and power to freely determine over its own matters.This phenomenon could shroud in uncertainty over and fetter the exclusiveness and entrenched jurisdictions and powers of the Shariah Court itself, which could even, arguably, reach the pinnacle of neglecting the significant of Article 121(1A)of the FC, in which, this provision has specifically ousted the Ordinary Civil Courts from interfering with the jurisdictions of the Shariah Court over certain exclusive matters.This paper will highlight the issues and will suggest certain measures in order to promote and upgrade the status and due functions of the Shariah Court in Malaysia.…”
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Topology influence on TCP congestion control performance in multi-hop ad hoc wireless by N., Haniza, M.N., Md Khambari, S., Shahrin, Habbal, Adib M. Monzer, Hassan, Suhaidi

“…Wireless ad hoc nodes are freely and dynamically self-organize in communicating with others.Each node can act as host or router.However it actually depends on the capability of nodes in terms of its current power level, signal strength, number of hops, routing protocol, interference and others.In this research, a study was conducted to observe the effect of hops count over different network topologies that contribute to TCP Congestion Control performance degradation.To achieve this objective, a simulation using NS-2 with different topologies have been evaluated.The comparative analysis has been discussed based on standard observation metrics: throughput, delay and packet loss ratio.As a result, there is a relationship between types of topology and hops counts towards the performance of ad hoc network.In future, the extension study will be carried out to investigate the effect of different error rate and background traffic over same topologies.…”
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Agency cost and long run performance of debt issuers by Ibrahim, Yusnidah, Uddin, Md Mohan, Taufil Mohd, Kamarun Nisham, Minai, Mohd Sobri

“…This study focuses on the agency costsexplanation of long run performance of debt issuers based on debt issuance data in Malaysia during January 2001 to October 2009.Long run performance is measured (BHAR) while growth opportunity (GO), ownership concentration (OC) and free cash flow (FCF) are adopted as the proxy for agency costs.Using linear regression method, the study finds that BHAR is positively influenced by GO and OC and negatively influenced by FCF which support the agency cost explanation of capital structure. …”
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The development of the law of the sea in relation to Malaysia by M. Yatim, Zakaria

“…Freedom of the seas existed during the Melaka Sultanate. …”
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Usefulness of cash flow in business decision making by Amran, Noor Afza, Ali Abdi, AbdiNassir

“…This research examines the relationship between future cash flows with earnings, dividend per share, depreciation, and capital expenditures.Using a sample of 100 companies listed on Bursa Malaysia between 2005 until 2010, this study applies ordinary least squares and fixed-effects method to estimate the regression model.Findings reveal that Earnings before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortisation (EBITDA), Capital Expenditure and Depreciation significantly influence the Free Cash Flow.EBITDA and Capital Expenditure has shown positive relationship with free cash flow, but Depreciation reflects a negative relationship with free cash flow.These findings may provide useful information to investors and businessmen on how to plan and manage the cash flow.…”
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Wakaf: Conflict of jurisdiction between civil and syariah courts in Malaysia by Md Dahlan, Nuarrual Hilal, Megat Latif, Hairuddin

“…This paper intends to study the decided cases involving wakaf since the inclusion of sub clause 1A to article 121 of the FC, which has bestowed upon the syariah courts, exclusive and unfettered jurisdiction and power to adjudicate and determine their own matters as provided in the said provisions and to identify the real legal and jurisprudential issues, causes and stumbling blocks which have hitherto barred the syariah courts from having the freedom and ability to decide on wakaf and further to give suggestion and solution in the problem of conflict of jurisdiction of between these courts, civil and syariah, in matters pertaining to the same. …”
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Religious liberalism in sisters in Islam discourse: An analysis on identification by Nordin, Munif Zariruddin Fikri, Abdullah, Suhanim, Mansor, Marzalina

“…The research is based on textual analysis.It main focus is to analyse religious discourse and after that explain, interpret and discuss the elements of religious liberalism in SIS Discourse.The texts that have been analysed are articles on Islamic laws, feminism and individual freedom written by SIS in Malay Language from 2006-2009.The texts had been analysed using ahsan al-qawl (selection of the best words) approach.The results show that there are characteristics of religious liberalism in the identification of SIS such as to uphold liberalism, to struggle for thought reformation, to criticize syariah laws, to criticize fatwa, to urge for laws reformation and to fight for freedom of speech.The result helps to increase the understanding among muslim about the dangerous of religious liberalism in SIS Discourse.…”
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Agency costs and the long-run performance of debt issuers by Ibrahim, Yusnidah, Uddin, Md Mohan, Taufil Mohd, Kamarun Nisham, Minai, Mohd Sobri

“…This study focuses on an agency cost explanation of the long-run performance of debt issuers based on debt issuance data in Malaysia during the period from January 2001 to October 2009.Long-run performance is measured by buy and hold abnormal return (BHAR),while growth opportunities(GO), managerial ownership (MO), ownership concentration (OC) and free cash flow (FCF) are adopted as proxies for agency costs.Using a linear regression method, this study finds that BHAR is positively influenced by GO and OC but negatively influenced by MO and FCF, which supports an agency cost explanation of capital structure.An improvement in the performance of debt issuers is found to be associated with the monitoring of debt by debt issuers. …”
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Long run performance of Islamic debt issue: Role of the agency environment by Ibrahim, Yusnidah, Uddin, Md Mohan, Minai, Mohd Sobri

“…Results indicate that the long run buy and hold abnormal return in two and three year period following Islamic debt issues is positive.This study finds that growth opportunity and free cash flow significantly influence the long run performance of the Islamic debt issuer, depending on the degree of capital structure change.…”
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Legal principles and judicial decisions on environments in Malaysia: An overview by Md Dahlan, Nuarrual Hilal, Kamaruddin, Abdul Rani

“…Long time ago, people only tended to lay emphasize on the satisfaction of their basic and personal human right, which would include foods, lodging, raiment as well as other simple constitutional rights such as freedom of speech etc.But now it evinces that, environmental safety and health right, though at the first glance and at the outset, seems only a peripheral right, it has become overwhelming and expedient to human life, that should be reckoned with.In respect of the law, it is manifestly clear that it could lend its aids protecting mankind against any adverse environmental wrongdoings.These would include providing legal remedies such as injunctions, damages, compensation or even imposition of criminal penalties against the defendants/perpetrators. …”
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Uphold our charter, says king: RESPECT LAWS: Ruler urges Malaysians not to undermine peace, harmony by Tiong, John

“…Although Islam is the official religion of the federation, he said the Constitution also provides freedom for non-Muslims to practise their religious faiths."…”
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