NMF Live Blogging

Northeast Malaysia Forum starting!

Nithiya apologizes for the delay in starting and briefs on the objectives of NMF!


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Northeast Malaysia Forum goes live

Northeast Malaysia Forum is starting very very soon!

For the viewing, go to http://www.revision2020.org/

For comments, go to http://www.scribblelive.com/event/nmf_2009

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Education For All (http://www.edforall.net)

Thanks Krista for sharing this site with me.

 

This site is actually created by a Malaysian alumnus of MIT, WT Tan.

 

http://www.edforall.net

 

It is a very good way to learn online!

 

Do check it out!

 

 

Malaysia International Youth Programme "Crime Free Generation" on 12th - 17th May 2009 in Kuala Lumpur

Thanks Adriene Leong for the info. This youth exchange programme is organized by Adriene's friends. Food and accomodation is free, as well as no registration fee.

 

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Malaysia International Youth Programme "Crime Free Generation" on 12th - 17th May 2009 in Kuala Lumpur

 http://myiyp.blogspot.com/

INTRODUCTION

The Ministry of Youth and Sports, Malaysia in collaboration with the SSEAYP International Malaysia (KABESA) will be organising the Malaysian International Youth Programme with the theme "Crime Free Generation" on 12 – 17 May, 2009 in Kuala Lumpur. It is in conjunction with the 41st National Youth Day, in Malaysia.

The programme is organised to foster the development of values and attitudes such as responsibility, and also enhance teaching and learning of other value-orientated studies such as life education, effective education, and environmental education, where the information, conclusions or recommendations are to be shared among the member countries.

It is hoped that this programme will promote good spirit amongst the youth to create a "Culture of Safety" in the neighbourhoods, build partnerships among police force, nonprofits organisation, and city and community leaders. It is also to have better understanding to the threat posed by any forms of crime. Details of the programme and the registration forms are attached.

The main objective of this programme is to allow youth leaders to meet, discuss and ascertain solutions to any forms of crime as well as allowing them to identify real issues on the ground. This will allow the youth to have their voices heard by global decision makers in promoting a crime free generation, thus contributing towards achieving global peace, stability and harmony, and provide an opportunity for the participants to strengthen cooperation and enhance networking amongst them.

The programme will be an excellent platform in allowing the voices of youth against crime to be heard and given due recognition by the international and regional bodies as well as national authorities.


PARTICIPANTS

A total of 120 participants from 17 countries are expected for the programme representing young politicians, student leaders, community youth leaders and young leaders of the NGOs. They are generally expected to come from Asean + 3 and Commonwealth countries. Each respective country required to send 7 participants + 1 national leader. The age range for the participants should be between 17 years – 30 years and National Leader must be below 45 years old.


THEME

The theme of the Conference will be "CRIME FREE GENERATION"

LANGUAGE

English will be the main language of the programme.

PROGRAMME

The 6 days programme is expected to be officiate by the Hon. Minister Youth and Sports of Malaysia and will be divided into two (2) sessions focusing on the following topics:

1. Global Crime Involving Juvenile

2. Managing Criminal Issues amongst Juvenile towards Crime Free Generation.

Paper presenters at the conference will be international experts with vast experience in the field of crime from Malaysia. Following the plenary sessions, participants will be divided into working groups to come out with recommendations stating the youth's stand against crime which can serve as input in the campaign against crime by the international organizations as well as national governments.

PERFORMANCES

Participants from each country are required to prepare traditional cultural performances between 3 - 5 minutes with the objective to promote their country culture. The performances will be presented during the 41st National Youth Day Celebration in Melaka known as Historical City. The equipment for cultural performances will be prepared by the participants itself.

EXHIBITION

Each participating country required to prepare exhibition materials to introduce their presented country. Size for the booth is 3 Meter x 3 Meter. The MIYP Secretariat will provide 1 table and 2 chairs for each booth.

COMMUNITY INTERACTION

During this programme, participants will experience 1 day interaction with their local foster family in Melaka.

SOUVENIER AND GIFT

Each participant is encouraged to bring 1 official gift and souvenirs as courtesy during interaction programme.


TOUR AND VISITS

A guided tour to various interesting places will also be arranged for the participants to catch a glimpse of Malaysia.

CONTACT PERSON – MIYP SECRETARIAT

Mr. Mod Nadzri Yaacob - +6013 347 9063

Khairul Annuar Mansor - +6019 2602964

Link from Kevin Sim, U.S. Applications Expert

Some of you who were at USA For Students at Wisma MCA in June 2008 or at Discover U.S. Education at MidValley in July 2007, would have heard from Kevin Sim. He is the resident counselor for US Universities admission at Raffles Junior College, Singapore.

Below is the link of his blog, specifically on the U.S. applications - www.milkoracle.blogspot.com .

Waubebas Newsletter

Waubebas Newsletter

Isu 5, April 2009

Akademi Merdeka Mei 2009: Kemuliaan sifat keusahawanan dan kapitalisme: Pengajaran daripada buku Atlas Shrugged oleh Ayn Rand

 Hotel Bayview, Pulau Pinang 1-3 Mei 2009 Malaysia Think Tank kini membuka permohonan untuk menghadiri Akademi Merdeka kali ketiga. Akademi Merdeka kali ini akan mengkaji idea-idea berkaitan sifat keusahawanan dan kapitalisme yang diutarakan oleh buku Atlas Shrugged, dan meneliti aplikasinya pada masa sekarang. Read more

We Will Hold G20 To Account

 The Freedom to Trade Coalition � comprising over 60 civil society organisations from 44 countries including the Malaysia Think Tank � launched an open letter calling on all governments to eliminate trade barriers. The open letter is available at a new website supported by the Malaysia Think Tank � www.freedomtotrade.org � which will feature news stories, exclusive webcasts, statements by signatories of the open letter, and many other items. Read more

Palestin: Bebaskan perdagangan untuk mencapai keamanan

Wan Saiful Wan Jan

 Tun Mahathir memberikan dua ucapan penting di kota London minggu ini. Pada 1 April beliau berucap di Royal Commonwealth Society mengenai agenda alternatif kumpulan G20. Tetapi tujuan utama beliau datang ke kota London ialah untuk menyampaikan ucap utama dalam satu persidangan mengenai Gaza yang dianjurkan oleh Yayasan Kuala Lumpur pada 31 Mac. Tun Mahathir merupakan pengasas dan pengerusi Yayasan Kuala Lumpur. Read more

Perlindungan pemilikan harta perlu bagi membasi kemiskinan

Wan Saiful Wan Jan

 Usaha membasmi kemiskinan di Malaysia hanya akan berjaya jika kita memperkukuhkan sistem untuk melindungi pemilikan harta fizikal dan intelektual. Para pembuat dasar, terutama di Kementerian Kemajuan Luar Bandar dan Wilayah, serta pemimpin politik negara perlu memberi perhatian kepada perkara ini. Mereka perlu memastikan perlidungan pemilikan harta dijadikan elemen utama strategi pembasmian kemiskinan negara kita. Read more

Globalisasi Memperkaya Budaya

Noor Amin bin Ahmad

 Istilah globalisasi selama ini banyak merujuk kepada maksud dunia tanpa sempadan di mana ia dijelmakan melalui revolusi maklumat dengan kewujudan teknologi internet khususnya. Dalam banyak wacana, globalisasi sering dipersalahkan kerana ia kononnya menghakis nilai budaya masyarakat. Saya beranggapan tuduhan ini bersifat separuh masak. Read more

Isu-Isu Lain The democracy of a constitutional monarchy Protectionism: alluring but deadly How to make depression great

The Waubebas Newsletter is a free newsletter produced by the Malaysia Think Tank (www.WauBebas.org). For more information about the newsletter and our organization, please visit our website.

NMF 2009 Framework

We still have a lot of spaces for Northeast Malaysia Forum in KL. Do turn up tonight (Sat 11th April) 8pm at Studio V, 1 Utama. It is next to rainforest, and just ask for the Star Studio. It is next to Cravings restaurant.

 

Do show up! And participate!

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Hi everyone!

This is an overview of what NMF 2009 will be like, the framework etc. that will enable you to further understand what this year's discussions will be structured around. Please read this thoroughly in order to ensure that discussions will be held effectively.

Once again, welcome to NMF 2009, wherever you are! We look forward to a fun and exciting weekend ahead.

Cheers,

Carol Yong

Organizing Committee, Northeast Malaysia Forum 2009

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NMF 2009 Framework:

Revision 2020: Malaysia 2.0
A. PREMISE: What we believe

• A common vision at the mindset level is the key to our unity and our realizing the future we want. 

B. OBJECTIVES: What we seek to achieve

• To collectively discover and map out a "Malaysia 2.0" mindset.
• To envision and exemplify that mindset throughout the forum.

C. FRAMEWORK: Guidelines for discussion
I. Spirit of discussion: We envision a discourse characterized by engaging dialogue, empathetic understanding and effective agreement culminating in action.

II. Focus of discussion: Three words – tangible personal vision. In deciding how to approach a particular topic, we aim to choose according to the following three criteria:

a. Tangible. We aim to focus on approaches that are readily actionable, as opposed to "if only" solutions that are heavily contingent on external circumstance. 
b. Personal. As opposed to institutional. We aim, as far as possible, to ask of every issue what it means to the single individual, and what appropriate response one may muster, in thought or deed. 
c. Vision. Normative, not positive. In the spirit of visioneering, we aim to be especially mindful of what might –and should – be, instead of debating the finer points of present-day events and policies.

Global forum recap:

Global forum in 3 parts: 1. Global discussion, 2. Local working groups, 3. VisionWiki collaborators

1. Global discussion

• Global forums can tune in to ongoing live discussions, and will contribute by way of ScribbleLive, questions and comments (chat is for misc. conversation, i.e., what you would not want to save as part of the speaker-related discussion)
• The ScribbleLive will be projected, along with the video, the chat will not be.

2. Local working groups

• Global forums will be able to organize their own working groups, similar to those that will be run in New Haven, and on similar topics (all focused on the Revision 2020 theme). We will base these working groups around live GoogleDocs, to be hosted on docs.revision2020.org. These documents will be open to all NMFers, global and local, so that anyone can contribute to any other discussion. When complete, they can readily be published, so that we can easily collect and consolidate them as the first incarnation of our VisionWiki

3. VisionWiki collaborators

• The Global Forums will be part of the same theme and vision, and by being part of the same discussion (#1) and going through the same discussion/working group procedure (#2), we hope that they will be invaluable collaborators with us in producing the same global VisionWiki, which we hope to publish at revision2020.org, as a basis for further discussion/action growing out of the Forum

#1 and #3 are fairly straightforward, since everyone will be on the same page (literally)

As for #2, here's the vision for how we intend to structure these discussions in a Malaysia 2.0 way:

As part of our vision on conducting discussion in a new way (engaging dialogue, empathetic understanding, effective agreement + action), we're trying to develop a method for facilitating discussion that is similarly minded in letting people make the most of discussion from the bottom-up instead of dictating it from the top-down

We're going to be trying out the ideas of Open Space Technology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology) which, essentially, allow participants the freedom to:

(a) choose topics that engage them (under the umbrella of an overarching theme and with a specific intent in mind)

(b) lead the discussion on these topics independently

(c) start new discussions and move to other groups at any time they wish

The way this will work at NMF, and perhaps similarly at the global forums

• Discussion starts by going over a few ground rules (choose your own topics, you are free to move around at any time if you feel that you are not learning/contributing, what we hope each group/discussion to achieve, etc.) with everyone involved
• After that, people submit topics of their own and announce them (they can do this by posting topics on a board or just sitting in groups with signs, etc.) and get to work in discussion and drawing up frameworks, exploring topics etc. 

Basically, the people control the discussion, in line with the ground rules and overarching vision

Everyone is encouraged, as far as possible, to note their progress on the Google Docs area by creating a new doc for every group, and monitoring the current Documents so as to learn from / contribute to existing dicussions as much as possible

The intent is that anyone who just steps into the discussion, e.g. a Global Forum that just assembled, can log onto the Google Docs page and immediately get an idea of all ongoing discussions and allocate themselves accordingly.

As these Docs develop, the soft deadline we have in mind for this present forum is Sunday morning, when all groups will hopefully be able to present their discussions/conclusions/recommendations for each topic during the session (in person, over Skype, via text, etc.). By the end of the forum on Sunday, we hope to have a good base from which to compile version 1.0 of the VisionWiki.

And speaking of the VisionWiki, here's the fundamental question we intend it to ask (and attempt to answer), the question that we hope all the group discussions will be geared towards addressing: 

What is the mindset of Malaysia 2.0? As a developed country - economically, psychologically, spiritually, culturally, politically, scientifically, civilly - what is the way we would, and perhaps should, be thinking?

Some hopefully helpful guidelines:

We encourage the discussions to focus on:

1. Individual attitudes instead of institutional structures
2. The normative vision of how we should think instead of the positive/descriptive reality of how our mindsets are as Malaysians, and
3. Tangible differences in attitude that readily translate into local action instead of "If Only" wishful thinking on a purely idealistic level that stop at dreaming.

Invitation to Public Lecture "Managing a World Heritage Site : Lessons from Edinburgh"

Managing a World Heritage Site: Lessons from Edinburgh

Khazanah Nasional and the British Council will be launching "RE-George Town: The Making of a Creative Heritage City," a series of public lectures and knowledge sharing sessions with UK experts in various aspects of creative city making.

Wawasan Open University is pleased to invite you to attend this free public lecture, featuring Adam Wilkinson, Director of the Edinburgh World Heritage Trust, who will deliver a talk entitled "Managing a World Heritage Site: Lessons from Edinburgh".


Date:  Saturday, 11 April 2009
Time:  10:00am - 12:00pm 
Venue: Lecture Theatre 2
            Wawasan Open University
            54, Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah
            10050 Penang

Wilkinson holds an MA in Mediaeval History and Russian Language and an MSc in Historic Conservation. He brings a broad knowledge of UK conservation policy and architectural history, and an understanding of the international preservation scene through his previous roles as Secretary of the campaigning charity SAVE Britain's Heritage and its sister organisation SAVE Europe's Heritage. Prior to this, he worked for a short stint in Paris for UNESCO's Division of Cultural Heritage.

For details, contact Khazanah at 04-222 6816.

Admission is free. All are welcome.

List of Cabinet of Ministers and Deputy Ministers of Malaysia

List of Cabinet of Ministers and Deputy Ministers of Malaysia, as posted by http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/102006 

 

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FULL LIST

Prime Minister

Najib Abdul Razak

Deputy Prime Minister

Muhyiddin Yassin

Ministers in the Prime Minister's Department

Dr Koh Tsu Koon - Unity Affairs and Performance Management

Nazri Abdul Aziz - Minister in charge of law and Parliament

Nor Mohamed Yaakop - Economic Planning Unit

Major Gen Jamil Khir Baharom - Islamic Affairs

Deputies: Liew Vui Keong, senator Dr Mashitah Ibrahim, SK Devamany, Ahmad Maslan and senator T Murugiah

Finance Ministry

Najib Abdul Razak (1)
Ahmad Husni Hanadzlan (2)

Deputies: Chor Chee Heong, senator Dr Awang Adek Hussien

Education Ministry

Muhyiddin Yassin

Deputy: Wee Ka Siong, Puad Zarkashi

Transport Ministry

Ong Tee Keat

Deputies: Abdul Rahim Bakri, Robert Lau Hoi Chew

Agricultural Development and Commodities

Bernard Dompok

Deputy: Hamzah Zainuddin

Home Affairs

Hishammuddin Hussien

Deputies: Abu Seman Yusop, Jelaing Mersat

Information, Communication, Arts and Culture

Rais Yatim

Deputies: Joseph Salang Gandum, senator Heng Seai Kie

Energy, Green Technology and Water

Peter Chin Fah Kui

Deputy: Noriah Kasnon

Rural Development and Territories

Shafie Apdal

Deputies: Hassan Malek, Joseph Entulu Belaun

Higher Education

Khaled Nordin

Deputies: Dr Hou Kok Chung, Saifuddin Abdullah

International Trade and Industry

Mustapa Mohamad

Deputies: Mukhriz Mahathir, Jacob Dungau Sagan

Science, Technology and Innovation

Dr Maximus Ongkili

Deputy: Fadillah Yusof

Natural Resources and Environment

Douglas Uggah Embas

Deputy: Joseph Kurup

Tourism

Ng Yen Yen

Deputy: Sulaiman Abdul Rahman Abdul Taib

Agriculture

Noh Omar

Deputies: Johari Baharom, Rohani Abdul Karim

Defence

Ahmad Zahid Hamidi

Deputy: Abdul Latif Ahmad

Works

Shaziman Abu Mansor

Deputies: Yong Khoon Seng

Health

Liow Tiong Lai

Deputy: Rosnah Rashid Shilin

Youth and Sports

Ahmad Shabery Cheek

Deputies: Razali Ibrahim, Wee Jeck Seng

Human Resource

Dr S Subramaniam

Deputy: Maznah Mazlan

Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs

Ismail Sabri Yaakob

Deputy: Tan Lian Hoe

Housing and Local Government

Kong Cho Ha

Deputy: Lajim Ukin

Women, Family and Society Development

Senator Sharizat Abdul Jalil

Deputy: Senator Chew Mei Fun

Foreign

Anifah Aman

Deputies: Senator A Kohilan Pillay, Senator Lee Chee Leong

Federal Territories

Raja Nong Chik Raja Zainal Abidin

Deputy: M Saravanan

Northeast Malaysia Forum

Northeast Malaysia Forum will be happening this weekend, 10th to 12th April 2009 at Yale University.

There will be a Global Forum held, and for Malaysia, we will hold it at Studio V, 1 Utama Shopping Center.

This Global Forum will be held in several locations, Yale, Kuala Lumpur, Sydney, Canberra, London, Singapore, Chicago, San Francisco.

For more details, go to http://www.malaysiaforum.org/nmf .

Here's the tentative schedule for the night, Malaysian time. The sequence of speakers is subject to change, but the general outline isn't.

· 8.00pm Audience arrives and settles in. Welcome address.
· 8.30pm Session I: Dina Zaman
· 9.15pm Session2: Dr. Fatimah Harun
· 10.00pm Break
· 10.30pm Session 3: YB Khalid Samad
· 11.15pm Session 4: YB Khairy Jamaluddin and YB Yusmadi Yusoff

If you are interested to attend for KL, do let me know by responding here in the blog. We have 50 spots for you to attend. You can RSVP at Facebook http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=68311448836 too! Please help to spread the words around.

The contact person for each city is as follow :-

Kuala Lumpur

Chen Chow Yeoh (chenchow (at) gmail (dot) com)

Australia:

i) Sydney -

Ying Ying Liew (liew.yingying (at) gmail (dot) com)

ii) Canberra - Note: Canberra will not be held live simultaneously with the webcast. Email contact for more info.

Arjun Sivanesan (arjun_doom (at) yahoo (dot) com)

Singapore:

Jiin Joo Ong (jiinjoo (at) cs (dot) stanford (dot) edu)
Penny Loo (pennyloo (at) gmail (dot) com)

United States:

i) Chicago -

Amirah Ameer Ali (aaa.miracle (at) gmail (dot) com)

ii) San Francisco Bay Area -

Huifen Tan (huifentan (at) berkeley (dot) edu)

Calvin Teng (calvinteng (at) berkeley (dot) edu)

If your area is not listed, please consider starting one in your area! To be a regional leader, please contact northeastmalaysiaforum (at) gmail (dot) com with the subject heading "Global Forum".

FTW Media - Blog about New Media and Social Media

Do check out a new blog by Oon Yeoh and John Lim from The Edge about New Media and Social Media.

 

It is at http://ftwmedia.wordpress.com .

 

Connecting Those in US and New Admit

Sorry that I was not able to do the connecting for the past few days, due to too many people asking for it, and I was clearing my emails.

If you would like me to connect you for certain university, do email me to my gmail with username of chenchow. Put Subject "University Name".

Do email me by 8th April 8pm Malaysia Time, and then I will do the forwarding on 8th itself, if possible.

A good way also is for you to post on the comment here, and others who see it can connect you! :)

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Admits from Malaysia

Congratulations to the following admits and wait lists:-
Sean Chang, Vichian, Muhd. Amin - united states merchant marine academy admit
Xianjin - Villanova School of Business admit
Ahmad Abrar - CMU admit and NYU wait list
Katherine - CMU admit, cornell wait list
Ian - Colby Wait list
Renuhaa - UPenn admit, CMU admit, Northwestern admit
Jamie - UPenn admit, CMU admit, Northwestern admit

For full list (based on those whom I know):-

Berkeley - Hui Juin, Yee Jie, Jayson Poon, Jie Min, Wern Chia, Nellie, Katherine, Si Ning, Jee Ian, ZJ (PhD)

Boston - Clarys Chan Lai Wah

Brown - Charis Loke (Early Decision), Jonathan Chua, Elaine Leong, N. Sharmala, Alison Lo plus 2 more (Wait List: Plus 1 more)

Caltech - Zhi Kin, Suk Sien plus 1 more, ZJ (PhD)

Carnegie Mellon - Bernard Cheng, Michael Chow, Mark Wong, Wui Yarn, Katherine, Ahmad Abrar, Renuhaa, Jamie plus 2 more (Wait List: Lee Kiat, Plus 1 More)

Colby - (Wait List: Ian)

Columbia - Kristin Khor (Master's) plus 1 more (Master's), Suelynn (Wait List: Tara Thean, Gabrielle, Kenneth Hiew, Joyce, Carmen, Elaine Leong plus 2 more)

Cornell - Chang Ha and Boon Jim (Early Decision), Pei Xin (PhD), Pei Yee (Master's), Raymond (Master's), Yin Wei, Wen Jun, Bryan Chong, Si Ning, Jee Ian (Wait List: Sher Minn, Joyce, Carmen, Hui Juin, Katherine plus 1 more)

Dartmouth - Alison Lo (Wait List: Gabrielle, Yin Wei)

Georgetown - Raymond (master's)

Harvard - Yin Wei, Sharon Teng, Suyin (HBS MBA), (Wait List: Tara Thean, Alison Lo)

Johns Hopkins - Katherine, Carmen, Bernard, Jonathan, Wui Yarn, Raymond (Master's)

Middlebury - Elaine Leong, Evelyn (Wait List: Gabrielle, Ian Low, Amelia Lee)

MIT - Yi Hui, Hew Mun (Master's of MIT Sloan and Harvard Med School Dual-Degree), ZJ (PhD)

Northwestern - Wui Yarn, Carmen, Jie Min, Tee Jin, Bernard, Renuhaa, Jamie plus 1 more (Wait List: Sher Minn, Katherine plus 2 more)

NYU - Soraya, Hui Juin, Xiao Shan, Joyce (Wait List: Khye Theng, Ahmad Abrar, plus 1 more)

Olin - Philip Loh

Pomona - Evelyn

Princeton - Tara Thean, Kai Sheng, Jee Ian, Elaine Leong, Alison Lo (Wait List: Hui Juin)

Scripps - Evelyn

Stanford - Kimberley Ho (Early Action) plus 1 more (Master's), ZJ (PhD), Tara Thean, Zhi Kin, Vin Nie, Alison Lo (Wait List: Zi Liang, Bryan Chong, Mark Wong, Tee Jin, Sharon Teng, plus 1 more)

Swarthmore - Elaine Leong

Texas, Austin - Camellia

Tufts - Raymond (Master's)

UChicago - Raymond (Master's), Tzuo Hann (PhD), Yin Wei, Vin Nie, Hasan Hilmi, Alison Lo (Wait List: Hui Juin, Yee Jie, Joyce, Sharon Teng plus 1 more)

UCLA - Jie Min, Wui Yarn, plus 1 more, ZJ (phD)

United States Merchant Marine Academy - Sean Chang, Vichian, Muhd. Amin

UPenn - Tzuo Hann (PhD), Suyin (Wharton MBA), Zi Liang, Khye Theng (Wharton), Xiaoshan, Hui Juin (Wharton), Renuhaa, Jamie (Wait List: Sharon Teng (Wharton), Marisha Naz (Wharton) Plus 1 More)

Villanova School of Business - Xianjin

Wabash - Ian Low

Washington (St. Louis) - Nellie

Wellesley - Gabrielle

Wesleyan - Abraham Ngu, Tara Thean

Williams - Hasan Hilmi (Wait List: Gabrielle)

Yale - (Wait List: Carmen)
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STeLA Leadership Forum 2009: Call for Applications and Info Session

Thanks Adriene Leong for the info.

 

Do check this out!

 

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** STeLA Leadership Forum 2009: Call for Applications and Info Session
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* Organizer: STeLA ( http://web.mit.edu/stela-mit/ )
* Co-Organizer: MIT-Japan Program（ http://mit.edu/mit-japan/ ）

*STeLA*
STeLA(Science and Technology Leadership Association) is an international
student association which aims 1) to educate participants about leadership
skills for solving global issues and 2) to create its original international
network of future leaders in science and technological fields.

As of now, STeLA has four branches.
+STeLA-USA: consists of students in MIT, Havard...
+STeLA-China: consists of students in Peking Univ, Tsinghua Univ...
+STeLA-Japan: consists of students in Tokyo Univ, Tokyo Tech, Keio Univ.
                     Waseda Univ...
+STeLA-France: consists of students in Ecole Polytechnique, Ecole Des Mines,
                       Ecole Centrale de Paris...

*STeLA Leadership Forum 2009*
Concept: To educate participants about leadership skills for solving global
issues
and to create its original international network of future leaders in
science and
technological fields.
Date : August 23rd - August 31st, 2009
Place : National Institution for Youth Education (http://nyc.niye.go.jp/e/)
Eligibility : Graduate and Undergraduate students in Japan, USA, China and
France
Admission: Submit your application online by May 1st, 23:59(JST), 2009.

*Contents*
- Leadership lectures, workshops, discussion with collaboration from MIT
 Leadership Center(http://sloanleadership.mit.edu/).
- MIT Media Lab Sensible Organizations
Project(http://web.media.mit.edu/~sandy/).
 During the forum, all participants will wear a small sensor which captures
 their communication and visualizes group dymanics from its data in order
 to give positive feedback to group activities and leadership trainings.
- During thematic sessions, we will focus on "Military and Peaceful Use of
Science and Technology" as a global issue closely linked
 o science and technology.
 Participants will have lectures, workshops, site visit, and discussion.
...and so on.

*Info Session*
We will hold info sessions at Tokyo Univ, Tokyo Tech , Keio Univ, Waseda
Univ, Tsukuba Univ and Tohoku Univ this April.
For more details, please visit our web site!!

NYTimes Blog on the Admissions Process

Thanks to Mark Lee for sharing on this! This is a blog by New York Times on Admission.

 

Do check it out!

http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/

 

Youth Leadership Academy

This is a very good program to participate. Hope that you guys would make full use of the opportunities!
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Final Countdown - 5 more days to the Youth Leadership Academy deadline!

Have you always dreamed of becoming a leader who inspires others and drives change? Have you held significant leadership roles before, whether in an existing organisation or at an endeavor of your own making? Do you passionately believe in making a difference in Malaysia? If so, this programme could be for you!

McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm and the trusted advisor to the world's leading businesses, governments and institutions is launching a Youth Leadership Academy (YLA) for first and second year students at Malaysian universities. We are open to considering truly exceptional applications from pre-university students, where you will also be evaluated alongside the first and second year students.

The YLA offers two separate full-day workshops and regular interactions with successful Malaysian corporate leaders and also young professionals from McKinsey's Kuala Lumpur office. YLA Participants will directly apply leadership lessons to actual individual leadership opportunities in academic, extra-curricular, or other personal activities.

For more information please visit our website at www.mckinsey.com.my/YLA or e-mail us at YLA_Malaysia@mckinsey.com 


 

Talk on Building a Culture of Peace and Development in a Globalized World

Thanks to Melissa Kong for the sharing on this talk.

 

Talk by Reverend Jesse Jackson, a civil rights activist.

 

Title :  Building a culture of peace and development in a globalized world

Monday, April 20, 2009:
14:30 Keynote speech and dialogue hosted by Multimedia University (MMU) in Cyberjaya
Information and free seat reservation:
phone (03) 8312-5011, fax (03) 8312-5115, email zarin@mmu.edu.my, sunita@mmu.edu.my

Tuesday, April 21, 2009:
14:30 Keynote speech and dialogue at the International Islamic University (IIU) in Kuala Lumpur
Information and free seat reservation:
phone (03) 6196-5775, fax (03) 6196-4994, email shazhar@iiu.edu.my, shazhar@live.com

Wednesday, April 22, 2009:
10:00 Keynote speech and dialogue at the Institute of Diplomacy and Foreign Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kuala Lumpur
Information and free seat reservation:
phone (03) 2149-1000, fax (03) 2144-9197, email info@idfr.gov.my, melanie@idfr.gov.my

You can check out http://www.peace-foundation.net/ for more information. :) there're other talks going on as well. 

 

Great Summer Volunteer Opportunity in Turkey!!

Great Summer Volunteer Opportunity in Turkey!!
15th June - 30th August 2009

Teach English in Turkey this summer and get FREE flights, free travel, food, accommodation and sight-seeing in Turkey

The Government of Turkey is seeking 15 English-speaking volunteers (18-25) to run informal English teaching sessions to 30 secondary school students in a series of summer camps. Students and volunteers will stay in a guesthouse in the city centre of Adıyaman – a major city in South-Eastern Turkey. Volunteers will enjoy many cultural events + sightseeing trips to neighbouring cities in return for informal language education of the students. It’s a great opportunity to visit a little known part of Turkey and road-test your language teaching skills.

Interested?? Send your CV – and/or a letter expressing your interest and experience to: Aydın Fenerli afenerli@e-genclik.org.tr

Deadline for Applications: 1st May, 2009

HPAIR Business Conference and HPAIR Academic Conference

Check out Harvard Project for Asian & International Relations (HPAIR) Business Conference and Harvard Project for Asian & International Relations (HPAIR) Academic Conference at http://www.hpair.org .

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The HPAIR 2009 Academic Conference:  Asia stands at crossroads in its
history. While its economic growth has surged ahead in recent years, poverty
and inequalities have persisted in many regions. Through the structure of
plenary sessions, the conference will explore the necessary steps to take to
support economic growth while managing societal challenges such as human and
civil rights, poverty, and health issues. Moreover, we will examine the
question of Asia's role in addressing these issues on a global level. The
conference seeks to advance discourse about Asia's future on the world stage
as well as to promote consideration of Asia's unique challenge of
reconciling past events with its current aspirations. How will cultural
traditions and social questions be addressed in Asia? What role will Asia
play in the energy and financial crises? The conference's workshops will
examine more closely Asia's different paths from interdisciplinary
perspectives, analyzing both Asia's past achievements and its upcoming
challenges.  Another highlight of this year's Academic Conference is the
opportunity to have a free, guided tour of Seoul by a professional tourism
company, Seoul Tourism Office.   While you are there, you can check out
everything that this historical and modern city has to offer: from ancient
loyal palaces to towering skyscrapers in the downtown financial center, from
Seoul's internationally acclaimed cuisine to its ubiquitous fashionable
stores.  As our sponsoring tourism company put it, "Seoul is an incredibly
large city overflowing with culture. Even those who have lived in Seoul all
of there life would be unable to discover all of the wonders it holds".

The HPAIR 2009 Business Conference: Since HPAIR continually strives to
innovate with each subsequent conference, we are introducing a number of new
and interactive events for this year's Business Conference. The conference
will feature a Business Competition, where delegates will be divided into
small groups to conceive innovative business strategies for a pre-assigned
business case.  Groups will present their ideas to judges throughout two
rounds, with four groups moving to the final round.  At the end of the
conference, the winning team members will be recognized with special
certificates, and will have the opportunity to demonstrate their ideas to
the rest of the conference attendees. This year's Business Conference will
also include an exclusive career fair, where delegates will have networking
opportunities with our sponsoring corporations through personal engagements
and presentations of the corporation's career options. All delegates will
have their resumes reviewed by our sponsorship companies, which include
Harvard Asian-related institutes. This extensive networking opportunity
could facilitate a wealth of internships and career opportunities in the
future.  We have every expectation that this year's conference will be both
intellectually and professionally stimulating.

At both the Academic and the Business Conference, preeminent speakers from
Harvard, politicians from various countries, and business executives from
numerous international firms will supplement panel and workshop discussions.
Previous speakers include: Former Presidents of the Republic of Korea Kim
Dae-jung and Kim Young-sam, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Harvard
Professors Jeffrey Sachs and Ezra Vogel, Prime Minister of Cambodia Prince
Norodom Ranariddh, Governor General of Australia the Right Reverend Peter
Hollingworth, Justice of International Criminal Court Song Sang-hyun,
Singaporean President SR Nathan, former President of Goldman Sachs Asia,
Philip Murphy, and CEO of Ayala Corporation, Jaime Zobel de Ayala II.  At
the 2009 Harvard Conference, we were fortunate to have accomplished speakers
such as: Harvard Professor Dale Jorgenson, who was the former president of
the American Economic Association; Jorge I. Dominguez, who is the chairman
of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies; Richard Cooper,
who is the former chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; Regina M.
Abrami, who is the faculty chair of the Harvard Business School Immersion
Experience Program, and Terry Collingsworth, who is the executive director
of the International Labor Rights Fund.

Currently, we are in the process of extending speaking invitations to the
heads of state and other prominent government officials in the Republic of
Korea and Japan. Please check our website in the upcoming months for updated
speakers lists. As a delegate, you will not only have the opportunity to
interact closely with these leaders in their respective industries, but you
will also have the chance to befriend future leaders from around the world.
All delegates will have their resumes reviewed by our sponsorship companies,
which include the Harvard Asia-related institutes, Daimler AG, and other
companies. This extensive networking opportunity could facilitate a wealth
of internships and career opportunities in the future.

According to one HPAIR alumnus, "HPAIR conferences transformed my vision of
Asia.  I realized that most of what I had learned about Asia refreshed and
revised. HPAIR made me believe that I really need to broaden my vision of
the Asia Pacific, and I couldn't dream of a better way than doing this with
friends.  HPAIR made it happen!"

In that spirit, the HPAIR organizing committee strongly recommends that you
apply and register to the Academic and/or the Business Conference as soon as
you can, since admission is of a rolling process.  We are offering an early
discount, a group discount, and a special discount for those who attend both
the Academic and Business Conferences. You can read more about them below as
well as on our website at www.hpair.org.  We have also compiled several
notes that will facilitate your experience.  Please find them appended to
this message.  We encourage you to read through them carefully.

The staff of HPAIR looks forward to seeing you soon in Asia!



Sincerely,

Public Relations Team

Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR)

Evelyn - Middlebury, Pomona, Scripps. Camellia - Texas, Austin

Congratulations to Evelyn for getting into Middlebury College, Pomona College and Scripps College!

Congratulations to Camellia for getting into University of Texas, Austin!

For updated list of decisions that I know, it is as follow:- (Sorry that I missed out Tara's name in Harvard wait list, and that caused her to answer questions from a number of people. :))

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Berkeley - Hui Juin, Yee Jie, Jayson Poon, Jie Min, Wern Chia, Nellie, Katherine, Si Ning, Jee Ian, ZJ (PhD)

Boston - Clarys Chan Lai Wah

Brown - Charis Loke (Early Decision), Jonathan Chua, Elaine Leong, N. Sharmala, Alison Lo plus 1 more (Wait List: Plus 1 more)

Caltech - Zhi Kin, Suk Sien plus 1 more, ZJ (PhD)

Carnegie Mellon - Bernard Cheng, Michael Chow, Mark Wong, Wui Yarn plus 2 more (Wait List: Lee Kiat, Plus 1 More)

Columbia - Kristin Khor (Master's) plus 1 more (Master's), Suelynn (Wait List: Tara Thean, Gabrielle, Kenneth Hiew, Joyce, Carmen, Elaine Leong plus 2 more)

Cornell - Chang Ha and Boon Jim (Early Decision), Pei Xin (PhD), Pei Yee (Master's), Raymond (Master's), Yin Wei, Wen Jun, Bryan Chong, Si Ning, Jee Ian (Wait List: Sher Minn, Joyce, Carmen, Hui Juin plus 1 more)

Dartmouth - Alison Lo (Wait List: Gabrielle, Yin Wei)

Georgetown - Raymond (master's)

Harvard - Yin Wei, Sharon Teng, Suyin (HBS MBA), (Wait List: Tara Thean, Alison Lo)

Johns Hopkins - Katherine, Carmen, Bernard, Jonathan, Wui Yarn, Raymond (Master's)

Middlebury - Elaine Leong, Evelyn (Wait List: Gabrielle, Ian Low, Amelia Lee)

MIT - Yi Hui, Hew Mun (Master's of MIT Sloan and Harvard Med School Dual-Degree), ZJ (PhD)

Northwestern - Wui Yarn, Carmen, Jie Min, Tee Jin, Bernard plus 3 more (Wait List: Sher Minn, Katherine plus 2 more)

NYU - Soraya, Hui Juin, Xiao Shan, Joyce (Wait List: Khye Theng, plus 1 more)

Olin - Philip Loh

Pomona - Evelyn

Princeton - Tara Thean, Kai Sheng, Jee Ian, Elaine Leong, Alison Lo (Wait List: Hui Juin)

Scripps - Evelyn

Stanford - Kimberley Ho (Early Action) plus 1 more (Master's), ZJ (PhD), Tara Thean, Zhi Kin, Vin Nie, Alison Lo (Wait List: Zi Liang, Bryan Chong, Mark Wong, Tee Jin, Sharon Teng)

Swarthmore - Elaine Leong

Texas, Austin - Camellia

Tufts - Raymond (Master's)

UChicago - Raymond (Master's), Tzuo Hann (PhD), Yin Wei, Vin Nie, Hasan Hilmi, Alison Lo (Wait List: Hui Juin, Yee Jie, Joyce, Sharon Teng plus 1 more)

UCLA - Jie Min, Wui Yarn, plus 1 more, ZJ (phD)

UPenn - Tzuo Hann (PhD), Suyin (Wharton MBA), Zi Liang, Khye Theng, Xiaoshan, Hui Juin (Wharton) (Wait List: Sharon Teng (Wharton), Marisha Naz (Wharton) Plus 1 More)

Wabash - Ian Low

Washington (St. Louis) - Nellie

Wellesley - Gabrielle

Wesleyan - Abraham Ngu, Tara Thean

Williams - Hasan Hilmi (Wait List: Gabrielle)

Yale - (Wait List: Carmen)

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To all who have emailed me, sorry for the long backlog. Would reply all your emails latest by this weekend.

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