Author 1 Armstrong Jr., Hubert E Author 2 Tan, Eng Kong It was predicted that the Orang Asli (Malaysian aborigines) would score as a “high barrier” culture on the body-image barrier index, and that villages located with greater proximity to outside influence would produce individuals with lowered barrier indices. Ss were 30 female and 30 … Read more
Focuses on the initial period of Malayan development which reflected an effort to exert administrative control and extract tin ore through a complementary rail and road system. Provision of a base for the development of rubber estates in the period when the road network became recognized as the most flexible form of transportation; Association of … Read more
Author 1: Aiken, S. Robert Author 2: Leigh, Colin H. By 1990 a conurbation will have emerged in the Kiang Valley of Peninsular Malaysia with a probable population of more than two million people. Rapid urban growth has already generated physical and social problems. Soil erosion and flooding have increased, and health problems have been … Read more
Describes the condition of manpower planning and labor markets in West Malaysia during the 1960s. Problems and conditions in employment markets; Implications of insulated markets for manpower and economic policies; Suggestions offered for future employment-creation policies. Download
The article presents a discussion on Islam, society and political behaviour by considering the case of the West Malaysian state of Kelantan. Religion, like myth, turns often upon the relation between morality and reality. Thus many religiously inspired world views, and especially those of the universalistic religions, are in tension with social reality. A collision … Read more
The origins and early development of electricity production in Malaya are closely connected with the tin mining industry and with European participation in it. The present constitutes a turning point for the electricity supply industry since mining now consumes less than half the Federation’s total electricity output; moreover, this share is expected to decline further … Read more
This article relates the evolution of Malaysia as a free nation and the spirit of national unity that inspires and guides the ideals and outlook of this country. With the growth of nationalism, the desire for independence had already developed in Malaya to such a pitch that unless this fervor was released and expressed in … Read more
The article focuses on the troubled birth of Malaysia. The Federation of Malaysia is scheduled to come into existence on August 31 of this year by the merger of the existing Federation of Malaya with Singapore, the British colonies of Sarawak and North Borneo and the British-protected Sultanate of Brunei, thus forming a crescent well … Read more
Author 1 Chapman, Bruce J. Author 2 Harding, J. Ross Focuses on the application of the conventional human capital earnings to a Malaysian wage data in an attempt to determine the origins of sex differences in average earnings. Theoretical model of the human capital function; Application of the model to estimate sex differences in wages; … Read more
Author 1 Saudi, Madihah Mohd Author 2 Ismail, Shaharudin Author 3 Tamil, Emran Mohd, et al According to Malaysian Computer Emergency Response Team (MyCERT) the number of forgery incidents especially phishing cases in Malaysia had enormously increased. This social engineering act which tricks someone into giving their confidential information is becoming a major threat in … Read more