MONDAY, 2 JUN - Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) will be organizing International Appreciation Night at Pacific Sutera, Sutera Harbour this 3^rd of June.

The appreciation night will be held to show appreciation to the international academic staffs and students in their contribution in marketing UMS to the world through academics achievements and high impact research.

The latest statistics shows 470 international students from 33 nations chosen UMS to further theirs studies in various fields. 390 are the undergraduates while 80 of them are in their Masters and PhDs studies.

UMS studies and learning aspect is also strengthened with 119 international academicians and researchers who joined forces with the locals, strengthening and increasing Universiti Malaysia Sabah research and innovation factors was proved by achievements in a few series recognized research at the international level.

This international appreciation night is not only as a way to appreciate contribution from the international students and staffs, but also a way for them to increase their strong mutual loyalty, to keep achieving excellence with Universiti Malaysia Sabah. Thus, this also will strengthen UMS at the international level in conjunction their 20^th anniversary.

The international students will also launching their Universiti Malaysia Sabah International Students Association (UMSIS) 2013/2014 session with 16 members of the association will be introduced. The members are appointed based on selection on the 27^th of February. Cultural performance from various countries will be performed by the international students to enliven the night.

The International Appreciation Night will also be attended by ambassadors and consulates in Malaysia as a way to strengthened diplomatic and cooperation between UMS and various agencies and international institution of higher learning since of the inception of UMS, 20 years ago.
 

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FRIDAY, 30 MAY – Entrepreneurial activity has long been known as a producer of wealth and could enhance the economic level of a country.

According to Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Datuk Dr Mohd Harun Abdullah, when the economy improved the country would prosper, the government’s efforts in eradicating poverty would also be achieved.

“With this in mind, the government through the Ministry of Education (KPM), which was then known as the Ministry of Higher Education (KPT) implemented the Higher Education Entrepreneurship Development Policy 2010.

“It aims to promote and strengthen a more organised and holistic entrepreneurship development among local universities (IPT) to produce quality human capital who can think, with attributes and with entrepreneurship values,” he said during the official closing ceremony of the Entrepreneurship Research Development and Entrepreneurship Centre (ERDEC) Carnival at Dewan Bankuasi UMS.

Datuk Dr. Harun said the implementation of the policy was also an effort to create more entrepreneurs who will act as catalysts to national economic transformation into a high income economy based on innovation to achieve a developed nation status by the year 2020.

“This policy is also strengthened with the launching of the IPT Strategic Entrepreneurship Plan is achieved,” he added.

Touching on the entrepreneurship carnival, he said it was very timely to attract students as well as exposing them to this field thus engaging themselves into having their own business after graduating.

Datuk Dr. Harun also declared 28 May as ‘UMS Entrepreneurship Day’ celebrated every year. – SS (fl)


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Borneo Triton Club (BTC) was among the parties who are involved in celebrating the day.

16 of their members joined and take part with their own trucks to celebrate and help with the planting trees program as one of the activities for the celebration.

The President, Vic Codfrey Marcussaid, BTC feel calledto join in this programmeas awareness on the importance of sustainability of forestas natural resource that have benefited to the mankind.

"As we all know,forest vegetationis the major oxygen supplier  which is our basisof lifein this world. Without forest, humanandother living creature will not be able to live,"he said.

He said,besides playing a roleimportantinoffsetting the air quality levelandreducing global warmingphenomenon, the retention of the greenness of the environmentis also crucial for us to inherit for the futuregeneration.

Hence, he added, activitiesthat can bedestructive to the forestlike unplanned explorations andillegal loggingneed to be overcome and handled together.


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THURSDAY, 29 MAY – The School of International Tropical Forestry (SPTA) Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) once again organised an International Seminar on Tropical Forest Carbon Stock Assessment in conjunction with World Forestry Day 2014.

The seminar was a gathering of results and research studies in Sabah, Peninsular Malaysia and Cambodia on the assessment of carbon stocks in tropical forests.

According to the organising chairman, Dr. Phua Mui How, the seminar was an ideal platform for the dissemination of information and discussion between experts and concerned parties in the implementation of Reduction from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) in Sabah.

He added that REDD was a mechanism to reduce Green house Gas emissions by giving payments as compensation.

“Preserving carbon stocks and the financial mechanism is regarded as one of the most effective approaches in reducing carbon emissions into the atmosphere,” he said.

According to him, Malaysia was expected to become one of the non-Annex I countries that will implement REDD in the future.

The one-day seminar was attended by about 200 participants from the Sabah Forestry Department, Sabah Foundation, Sabah Forest Industries, Forest Research Institute of Japan and the University of Japan besides participants from UMS itself. – ZMD (fl)


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