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MIC CWC candidate urges Indian businessmen to think big

September 10, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Petaling Jaya (Malaysia), Sep. 9 (ANI): Malaysian Indian Congress’s CWC seat hopeful Jaspal Singh has urged Malay-Indian businessmen to think big and incorporate technology into their ventures for more profit.

Singh said Indians should be prepared to work hard and take up challenges to compete at a global platform.

“Investors will come to Malaysia to open business here and we cannot be asking for protection. We must prepare ourselves to stand on our own two feet,” the Star Online quoted Singh, as saying.

Singh has been given the task of coordinating the construction of two 18-storey tower blocks in Bandar Utama which will become the new MIC headquarters.

During his campaign, Jaspal said he would strive for excellence, bring innovation to deliver change effectively and efficiently and be result-oriented.

Singh, who born in Bedong in 1962, enrolled for a engineering degree course at Universiti Malaya.

The secretary of the MIC economic bureau is credited for a development programme to assist new entrepreneurs. (ANI)

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Universiti Malaya’s Indian Studies Department to remain

September 3, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Putrajaya, Sep 3 (ANI): The Malaysian Cabinet has decided that the Indian Studies Department of Universiti Malaya will remain and to be headed by a qualified Malaysian of Indian origin.

Human Resources Minister Dr S. Subramaniam said the Cabinet was against the decision to change the name of the department when it was brought up for discussion on Wednesday.

Dr Subramaniam, the sole Indian representative in the Cabinet, had raised the matter as the Malaysian Indian Congress and several Indian non-governmental organisations were against the name change.

“The Cabinet has also directed the Higher Education Ministry to ensure that an eligible Malaysian Indian heads the department,” he told reporters after meeting the ministry’s training providers here,” The Star quoted him, as saying.

Dr Subramaniam hoped this would put an end to speculations on the status of the department and who would head it.

There were reports that Universiti Malaya had wanted to change the department’s name to the “Indian and South Asian Studies Department”.

“I hope the Cabinet’s decision today would put an end to all sorts of speculation on the status of the department. Too many things have been said and enough is enough,” Dr Subramaniam said.

He added that the Cabinet had also discussed about the Hari Raya bonus payment for civil servants but had yet to make a stand on it. (ANI)

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MIC urges Universiti Malaya to maintain its Indian Studies dept’s name

August 29, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 29 (ANI): Malaysian Indian Congress chief S. Samy Vellu has urged Universiti Malaya’s vice-chancellor Ghauth Jasmon not to change the name of university’s Indian Studies Department.

“He has to listen to the views of the Indian community. Tamil is our life,” he said when asked to comment on Ghauth’s statement over renaming the department to Indian and South Asian Studies department.
Ghauth had reportedly said that although the name of the department would be changed, its programmes would be maintained.
“We will not accept any changes to the Indian Studies Department because it was the Indians who contributed to the department’s existence and it is also our pride,” the New Strait Times quoted Samy Vellu, as saying.
He said he was informed by Human Resources Minister Dr. S. Subramaniam that the cabinet has agreed to maintain the during a recent Cabinet meeting.
“It has been agreed by the Cabinet. So, there must not be any change in the name,” Samy Vellu said.
He noted that the ISD was created from money collected from Indian estate workers in the early 1950s under the “Save Tamil Fund.”
“The department has many historical values for the Indian community. Changing its name would mean showing disrespect to the Indian community,” he added. (ANI)

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Universiti Malaya’s Indian Studies dept will be maintained: VC

August 26, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Petaling Jaya (Malaysia), Aug. 26 (ANI): The representatives of Indian NGOs have been assured by the vice-chancellor of Universiti Malaya that the Indian Studies department in the university will be maintained.

Professor Ghauth Jasmon told Indian NGOs’ coordinator K. Arumugam that the university was in the process of recruiting a person proficient in Tamil to head the department.

A controversy had erupted when a non-Indian Dr Mohammad Raduan Mohd Ariff was made head of the department after the retirement of Dr S. Kumaran, the Star reports.

The uproar reached a new height when reports of replacing the Indian Studies department with a South Asian Studies department surfaced.

On Tuesday, a three-member delegation representing 128 Indian NGOs had a one-hour discussion with Jasmon on the issue.

They handed over a memorandum demanding appointment of an Indian head of the department.The vice-chancellor has agreed to consider a member of the existing staff to head the department if they can get together and agree among themselves.

“He was very frank and patient. He assured us that his intention was only to make it better and not to destroy the department,” Arumugam said. (ANI)

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Malay Indian NGOs want Indian expert to head university department

August 22, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Kuala Lumpur, Aug.22 (ANI): A group of 128 Indian non-governmental organizations have called on the Malaysian Government to appoint an expert in Indian affairs to head the Universiti Malaya’s department for Indian studies.

The Star quoted coordinator K. Arumugam, who is the group’s spokesman, as saying the expert should have indepth knowledge of Malaysian Indian society, and be proficient in the Tamil language, culture, religion, and history of Malaysian Indians.

Arumugam said copies of the memorandum were handed to the Prime Minister’s office, Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk S.K. Devamany and Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Khaled Nordin yesterday.

He said a meeting had also been scheduled on Tuesday with the university’s vice-chancellor Prof Datuk Ghauth Jasmon. (ANI)

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MIC CWC candidate urges Indian businessmen to think big

Universiti Malaya’s Indian Studies Department to remain

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