CII to showcase Indian education at Kuala Lumpur

August 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Australian Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, begins her inaugural five-day visit to India on 31 August. The visit, which will take her to New Delhi and Chennai, will strengthen Australia's relations with India.

August 24th, 2009 MUMBAI - Jet Airways will launch a New Delhi-Hong Kong daily service from Sep 30, a top airline official announced here Monday. "The return Hong Kong-New Delhi flight would be launched Oct 1 to mark China's national day," said Jet chief executive Wolfgang Prock-Schauer.

August 12th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - Fortyfive years after dropping out, 62-year-old Gurcharan Kaur has earned a first class honours degree - and the journey had been tough. She used to drive 113 km to the university and return home late at night.

August 3rd, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - A recent move to close the Indian Studies Department at Universiti Malaya (UM) is being resisted by Malaysians of Indian origin. Closing the department is "disrespectful to the heritage of the Indian community", two NGOs of ethnic Indians have said.

July 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Ahmedabad-based Veeda Clinical Research organization is entering Malaysia's medical sector by setting up its advanced research unit at the Ampang Hospital in Kuala Lumpur by the year-end. India's fastest-growing clinical research organisation has selected the Ampang Hospital to conduct first phase clinical trials on humans under a quasi-commercial agreement with the Malaysian Health Ministry, The Star Online reports.

July 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Australian Minister for Immigration and Citizenship Chris Evans on Tuesday assured quality education to Indian students, following apprehensions over slump in migration after the racial attacks Down Under. Evens, who is currently on a visit to India said this while speaking to media after meeting with Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor in New Delhi on Tuesday.

June 21st, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - The oldest party of ethnic Indians, the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) has proposed that Tamil language be included as the 11th subject in the country's high school education. Party deputy president S.

June 21st, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian students looking to study abroad have been urged by a minister to consider India as an option. Malaysia's Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department S.K.

June 10th, 2009 HONG KONG - South Korea's Incheon International Airport has been named the world's best by travellers, snatching the title from Hong Kong, which won the award in seven of the past eight years, a survey published Wednesday showed. Hong Kong International Airport ranked second while Singapore's Changi Airport was third in the annual survey by British-based aviation research specialist Skytrax.

June 8th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - Airline chiefs gathered in Malaysia Monday for an international aviation meeting to focus on strategies to fight off a deepening crisis in global air travel. More than 500 aviation industry leaders will be attending the two-day International Air Transport Association (IATA) annual meeting in the capital, Kuala Lumpur.

May 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Malaysia Airlines Monday announced a huge 53 percent reduction in the fuel surcharge, bringing down return fares from India to Malaysia to an all-inclusive Rs.16,528 from Tuesday. Targeting customers especially for the holiday season, the airlines said it has slashed fuel surcharge by as much as Rs.2,650 for flights to Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand, apart from flights to India.

May 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The United States Soccer Federation (USSF) will provide assistance to All Indian Football Federation (AIFF) in areas ranging from technical advice, exchange programmes and expertise in coaching and administrative issues. USSF's chairman Sunil Gulati, who was in the capital for a stop-over to Kuala Lumpur as an observer for the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Congress, said Tuesday that India is facing the same issues that the US did 14 years back before hosting the World Cup in 1998.

March 22nd, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - Most Malaysian-Indian women in the lower-income group prefer watching television over availing business opportunities available to them. Speaking on the condition of women living in squatter areas, low-cost flats and estates, Dr.

January 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Saina Nehwal fought off a stiff resistance from Hsiao Huan Chen of Chinese Taipei to advance to the quarterfinals of the Malaysian Open Super Series in Kuala Lumpur Thursday. Saina, seeded fifth, beat Huan Chen 21-16, 19-21, 21-19 in 48 minutes.

December 25th, 2008 CHENNAI - The government has registered a non-profit trust, India Development Foundation (IDF), to enable non-resident Indians (NRIs) to fund socially relevant programmes in villages in the country. 'Presently NRIs cannot implement social, health, education improvement projects in a place of their choice in India without prior government sanction.