Sustainable development in Malaysia: a case study on household Waste Management

Sustainable development (SD) is a concept which first originated in the 1970s when the developed world undertook massive development project in terms of cutting and clearing forests and constructing high rising buildings and spacious highways. Development of a country is essential to meet the needs of its people and to provide people with the latest infrastructure, high rising buildings and recreation facilities. However, the development process concerns the world community as it affects the natural environment. The ecological balance breaks down and environmental degradation occurs at an alarming rate. Therefore, the world community started thinking about protecting the environment while implementing development activities. Environmental degradation also occurs from intensive industrialization of a country. Therefore, to protect the environment, the world community proposed sustainable development. Sustainable development has three components: economic development; social development; and environmental protection. A sustainable development project requires that in any development project, these three components of SD must be taken into consideration and implemented properly so that the environment is not adversely affected. This paper focuses only on a small aspect of environmental protection, that is, proper management of household waste. This paper discusses how household waste in Malaysia can be converted into vermicompost for use in plantations and agriculture. The production of vermicompost may reduce the amount of organic waste in the country and help to maintain a clean and fresh environment. Vermicompost can also reduce emission of methane gas which causes global warming. Descriptive and analytical research methodology has been applied in this research paper

Legal and ethical duties of corporate managers

The Companies Act 1965 (Malaysia) provides certain duties to corporate managers which must be followed and complied with. These duties are imposed by law to ensure excellent performance and high productivity in the corporation. These duties also can ensure outstanding project management in the corporation. Those duties are: i) To be honest and speak the truth about the quality of products, ability to perform work etc. at all times; ii) To use reasonable diligence, skill and care; iii) Not to misuse inside information of the corporation; iv) Acting bona fide in the interest of the company; v) Disclosing personal interest in any transaction with the company; vi) Not to make secret profit by using manager position; vii) Avoiding conflict of interest with the company and so on. It is not the only duty of corporate managers to maximize profit for the company but they have other important duties such as corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainable development (SD). The objective of the paper is to analyze that if legal and ethical duties are implemented properly in corporations, there is a possibility that the concept of good management and good governance will flourish in corporate business and the productivity in corporate sector will increase

The Relationship Between Computer Attitude, Academic Major And Profesional Computer Usage : An Empirical Study On Lecturers In UiTM Perlis

The relationship between attitude, major and computer usage was studied using a theoretical path model. Three hypotheses on correlation were tested in this research. A community of lecturers in UiTM Perlis was taken as the subject under study. The study uncovered the fact that computer attitude is positively correlated with professional usage of computers. Academic major of maths and non-maths is directly correlated with level of professional usage of computers. The finding was that the two variables were significant even though they are inversely correlated. For the relationship between Major and Computer Attitude, the relationship was found to be on a similar note with the latter where, a significant but yet an inverse relationship

E- Surveillance Vis-A-Vis Privacy Rights: An Analysis of Western and the Shari'ah Perspectives

With the proliferation of digital technologies at the hands of individual and the state, the tension between security and privacy has further escalated. The immense development of information and communication technologies nowadays has become an unavoidable means to help assuring national security by way of electronic surveillance. However, such e-surveillance must be within the domain of necessity and therefore should respect inherent privacy right of every individual and it is a recent-past outcry in the West. Interestingly, this concept of privacy rights had been embraced extensively through Prophet Muḥammad (p.b.u.h) 1405 years back in Islam. Moreover, Islam extremely values and respects individual privacy rights by way of human dignity regardless of race, sex, color and religious belief. Thus this research work is penned to formulate the importance of protecting privacy rights for every individual under the sharīʿah point of views and draw a critical analysis of it between Islamic and Western perspectives. This study will also attempt to develop a policy prescription from Islamic management perspective based on the teachings of the holy Qur’ān, the ḥadīth and contemporary Islamic literatures. Keywords: E-surveillance, Privacy Rights, Muḥtasib, Islamic law Perspective, Western law Perspective

The Experiences of Disadvantages and Discrimination Among the Tea Garden Workers in Bangladesh: An Overview

This paper aims to understand the experiences of disadvantages and discrimination among tea garden workers in Bangladesh. Based on the interviews of 75 tea garden workers, the paper identified few domains where they experience disadvantage and discrimination. The paper recommended government intervention and NGO and INGO initiatives to ensure educational opportunities for their children, provide healthcare facilities and increase wages for the garden workers. The paper has implications for the international community to ensure equitable society and social justice for the vulnerable and minority groups all over the world

Islamic law of contract is getting momentum

This article is basically a book review on the book written by Razali, Siti Salwani. The title of the book is the ‘Islamic Law of Contract’ which has been published by Cengage Learning from the United States in 2010. The ISBN of the book is 13: 978-981-4253-97-0 and there are a total of 124 pages. The authors of this review article (Dr. Jalil and Mr. Khalil) have reviewed the book to find its merits and demerits and finally have given some suggestions for its further improvement. The authors have also written some points on the Islamic law of contract which they think necessary for the readers (who are not exposed to the Islamic law of contract) to understand better on the Islamic law of contract as well as for a better insight on the relevant legal points involved therein

Financial transactions in Islamic banking are viable alternatives to the conventional banking transactions

Islam has prohibited riba (interest) on loan given. When a lender lends money to another person, he is allowed to get back the capital amount only and not any additional amount which is usually fixed interest on the capital. Taking interest on loan given caused cruelty and injustice to poor people in the society during prophet Muhammad’s time who were unable to pay back the capital and the interest. So, Prophet Muhammad encouraged the rich people to give qard al-hasan (interest free loan) to the poor and needy people to help them to solve their problems. That’s why Allah (the Creator) prohibited taking interest but encouraged people who have money to invest the money in business. The profit obtained from business is permitted (halal) but fixed rate interest taken on loan given to a person is riba (interest) and it is prohibited. As Allah (the Creator) has prohibited interest, Muslims are prohibited to give interest, to take interest and to write down the interest transaction. Hence, Muslim scholars have invented some Islamic transactions which do not involve interest and Islamic banks are adopting these Islamic transactions. The objective of this paper is to narrate and analyze the Islamic banking transactions which are interest free and they are considered as alternatives to the conventional banking transactions