Appointment letter as a liaison officer for Japanese group at the festival, July 2008

Sarawak Tourism Board will organize the 11th Rainforest World Music Festival, a traditional / ethnic musical fiesta from 11-13 July 2008

Panel of Judges for the 4th Sarawak Hornbill Tourism Award 2009/2010, 21 November 2011

In recognition of being Panel of Judge

Lantikan sebagai Panel Juri bagi pertandingan pidato peringkat Negeri Sarawak bagi Karnival Program Pelancongan Pelajar, September 2011

Satu karnival Program Pelancongan Pelajar diadakan pada 16-18 September 2011 di Kampung Budaya Sarawak Kuching

Adjudicator for selecting the best paper of selected papers that will be presented in the “Best Paper Award” program, Faculty of Agriculture Universitas Pembangunan Nasional “Veteran” Yogyakarta

Regarding to the program of “International Seminar on Agro-tourism Development”, that will be held in Faculty of Agriculture Universitas Pembangunan Nasional “Veteran” Yogyakarta in December 6-8, 201

Learning Through Examining the Tourist Experience

In the field of travel and tourism, scholars with interest in consumer behaviour studies have explored different variables and linked them with individual tourist behaviour. Variables such as destination image, environmental awareness, service perception, preferences, and motivations for travel are commonly used to understand and predict destination selections and travel behaviour.This study is intended to shed some further light on this issue and contribute to knowledge in this area. A survey that gained a total of 1340 respondents was carried out in three destinations in Sarawak between 2006 and 2008 to gain an understanding of their behaviours travelling into Sarawak. Regional tourism organizations can also play an important role in destination marketing and tourism product development and to recommend appropriate marketing strategies that could be adopted by tourist organizations based on a further understanding of travel behaviour. As shown from the analysis, Sarawak tourism market is not big enough to have very many segments; therefore the different regions need to have common and coordinated marketing strategies in order to gain market share

Incidental papillary carcinoma of thyroid in Graves’ disease

Traditionally Grave's disease was considered as protection against thyroid cancer. The incidence of papillary carcinoma thyroid in grave’s disease is 2.4%. Thyroid cancer occurring in grave’s disease has higher frequency of persisting or relapsing disease than thyroid cancers occurring in matched euthyroid control patients. Here we present a case of papillary carcinoma in a Grave’s disease patient presented with nodular goiter

Sarawak Hornbill Tourism Award 2009/2010 , 1st October 2011

In recognition of being Panel of Judge

Synthesis, and biological screening of chloropyrazine conjugated benzothiazepine derivatives as potential antimicrobial, antitubercular and cytotoxic agents

A series of twenty new chloropyrazine conjugated benzothiazepines (22-41) have been synthesized with 58%–95% yields. The compounds were characterized by using different spectroscopic techniques including FT-IR, ¹H NMR, ¹³C NMR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry. The synthesized compounds (22-41) and their precursor chalcones (2-21) were evaluated for antitubercular and cytotoxic activities. Additionally, compounds 22-41 were also tested for antimicrobial activity. Among the chalcone series (2-21), compounds 7 and 14 showed significant antitubercular activities (MICs 25.51 and 23.89 µM, respectively), whereas among benzothiazepines (22-41), compounds 27 and 34 displayed significant antimicrobial (MICs 38.02 µM, 19.01 µM) and antitubercular (MIC 18.10 µM) activities. Compounds 7 and 41 displayed cytotoxic activities with IC₅₀ of 46.03 ± 1 and 35.10 ± 2 µM respectively. All the compounds were evaluated for cytotoxic activity on normal human liver cell lines (L02) and found to be relatively less selective towards this cell line. The most active compounds identified through this study could be considered as potential leads for the development of drugs with possible antimicrobial, antitubercular, and cytotoxic activities