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Malaysia has a good reputation in academic excellence and has been recognized as an international education hub that attracts students from many different countries around the world. Recently, Malaysian universities have resulted in the drop of rankings on QS World University Rankings (NST, 2019). In total, 157 departments at Malaysian universities are ranked with 76 departments record a drop-in rank this year, while only 11 record improvements. Based on the survey, employers recording les...

The most important and basic needs that must be fulfilled in order people would be able to enjoy and continue their daily life is housing. A good characteristic of housing that needed by people is when the house is provided with the basic infrastructure such as accessibility of roads and public transport, electricity and water supply and also other basic need that helps the people to improve their standard of living. In order to fulfil the demand of people in the context of housing, Malays...

The usage of plastic bags has increased in recent decades that has contributed to crucial environmental problems affected from the uncontrolled usage of plastic bags in daily life. No Plastic Bag Programme (NPBP) had been launched by the Malaysian government with the objective to reduce the number of plastic bag usage and to protect the environment. This study examines the factors that influence public acceptance towards No Plastic Bags Programme (NPBP) in Shah Alam, Selangor. Stratified r...

The access to food security among the B40 community has become one of the majorissues that need to be curbed and overcome. There is evidence that 53.6% of the B40community have experienced food insecurity while the remaining 46.4% have neverfaced food insecurity. Hence, the objectives of this study were to determine the factorsof food security (and insecurity) among the B40 communities in Malaysia; andwhether there were any associations between demographical, macroecono...

The presence of GrabCar as a smartphone-based taxi booking application in today’s modern world has been a game changer for mobility. However, the complaints and criticisms regarding the mobile application from its users regularly arise. There is the need to study the acceptance of The GrabCar mobile application in order to gain a better understanding about it as well as to provide solutions to the said matter. Accordingly, Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) theory was adopted to accomplish ...