The Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS) in cooperation with Faculty of Social\u00a0Sciences\u00a0and Humanities\u00a0(FSSK), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia cordially\u00a0invites YBhg. Prof\/Sir\/Madam\u00a0to the\u00a0IKMAS-FSSK Seminar.\u00a0The details of the event are\u00a0as follows:<\/p>\n
Presenter \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Tan Sri\u00a0Ab.\u00a0Kadir Mohamad<\/strong><\/p>\n Title \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 : \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Malaysia-Singapore Relations: Unsettled Issues and Future Prospects<\/strong><\/p>\n Date \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 : \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 18th May 2015 (Monday)<\/strong><\/p>\n Venue \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Bilik Senat, Chancellory Building<\/strong><\/p>\n Time \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 10.00 am – 12.00 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n SUMMARY OF THE LECTURE<\/strong><\/p>\n This lecture will begin\u00a0by explaining the background leading to the separation of Singapore from Malaysia in 1965.\u00a0It then\u00a0focuses\u00a0on the latest state of affairs concerning the supply of water to Singapore; the status of the 2008 ICJ decisions relating to Pedra Branca (Batu Puteh); the Malayan Railway land in Singapore, the crooked bridge to replace the causeway; the land reclamation by Singapore in the Straits of Johor; the defence of Singapore; the end of the Lee Kuan Yew era; and the prospects for Next Fifty Years in Malaysia-Singapore relations.<\/p>\n BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF THE SPEAKER<\/strong><\/p>\n Tan Sri\u00a0Ab.\u00a0Kadir Mohamad graduated with a B.A Hons. in Political Science degree from the University of New South\u00a0Wales, Sydney, Australia in 1968. He spent 45 years in the service of the Government of Malaysia, including as Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1996-2001) and Adviser for Foreign Affairs to the Prime Minister of Malaysia (2003-2009). He has documented his intimate knowledge of issues affecting Malaysia-Singapore relations in a book published in January 2015, entitled \u201cMalaysia-Singapore Fifty Years of Contentions 1965-2015\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS) in cooperation with Faculty of Social\u00a0Sciences\u00a0and Humanities\u00a0(FSSK), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia cordially\u00a0invites YBhg. Prof\/Sir\/Madam\u00a0to the\u00a0IKMAS-FSSK Seminar.\u00a0The details of …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[],"class_list":["post-679","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":923,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/679\/revisions\/923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}