{"id":3667,"date":"2014-08-28T02:58:03","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T02:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?page_id=3667"},"modified":"2015-04-21T02:59:40","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T02:59:40","slug":"know-your-neighbouring-countries-asean-students-advised","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/tahun-2014\/august-2014\/know-your-neighbouring-countries-asean-students-advised\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Neighbouring Countries ASEAN Students Advised"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">0<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukm.my%2Fnews%2Farchive%2Ftahun-2014%2Faugust-2014%2Fknow-your-neighbouring-countries-asean-students-advised%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?p=3667&amp;via=https:\/\/twitter.com\/ukmtwit\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-toggle-container\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"newsitem_tools\">\n<div class=\"newsitem_info\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"createdate\">THURSDAY, 28 AUGUST 2014 11:59<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"newsitem_text\">\n<div class=\"news_item_article\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2014\/ASEAN01.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>By Saiful Bahri Kamaruddin<br \/>\nPix Abd Ra\u2019ai Osman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BANGI, 13 Aug 2014 \u2013 People from South-East Asia should get to know more about their neighbouring countries and do volunteer work there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vice-Chancellor of The National University of Malaysia (UKM) Professor Datuk Dr Noor Azlan Ghazali called on undergraduates from ASEAN universities to travel more within the region rather than going to Europe or the United States.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Welcoming fifty participants of the ASEAN Youth Volunteer Programme (AYVP) at UKM here today he noted that many people in ASEAN know very little about their neighbours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe don\u2019t really know ASEAN. Most of us know more about America than our neighbouring countries. I have visited most of the ASEAN countries and I\u2019m convinced that we have more in common than otherwise,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are many common threads that bind the people together within the diversity of cultures and languages in the region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWhat better way for youths who are full of energy and curiosity to find out more by looking in depth into the variety of lifestyles and contributing their energy into helping the less fortunate within their own region,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The students taking part in the AYVP programme, which focuses on the thematic area of Preserving the ASEAN Heritage, will gain immense experience and knowledge about the people of the countries in the region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The experience they gained would go a long way towards building their understanding of those countries. \u201cIt depends on you, as future leaders in your own countries, how ASEAN\u2019s future is determined,\u201d he said, pointing out that by 2015 the ASEAN Economic Community would be in place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Industry and Community Partnerships) Prof Dato&#8217; Dr Saran Kaur Gill who is also the Executive Director of AYVP@AsiaEngage, said knowledge-driven community engagement projects like AYVP give the student volunteers invaluable opportunities to be relevant while applying their theoretical knowledge to meet real world needs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The five-week programme from Aug 11 to Sept 12 include a seven-day preparatory phase of enrichment and appreciation session on the essence of the programme, three weeks of volunteering and outreach period at\u00a0two heritage sites in Malaysia of one week in Kuala Lumpur\u00a0and\u00a0two weeks in Melaka<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That would be followed by\u00a0seven days of evaluation and a\u00a0Grand Celebration\u00a0in UKM on Sep 12.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The programme is supported by the Ministry of Youth and Sports Malaysia and funded by the Ministry of Tourism and Culture Malaysia (MOTAC) and the ASEAN Secretariat, in strategic partnership with the University of Malaya and the Melaka World Heritage Office.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Icon\/ukmnewsportal.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2014\/ASEAN02.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2014\/ASEAN03.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THURSDAY, 28 AUGUST 2014 11:59 By Saiful Bahri Kamaruddin Pix Abd Ra\u2019ai Osman BANGI, 13 Aug 2014 \u2013 People from<a class=\"tukm-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/tahun-2014\/august-2014\/know-your-neighbouring-countries-asean-students-advised\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3669,"parent":1138,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3667","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3671,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3667\/revisions\/3671"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}