{"id":9948,"date":"2010-11-15T00:00:32","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T00:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?page_id=9948"},"modified":"2015-05-28T03:35:22","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T03:35:22","slug":"taman-chendana-ukms-adopted-housing-area","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2010\/november-2010\/taman-chendana-ukms-adopted-housing-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Taman Chendana UKM\u2019s Adopted Housing Area"},"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%2Fyear-2010%2Fnovember-2010%2Ftaman-chendana-ukms-adopted-housing-area%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=9948&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--><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/tmnchendana1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>MONDAY, 15 NOVEMBER 2010 14:49 ADMINISTRATOR<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Abdul Razak Hussin<br \/>\nPix by Saliman Leman<\/strong><br \/>\nPASIR GUDANG, JOHOR, 15 Nov. \u00a02010 \u2013 Taman Chendana, a housing estate for the lower and middle income groups, has been declared as UKM\u2019s adopted housing area to enable the university to carry programmes aimed at helping the people there especially in education and health care.<br \/>\nMinister of Higher Education, Dato\u2019 Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin, made the announcement at the closing ceremony of the 1Malaysia Health Programme at the housing estate here yesterday.<br \/>\nKhaled, who is also the MP for Pasir Gudang where the housing estate is situated,\u00a0hoped UKM can assist in increasing awareness of the people there about the state of their health and education as they needed assistance to meet their aspirations.<br \/>\nSuch community programmes will also enable UKM students to understand the needs of society and issues confronting the people. Such understanding needed to be nurtured among university students so that they would be willing to take part in community programmes to impart their knowledge for the benefit of society.<br \/>\nPresent at the ceremony were UKM Vice Chancellor, Prof. Tan Sri Dato\u2019 Dr. Sharifah Hapsah Syed Hasan Shahabudin, Deputy VC (Academic and International Affairs) \u00a0Prof. Ir. Dato\u2019 Dr. Hassan Basri, Permas Assemblyman, Encik MM Samy and the President of the Pasir Gudang Municipal Council, Haji Abd Rahim Nin.<br \/>\nKhaled said the Higher Education Ministry wants university graduates to be imbued with the knowledge and understanding of the various issues, problems and needs of society.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/tmnchendana2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/tmnchendana3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That was why the Ministry encourages programmes aimed at exposing students to what the people faced in their daily lives as well as to imbue the spirit of volunteerism among them.<br \/>\nHe said that UKM as a research university which possesses strength in health education should undertake a comprehensive study on the state of the health of the people of Pasir Gudang. Such a study would be helpful in planning future health programmes for the people.<br \/>\nThe 1Malaysia 3 day Health programme began on Friday (Nov 12) where health clinics and exhibition on UKM as well as activities to enhance motivation among the people especially the youth and school children were held.<br \/>\nUKM\u2019s booth providing medical check-ups and the exhibition were well patronised even up to the closing ceremony indicating the people\u2019s concern about health and and matters pertaining to education.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Icon\/ukmnewsportal.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/tmnchendana4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/tmnchendana5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONDAY, 15 NOVEMBER 2010 14:49 ADMINISTRATOR By Abdul Razak Hussin Pix by Saliman Leman PASIR GUDANG, JOHOR, 15 Nov. \u00a02010<a class=\"tukm-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2010\/november-2010\/taman-chendana-ukms-adopted-housing-area\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9951,"parent":1416,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9948","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9948","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9952,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9948\/revisions\/9952"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}