As the World around us is becoming progressively globalised, working together proactively in ensuring wise and prudent utilization of scarce resources for sustainable development implies a broad view of human welfare, long term perspective about the consequences of today’s activities, and the full involvement of civil society to reach viable solutions. Hence all segments of society including scientist and educator need to collaborate using sound practices to effectively and efficiently steward the earth’s ;limited natural resources to attain better quality of life for man kind.

 

This conference is organized by the Institute for Social Science Studies (IPSAS) University Putra Malaysia(UPM) and Journal of Social Science, Science Publication, will provide international platform for researches, graduate students and practitioners in the field of sustainable community development to share information and accomplishment, to discover the challenges for the future, and to offer ideas for advance practices that meet the needs of the present and simultaneously recognizing the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

 

KL VISION 2011 is the 10th International Conference on Low-Vision will be held for the first time in Asia since its inception in 1984, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 20-24 February 2011.

The Conference will bring the convergence of professionals in various filed of ophthalmology, optometry and low vision research and rehabilitation in vision impairment such as physicists, psychologists, therapists, doctors and clinical health professionals amongst others.

 

Organized by International Society for Low Vision Research and Rehabilitation (ISLRR), in collaboration with the Malaysian Association of the Blind (MAB) and The Tun Hussein Onn National Eye Hospital (THONEH), the conference will offer a wide range of topics with the plenary sessions focusing on four main themes namely;

 

1. 1. New Development in Research and Rehabilitation
2. 2. Rehabilitation and new advances
3. 3. Multi disciplinary Interventions and 4) Epidemiology in Developing Countries.

 

Line up with distinguished speakers worldwide and research findings through medical advancement, will definitely promise people with vision impairment a better living.

The 22^nd Pacific Science Congress will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 14-18 June 2011. The Congress provides an interdisciplinary platform for scientists from the region to assess and prioritize issues requiring scientific research; brings together scientists from more remote states; and catalyzes international and cross-disciplinary collaboration and to announce and establish new research initiatives. The Pacific Science Association (PSA) focuses on those countries bordering the Pacific Ocean and the islands of the Pacific basin

The 16^th Asia Masters Athletics Championships will be held in Bukit Jalil Stadium, Malaysia from 6-12 December 2010. The main purpose of this event is to keep the master athletics, from 24 Asian countries which is affiliated with Asian Master Athletics (AMA), fit and healthy and a reunion of old friends.

The program is organized by The Malaysian Master Athletic Association with the cooperation from the Ministry of Youth and Sports. Various track and field events will be organized and a 10Km run at Dataran Medeka as the grand finale.