1. Some members of the Faculty of Science & Technology paid a visit to Sabah Parks. On the 30th April we had a tripartite meeting with Sabah Parks and Institute for Tropical Biodiversity Conseercation of UMS. The meeting was chaired by Dr. Jamili Nais, Deputy Director Sabah Parks.
2. The three partners agreed in principle to embark on R & D undertakings at least at two different parks, namely at Kinabalu park and Tun Sankaran Dandai Marine Park, for a start. The former for the terrestrial biodiversity and the latter for the marine biodiversity.
3. On 1st May nine members climbed to Layang-Layang, but in the afternoon Prof. Datuk Dr. Noramly was escorted back as he had a right thigh cram. I was informed three went on to Panar Laban but failed to scaled up the peak as it was raining.
4. On the 1st and the morning of the 2nd May, I worked in the herbarium identifying and annotated the Vitaceae lodged there. Apparently, I did this work twice in 1984, repeated it in 1987 and went back there in 1993. But this was my first visit to work in the new herbarium. Incidently I had identified all the specimens except one sterile specimen of Tetrastigma of which I had no clue.
5. This morning we visited the herbarium and the labs of UMS and all of us were impressed with the new and first-class lab facilities in this Institute. It was Sunday yet many staffs turned up to be with us. Thank you.
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UMS has good relationship with JAICA....UKM?
Dear Khairil
Yes UMS has had a wonderful and fruitful relationship with JICA and that is why UMS received many gifts such as the laboratory equipments. Other Malaysian universities have quite similar arrangements with JICA too, but we have not lost our souls to the Japanese aids. Granted there were many good things that emerged from such relationships but there were also negative effects when we had relationships with richer partners!
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