Month: May 2023

This book contains the proceedings of the 22nd Perdana Discourse Series “Envisioning Malaysia’s Future Employment: Trends Vs Skills” which took place on 25th August 2022. The discourse featured Dato’ Professor Dr Elizabeth Lee, Chief Executive Officer, Sunway Education Group, as keynote  speaker, Dr Soo Wincci, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), as moderator and panellists Dato’ Ahmad Nadzarudin Abdul Razak, Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF), Ms See Wai Hun, JurisTech, and Puan Noraliza Mohamad Ali, Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).

The keynote addresses contained in the volume were delivered at the Perdana Discourse Series from 2004 to 2009. Also included are selected questions and answers from the audience dialogues held after each keynote address.

Through the black and white images, it’s obvious that what happened was not only disturbing, but also traumatising on individual, community, and national levels. The riots of 13th May 1969 was a harsh lesson in race relations that shaped our national policies thereafter. It may have taken place more than five decades ago but its impact still reverberates, which make it imperative that all Malaysians should understand what happened and why.

The Staff Pick for May 2023 is brought to you by Mr Adnan Haris, a Senior Librarian in the Collection Development Unit.