The Star Online – Rahimy Rahim
“While young people and especially girls in many countries are deprived, and in some instances prevented from having an education, children in Malaysia face no such setbacks. In fact, children of school-going age, girls or boys, must be enrolled in school – a requirement by law. Universiti Putra Malaysia Assoc Prof Dr Syahril Abdullah, shares the nobel laureate’s sentiments saying that it is only through knowledge that one can move up. As a member of the Young Scientist Network – Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM), he recently led a Malaysian delegation and it included winners of last year’s National Science Challenge (NSC) – See Jing Ming, Lee Shan Shan and Partiban Anathurai – to the prestigious Nobel Prize presentation ceremony in Sweden.”(more)