{"id":6385,"date":"2010-02-19T21:32:16","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T13:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=6385"},"modified":"2010-02-19T21:32:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T13:32:16","slug":"answer-this-usm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2010\/02\/19\/answer-this-usm\/","title":{"rendered":"Answer this USM!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">IF this is true, it is most disgraceful and bordering on criminality. How can a PhD candidate<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2010\/2\/19\/nation\/20100219143453&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\"> not understand neither English or BM<\/a><\/strong>? Is he writing his thesis on some foreign language? How does he communicate with his supervisors, fellow students, locals, etc.?<\/p>\n<p>How in the world did he get his student pass?<\/p>\n<p>Is this sign of flaws in our education promotion, immigration rules, and USM administration?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An Iraqi, who is taking a doctorate at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) in electronics engineering, was charged in the Magistrates Court here Friday with reckless driving and causing the death of a student at the university, Fadilah Abdul Halim, 27, last Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hamood Sheehab Hamid, 45, was charged with committing the offence driving in a reckless and dangerous manner, under section 41 (1) of the Road Transport Act 1987, at the traffic light exit to USM, at Jalan Transkrian about 9.45am.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hamood Sheehab Hamid, 45, is studying for a doctorate in electronics engineering.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> However, no plea was recorded because Hamood could neither understand English nor Bahasa Malaysi<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">a<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Magistrate Mohd Izham Ali ordered Hamood&#8217;s passport be surrendered to the court and set bail at RM5,000 in two sureties, a local and a foreigner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He fixed March 23 for mention.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Deputy public prosecutor Ahmad Ghazali Muhamad Nadzri prosecuted, while Hamood was represented by lawyer Badrul Hisham Abdullah<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IF this is true, it is most disgraceful and bordering on criminality. How can a PhD candidate not understand neither English or BM? Is he writing his thesis on some foreign language? How does he communicate with his supervisors, fellow students, locals, etc.? How in the world did he get his student pass? Is this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-6385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6386,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6385\/revisions\/6386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}