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IIUM,25 July 2009 - A Going Green Campaign organized by EMS (Economic and Management Sciences) in conjunction with E-Fest ’09 was held at Econs LT 1 building. The purpose of this campaign was to create awareness among IIUM student in environment conservation especially water pollution. The campaign started at 9.30 a.m. and was launched by the Dean of EMS, Assoc.Prof. Khaliq Ahmad.

The slogan of this campaign was “Our Planet, Our Responsibility” and it begun with speech given by Ahmad Budaya bin Ismail, Executive of Communication Department of IWK (Indah Water Konsortium). He highlighted the importance of giving attention to water pollution as a dangerous threat to the ecosystem chiefly to the human. He added, government spends billion ringgit on buying machines just to neutralize the contaminated water.

For the past one week, a recycle campaign had been held in IIUM campus. The committees distributed flyers on recycling campaign to the IIUM students at CAC (Cultural Activities Centre). There were many games on environment preservation along with lucky draw. Around 50 students and lecturers of Economics and Management Kulliyyah participated to support this campaign.

The ceremony ended at 1 p.m. and souvenirs were given to the speaker and other lecturers as a symbol of appreciation.

Gombak, Fri- Over than 200 students of International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) attend the International Career Carnival 2009 (ICC 09) that started today in Midvalley Megamall.

All students from various courses had gathered in front of IIUM Grand Stairs as early as 7.30 am, where the university has provided buses for their transportation.

IIUM Alumni and Career Services Division (ALUMNI) has provided four buses for this purpose in order to give convenience and comfort for the students.

ICC 09 is open to all Malaysian universities and colleges, alumni, and graduates with the purpose of exposing them to the international job market as well as access to the knowledge of expertise in Malaysia for internationally employing organizations.

The carnival was held at Hall 1, Mid Valley Exhibition Centre (MVEC) starting from 31 July until 2 August 2009.

Source: Nur Elina

IIUM,7 August 2009- The opening ceremony of Islamic Festival ’09 (i-fest) organized by Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Heritage Students’ Society was launched by the Deputy Dean of Islamic Revealed Knowledge, Asst. Prof. Dr. Mohd Farid Mohd Shahran today at IIUM Experimental Hall.

Beginning from 7-16 August, the festival choose the theme of “Towards Creating an Exemplary Muslim Ummah” as their motivation this year. Among the interesting programs offered are IRK Sport Day, Workshop on Entrepreneurship, Islamic Mega Business, IT Workshop on Web Making and many more.

The ceremony begins at 8 p.m. until 11 p.m. with the crowd of 60 students on the theme talk of “Deviant Thought and its Challenges to the Muslim Community” by Dr. Syamsuddin Arif from the Department of General Studies.

There are also a multimedia presentation and nasyeed performance by Indonesian nasyeed group, Al-Amin Voice. Other than that, there is also question and answer session on the theme talk from the students to the speaker.

These 10 days festival was sponsored by Kementerian Penerangan, Perbadanan Kemajuan Negeri Selangor (PKNS), Bank Rakyat and (YAPEIM) as the official sponsors.