What is UNOS? UNOS is a combination of mobile phone software integrated with a telecommunication and service delivery platform, enabling the user’s mobile phone with push messaging systems, dynamic service delivery applications and powerful PBX features.
UNOS has a fully integrated messaging system and it equips users with push e-mail and FREE SMS functionality on their existing mobile phones.
More importantly, UNOS has a service delivery system where enterprises, organisations and institutions can deliver specific services to their users via the UNOS, e.g. mobile banking, stock quote request, airline ticket booking.
When these services are requested by a user, they are pushed into a specific folder in the user’s mobile phone. Users can also use this function to request for information and send authenticated and secured transactions.
Service Delivery functions are pushed into the MIDlet via a UNOS Mobile Converter.
UNOS is service provider and mobile infrastructure neutral.
UNOS’s services can operate on any network in any country (e.g. GSM, PCN, WCDMA), and services can be accessed and triggered via GPRS, EDGE, 3G, WIFI, WIMAX.
It is a truly a global solution and we were recognized as a Top innovator in GSMA Asia Mobile Innovation Awards, and won the Mobile Monday Audience Award at the GSMA Mobile Innovation Summit in Macau.
This year, Frost & Sullivan selected UNOS for the Telecom Award for the Most Innovative Application/Product of the Year.
Benefit to Users
- FREE Push Email Solution on their mobile phone. If they have compatible mobile phones, simply download the application and define their email, and all mails will be pushed to them for free. (no need to buy or subscribe to an expensive Blackberry plan);
- UNOS has compression technology that compresses emails by 70%, users do not need to pay high data charges;
- users will have a comprehensive PBX features on their mobile phones. They will be able to launch teleconference calls, activate roam free service, make IDD calls from their mobile phones for a fraction of the cost, plus many more features. This is a great opportunity to improve productivity while at the same time save costs.
UNOS is a total communication tool - a tool that will benefit all users. UNOS is able to service any user from any country, and as such, we are able to offer this solution to all users which a mobile phone, anywhere around the world.
How to download the software?
Simply type get.myunos.com on the phone browser and the system will do the rest. It will check to see if the phone is compatible, prompt the user to download the application, and once downloaded, the user simply define their emails and all mails will be pushed to them.
PBX features are also ready for use without any further configuration.
Money not everything....
"Money not everything, students told." It is reported in The Star newspaper today (3rd May 2006) that the Higher Education Minister of Malaysia, Datuk Mustapa Mohamed had said that students must have a strong sense of nationalism and patriotism, and should return home to serve the country after completing their studies. He said that despite the lower financial reward in the government service, the students should be proud to serve the Government, just like many other doctors who continued to be in the civil service although they could have opted for private practice.
Is patriotism and love for your country enough? Attracting medical graduates back to Malaysia with those reasons is akin to baiting sharks with nothing but worms. Take into consideration the investment it takes to put a student through medical school. To be a general practitioner, one must undergo five to six years of study, another four if they wish to specialize. This is two or three times longer the time other non-medical students spend earning their degree. Shouldn’t a doctor’s pay be scaled up more if not similarly? A doctor is a highly skilled professional. Getting paid the same amount as a junior executive in a corporate company is almost an insult.
It is not quite fair to say that money is the motivating factor. It is simply earning enough money to support oneself and be comfortable. GPs in Malaysia earn relatively little, especially in their houseman ship years. Goods and services in Malaysia are getting more expensive everyday, thanks to rising oil prices, inflation and high population demand. How can one hope to survive, much less be comfortable? Doctors get shuffled around the public hospitals, which are still nowhere near the standards of hospitals in equivalent countries, making for poor working environments.
Patriotism alone will not feed, support or motivate local doctors entirely. You need better opportunities and respect for them. You need a better public healthcare system.
These comments may be common amongst Malaysian overseas students, not only in the medical field but generally across other professional fields. However, others may see it at different angle. I would personally think that if overseas students are given the opportunity to stay and work for a couple of years, it might be an advantage to the human capital of the country.
We cannot deny the fact that globalization is affecting us. The government cannot rely on simple verbal encouragement such as nationalism and patriotism to encourage overseas graduates to return immediately upon graduation. I am also not denying that Malaysians overseas are not patriotic. Many of them stayed overseas to gain more experience and resources in hope that they will excel one day in their home country.
Many Malaysians have asked themselves whether they have been given a fair chance in pursuing their preferred courses at local universities, and especially medicine is the one course with toughest entry. In actual fact, it is one course with toughest entry due to high ‘Bumiputera’ quota. It is also a fact that most overseas students consist of ‘non-Bumiputeras’. Most ‘non-Bumi’ Malaysians have accepted the fact that NEP was implemented and they are hoping that the ‘Bumis’ will achieve the 30% of the country’s equity at soonest possible. In hope that this will then allow non-racial preference in local education policies.
But when the 8th Malaysia Plan Mid-term Review clearly states that the Chinese hold 40.9% of equity compared to 18.7% by ‘Bumiputeras’, the shares measured at par-not market capitalisation or the earnings or net worth of the company. In simple terms, any person can see that a share in a sundry shop cannot be equated to a share say in Petronas or Genting. In fact, Government Linked Corporations (GLCs) alone make up 35% of the Bursa Malaysia and 81% of their directors are ‘Bumiputeras’. It cannot also be argued that GLCs are not ‘Bumiputera’-owned when our Second Finance Minister, Nor Mohd Yackop openly delared on August 8, 2005 in The Edge that the GLCs are indeed a ‘Bumiputera’ agenda.
I would also like mention that equity ownership does not represent wealth. Wealth is generated by income-expenditures and is measured in terms of GNP or GDP. Wealth is not ownership in shares. Again in simple terms, if one does not own shares, does that mean they have no wealth at all?
Equally, it is absurd to say that the Chinese own 40.9% of the nation's GDP, the ‘Bumiputeras’ only 18.9% and the Indians only 1.5%, even though the government have been leading us to believe that it is so.
To make matters worse, a simple example is that the Malaysian Students Department (MSD) even implemented regulations that the national student council must be chaired by a ‘Bumiputera’ on every alternate year. This is at least confirmed to be practiced by the Malaysian Students Department of Australia. How are students expected to feel the love for nationalism and patriotism when such practice is implemented nine thousand miles away from your home country? The MSD should have no excuse in implementing such policies when student council members are elected through democratic processes. It is not to blame when students see this as an advantage the government is taking through local policies. Consideration must be taken that most overseas students are exposed to the freedom of press and non-racial preference policies practiced by first-world countries.
By creating 'imaginary enemies' amongst the Malaysian society through racial policies, it will further deepen the disparity and unity of our multicultural society. Let alone, issues of nationalism and patriotism.
It is once said that ‘it is not what the country can do for you, but it is what you can do for your country’. As a Malaysian, I still live by that phrase. Although constantly being questioned by foreigners of the unfair quotas being practiced, I always defend the fact that the policy is to create a stronger human capital for the country due to the past demographic of racial imbalance in respect to educational resources.
Political speeches have lost its effects when opportunities are given one after another, and yet, no show of significant improvement was taken. Needless to say, government policies over the years have not effectively moved the passion of Malaysians overseas to contribute their expertise. I have come across many that have tried to take up incentives that the government had implemented, such as 'Malaysia My Second Home' and purchases of tax-free cars. Again, such policies sound attractive but was never actively promoted or given much importance to it.
The government has to show more sincerity in attracting the cream of Malaysian human capital overseas. A simple speech of nationalism and patriotism without an action is akin to baiting sharks with nothing but worms.
By, Chan Wei Ming
An interview with ex-officer of the colony of British Commonwealth
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BIOPROCESS ENGINEERING SOCIAL ISSUE COLUMN, Faculty of Chemical and Natural Resources Engineering, University Technology Malaysia, 81310, UTM Skudai, Johore, Malaysia. Tel : +60-7-5535501 Fax : +60-7-5581463 www.fkkksa.utm.my
This is the informal speech with one of the British officer during the 1950s. Interviewed privately in London, United Kingdom between 17 July 2005-25 July 2005.
Dear Malaysians,
This is the first message that I would like to address to all of you after more than 30 years of the independence of Malaya. Previously I was the officer of Malaya in 1950-1955 and I am glad that I have been interviewed although I have retired.
I really would like to congratulate Malayan (Malaysian) for being able to rule the country successfully. I am happy to see that all races of Malaysians are able to unite under the ruling of the 5th prime minister.
As the ex-official of Malaya, here I wish to remind all groups to be more aware of the current situation of the world. Although Malaya has successfully established as one of the advanced country in the third world, but there are several hindrances towards the proper development. Corruption among the officials in the government administration of Malaysia, of which notorious even in the Western world, will always bring nothing good and this has never happened before during my service in Malaya.
In fact I am very happy to know that Malaya (Malaysia) has been moving towards industrialization and moreover, one noble vision has been proposed by your ex-prime-minister Mahathir Mohammad in year 2020. These are the good starts and I am happy to hear that. Previously I hear from one of the professor of history that our british has been blamed to create the disintegration and disunity among the British colonized nations inclusive of Malaya. I feel that is totally not fair for the British.
Malaya (Malaysia) has been given more than 30 years to rule the nations and I expected previously that He could perform better than current situation, with reference to the case of Japan and Korea. Your nationalists claimed 30 years ago that the country could perform better even without the residency of British colony, but the situation even after more than 45 years has proven to the world that the development of Malaya is still far lag behind the Great Britain and some commonwealth countries, of which the names are not to be mentioned here.
Our British even has been blamed to interrupt with the internal affairs of your country even during the May 13, in year 1969. This is totally unfair for us, and the current history also mention that our British colony is intending to train Malay as a farmer, fisherman, padi planter and so on….leading to the poverty of Malay ethic? But first I would like to ask Malay nationalists whether there is anything wrong with the attitude of your own ethnic group?
British and other advanced country like Japan and Switzerland, most of the fishermen and farmers have big piece of land, big car and big houses. The difference from you is that they are able to spend time to learn and research based on scientific skills rather than waiting for others to serve you.
I still remember the story told by my colleague 50 years ago that he had been asked to leave the mosque by a few Muslem extremists when he tried to conduct population survey in the area near Pasir Mas. These “special” group in fact has created a lot of problems to my country currently and I am very regret to hear that some expert terrorists are from Malaysia, intending to convert Malaya into the Islamic country, abandoning the secularity and excellence inherited from the British colony.
What I am going to warn these “al-Queda” in Malaysia, is that… please do not simply resort to any violence to gain the victory in any political affair or you will lose your whatever priority altogether inherited after 1969. The current British government will never simply let it off based on the views of current press.
Chinese population, the second largest group in Malaya, is very good in business and even some companies in United States have been controlled by your ethnic. Excellent in business skills do not mean good in political areas. I predicted 44 years ago that there should be one Prime Minister either from Chinese or Indian group but up to now it has never happen.
The British has met before with Chinese staring from Ming Dinasty, if my memory is still all right. My grandfather had told me before that in fact Chinese is a very intelligent ethnic when he first interacted with this group during his travel to China when I was 12 years old. Chinese has inherited the culture and knowledge from his ancestors more than 5000 years ago, yet still lost to the Western military during the war with Ching dynasty at the end of 19 century.
The arrogance, superstitious and negative values has led them lost to us. Moreover, what I feel is that is that Chinese in fact has the bad habit of creating internal warfairs among themselves once achieving success. Although my age is more than 80 yet I still remember the civil war between Communist and Kuomintang after Japan being defeated in World War II.
In the last Lunar New Year in the Central of London, I and my grandchild had been introduced the tradition of Chinese dynasty. The culture looked nice and I like it very much, but still I remember that what is happening to the supporting officers and friends… even relatives of Han and Ming dynasty…one by one being killed by the emperors.
My grandchild, who is the history lecturer in University of Birmingham, once told me that the competition between Sun and Yuen after the collapse of Monarch system in China has set the worst model for the Chinese tradition. I believe Chinese will absolutely agree with me, and that is the reason why Chinese ethnic is not able to fully triumph politically to the “outdated, uncivilized main group”.
…and even in international business, the competition from Chinese is still far behind the Western group….It may be sarcastic to comment that they are lack of research and short-sighted in gaining fast return, unlike our people who keep on finding new ways to improve our tactics in trade.
I hope really that what I say will never harm anybody in Malaysia. In fact I accept this interview because I believe that this is really an open forum and the people in Malaya is able to differentiate the truth. I read from current press that the standard of education of Malaya (Malaysia) now is quite high and I believe there should be nothing sentitive in my speech, as you are from the educated or even highly educated group – able to think independently and be able to differentiate the truth.
This is my sincere advice to you especially the youngster Malaysia nowadays, be united and keep on finding solutions to help your country to prosper.
I especially advise the Malay elite to give…good examples to the people, finding better ways to solve the poverty among the Malay population mainly. Our British has inherited a lot of advanced scientific skills for you to learn and progress, and more importantly please do not involved yourselves in any religious militant activity that will finally hurt yourselves. For Chinese, Indian and minor population, remember to unite and communicate properly with each others, make sure the country run properly. You are Malaysian now and that that is your responsibility to help the country to prosper.
I believe I am able to see Malaya, that I have serviced for more than 10 years, able to progress as advanced as us. You are in fact more fortunate than your grandparents a century ago and please do not go back to your old land. Malaya is the place for you to serve where you have the political power to change the country towards advancement, unlike your neighbouring country like Indonesia and Philipines of which the majority are suffering in poverty.
I will be happy if my words could change Malaya into British (laughing, meaning in term of the standard of living). That is the wishes from the ex-officer of the colony of British Commonwealth.
“To heed the Drums of ASEAN is to begin from Home”
by Fui K. Soong
“From Malaysia to Australia, and back….”
The Malaysian local newspapers noted how awkward and miserable Australia’s Prime Minister John Howard looked because he was troubled by the riots in the beaches of Sydney. To me, this was how he looked most of the time even when as an Opposition leader to then Prime Minister, Paul Keating.
But when I saw the picture of a burnt Chinese church in the Suburb of Auburn, Sydney yesterday it struck my heart to know how many similar churches just like that one are sprawled all over Australia today. The deep brown bricks and the plain alloy windows indicate the simplicity embraced in the Protestant religion is typical of Chinese churches built on meager funding and frugality of a migrant community.
And for years, my parents, my brothers and I like so many migrant families from Malaysia and Singapore congregate with other Chinese families from Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and others. Hymns were sung and sermons preached in Mandarin and English but the conversations you hear after service in the church compound under those tall gum trees would be mutterings of heavily accented Hong Kong Cantonese, or Hakka as well as Mandarin. While the young, usually more the boisterous lot would have the bluest of blue Australian twangs.
To me, it was hard to imagine that something like this would happen in Australia because it has always been dubbed the “land of plenty”, or to be more biblical, ”land flowing with milk and honey” and lots of sand and flies to add! Sure, we used to violent rouses here and there. When I was at University, you would hear people go gay-bashing, boo at old ladies crossing the roads, or pick on the Asians. These were more nuisances rather than a serious social issue. And also about 13 years ago, Perth saw a bout of neo-Nazism, calling themselves the Australian National Movement aimed at Asians led by a man named Van Tongaren who was finally caught and jailed, and was just recently released after time served. Then of course, we had the infamous Pauline Hanson, the controversial MP of One Nation. My mother’s rationale why she hates Asians so much was because her failed fish and chip shop was probably next door to a Chinese take-away, eating up all her business!
But this time round, the race riot feels uncomfortably different to me. It feels to me a sense of anger deeper than just a fleeting extremist ideology or vengeance of some discontented youths but rather, a racial pressure cooker without an outlet. Whether you like it or not, it is also linked to religious differences. Even though, the people attacking the Muslims and/or people of Arab descent do not strike me as particularly Christian-like themselves. So the same goes for our erroneous labeling of ‘Islamic terrorists’.
Fast forwarding time, and having lived in Malaysia for the past 12 years now, I am transported now to the Post-Mathahir era, post-Asian Crisis period and in the mid way journey towards Vision 2020. It is another dimension from what I had imagined it to be when I first returned in 1993. Reading the stories of the clashes in Paris and now Sydney, I ponder on the lives of our future generation from Malaysia to Australia. KL recently hosted the East Asian Summit (EAS) calling for renewed cooperation in East Asia. It came and went, winning both praise and criticisms all round. Dr. Mahathir was weary of the Antipodean sub-fusions (The Star) while former DPM Anwar Ibrahim said it was not a threat to Malaysia’s friend, the United States (The Asian Wall Street Journal). To add to complicate the Asian flavour, Russia is seen nudging in the crowded room of diplomacy preoccupied with primarily mending the Sino-Japan-Korea fences.
Heeding the ASEAN drumbeat Our Prime Minister, on the other hand beamed with pride to declare that we are to be ‘one community’. What will it take to be one community so boldly declared, among the 10 nations while maintaining that it would be one with China as its centre of the economic sphere. And to complicate matters, was Islamization sufficiently addressed in those contexts?
To say that East Asia can achieve a commonality in ideology is actually where our answers lie. But if we are to achieve that, is also to say we can throw away our racial and religious prejudices and biasness. And we are to go for moderation in thought, be sincere about our intentions for nation building, be respectful of other cultures and truly allowing the space for other religion to flourish and be openly practiced. To overcome our own insecurities about our own race, ethnicities, values, cultures and religious beliefs to reach out to others in our communities. It has to begin from home.
The build that bridge is an indeed an ambitious one from where we are standing at the moment. There are many more hurdles that we have to overcome. Our leaders from the farthest North to the furthest South will have to first recognize the flaws that plagues most of our own nations albeit varying degrees; the state of the civil service, the extent of openness towards liberal society, and the treatment of minorities. Where and what are our markers for progress, tolerance and understanding?
The papers candidly highlighted that Koizumi had to borrow Wen’s pen when his did not work during the signing of the EAS. But a good laugh over broken pens does not culminate world peace and understanding. There is much more that needs to be seriously covered in each of our home grounds to ally fears and overcome communal insecurities. Lest we do ourselves the greatest injustice, that is to deny our own weaknesses and failures as a platform to move as towards one community in East Asia with others.
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