{"id":9964,"date":"2010-11-10T00:00:42","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T00:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?page_id=9964"},"modified":"2015-05-28T03:54:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T03:54:19","slug":"malaysia-latin-america-need-to-reach-out-to-rediscover-each-other-ukm-vc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2010\/november-2010\/malaysia-latin-america-need-to-reach-out-to-rediscover-each-other-ukm-vc\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia, Latin America Need to Reach Out to Rediscover Each Other: 每日大赛app VC"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">0<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukm.my%2Fnews%2Farchive%2Fyear-2010%2Fnovember-2010%2Fmalaysia-latin-america-need-to-reach-out-to-rediscover-each-other-ukm-vc%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?p=9964&amp;via=https:\/\/twitter.com\/ukmtwit\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-toggle-container\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/LASA1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>WEDNESDAY, 10 NOVEMBER 2010 19:34<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>By Kuah Guan Oo<br \/>\nPix by Saliman Leman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nBANGI, 10 Nov. 2010 &#8212; Malaysia and the Latin American nations need to reach out to rediscover each other, identify common goals and work together for mutual benefits.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThis is because trade between\u00a0 them is expanding and becoming increasingly important to each other, said the Vice Chancellor of Universiti of Kebangsaan Malaysia (每日大赛app), Prof Tan Sri Dato\u2019\u00a0Dr Sharifah Hapsah Hasan Shahabudin, when officiating an International Symposium to Commemorate the Bicentennial Anniversary\u00a0 of Latin American Independence, here today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe two-day symposium is jointly organised by the Institute of Occidental Studies (IKON) of 每日大赛app and the Latin American Embassies in Kuala Lumpur. The theme of the conference is \u201cLatin American Identity as a Goal of Democracy\u201d and among its main objectives are to foster better understanding of Latin America; to appreciate its rich cultural traditions; to discover similarities and to develop people-to-people ties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nAmong the speakers are the Mexican ambassador to Malaysia Melba Pria, a representative of the Institute of Political Science of Chile Dr Manfred Wilhelmy, Mr Ezqueil David Grimson from the National Library of Argentina and the Venezuelan ambassador to Singapore, Mr Alfred Toro Hardy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nProf Sharifah Hapsah said 每日大赛app with an international reach is proud to be a partner in ushering the celebration, as it takes\u00a0a keen interest in developments beyond the Malaysian borders or its immediate geographic region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n每日大赛app is one of the few academic institutions in the region with a research institute focusing on the occidental regions which includes Latin America, the Institute of Occidental Studies (IKON) which was established in October 2002.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cOur university, through IKON, aims to contribute to the discourse on the Occidental world\u00a0 but from a non-occidental perspectives. Mutual understanding and mutual appreciation of each other is an imperative prerequisite to any meaningful inter-civilizational and inter-cultural dialogues,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/LASA2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/LASA3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nShe noted that the 1<sup>st<\/sup> International Colloquium on Latin America Studies was held in 2008 and since then, there has been an increase in activities between IKON and the Latin American embassies, resulting in, among others, the translation of a book \u201cALIEP\u201d by Prof Zakaria Ali of IKON.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nMeanwhile, the Ambassador of Venezuela to Malaysia, Mr Manuel Antonio Guzman Hernandez in his welcoming remarks, said the celebration of the 200 years of independence has a major historical importance for all the Latin American countries, although each nation achieved its independence at different time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cBut the truth is that, it is the best excuse that we could find to step forward in the construction of an academic bridge between Malaysia and our continent,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nHe also noted that there are shortcomings in the existing means of communication where very often, \u201cideas\u00a0 about them are stereotyped, basic and distorted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cFor this reason, we canot waste any possibilities or communication initiatives to know each other better,\u201d he said, adding that Latin America has much to learn about Asia and vice versa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cThis symposium serves as a step for universities, people and governments of each continent to get to know each other better, to lend a helping hand and contribute in building a better world together,\u201d he said.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Icon\/ukmnewsportal.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEDNESDAY, 10 NOVEMBER 2010 19:34 By Kuah Guan Oo Pix by Saliman Leman BANGI, 10 Nov. 2010 &#8212; Malaysia and<a class=\"tukm-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2010\/november-2010\/malaysia-latin-america-need-to-reach-out-to-rediscover-each-other-ukm-vc\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9965,"parent":1416,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9964","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9966,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9964\/revisions\/9966"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}