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Malaysia’s oldest rubber tree is now 146 years old

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Previously, we highlighted a rubber tree in Kuala Kangsar, Perak, Malaysia. It was the surviving tree among 22 rubber seedlings brought from England. In 1877, a total of 22 rubber seedlings were brought into the country from Kew Gardens, England. Of the 22 seedlings, nine were sown in Kuala Kangsar. This is the only surviving […]

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Basic: What is a NFT?

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Recently, the media has seemed to catch on the new invention—NFTs. NFT is a unique, non-interchangeable digital asset basked by blockchain ledger technology. Non fungible characteristic of these tokens or assets refers to the unique and non-replicable nature of this digital-crypto assets, compared to, for example a Bitcoin or a US$1 bill, where each unit […]

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Organizational Innovation in the Rubber Plantation Industry in the Form of Agency Houses: Part II

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Background In the early phase of the rubber industry in early 1900s, investors and speculators floated companies, which owned rubber estates or rubber lands in Malaya, on the London Stock Exchange. Their estates in major states like Selangor and Negri Sembilan had English-sounding names. Some of the English-sounding names included: Aranlife Balgownie Beaumont Blackwater Braemer […]