Category: Malaysian Innovators
Malaysia’s oldest rubber tree is now 146 years old
Posted onPreviously, 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 […]
Basic: What is a NFT?
Posted onRecently, 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 […]
NFT Buzz by Dato’ Dr Anuar Md Nor
Posted onNFT Buzz is a new blog focusing on NFTs, metaverse and related topics. We hope readers will enjoy the blog as usual. Please visit the blog, http://nft.datodranuar.com/wp
Southeast Asian Oil Palms Owe their High Productivity to a Weevil from Cameroon
Posted onThe oil palm industry in Malaysia used to hire thousands of female workers to just manually gather pollen grains from male flowers of oil palms to pollinate female flowers. On average, a group of three workers are required for a every hectare of oil palm plantation. Teams of workers patrolled the oil palm estate daily, […]
Another 140-year old tree: The oldest rubber tree in Malaysia
Posted onThe motor industry in Europe and the US in the early 1900s led to the mad rush for plantation rubber in British Malaya (Malaysia now). There was not enough supply of rubber gathered from the Amazon rainforest of Brazil. A large part of British Malaya was cleared of its forests and planted with rubber trees. […]
Malaysian Invention: Palm Leaf Mid-Rib Separator
Posted onIntroduction Coconut leaf mid-rib or spine has been used extensively as brooms. However, these brooms have been replaced by plastic brooms, which are cheaper. However, these plastic brooms contribute to the problem of plastic wastes. Coconut leaf mid-rib brooms are slightly more expensive as they need to be manually separated from the coconut leaves by […]
The More Bizarre Food: Porcupine Bezoar
Posted onIntroduction We are a keen follower of the host of The Bizarre Food, Mr. Andrew Zimmern. He eats all kinds of bizarre food. In the many episodes, we had not watched him eat a most bizarre food, namely porcupine bezoar. Porcupine bezoar is a very expensive herbal food in traditional Chinese medicine. The Chinese believe […]
Edible Bird’s Nest is more than Just Soup and Dessert
Posted onIntroduction There are more than twenty four species of swift distributed around the world, but only a few species that produce nests that are deemed edible. The majority of edible bird’s nests consumed worldwide come from two species, namely Aerodramus fuciphogus and Aerodramus maximus . They can be found in areas covering Nicobar Islands, Thailand, […]
Organizational Innovation in the Rubber Plantation Industry in the Form of Agency Houses: Part II
Posted onBackground 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 […]