Alhamdulillah, all praise is due to Allah for the endless blessings He has showered upon me and my family. After a long wait, I am finally able to unveil my #SECRETPROJECT with all of you who have been kindly praying and patiently waiting…
I AM OFFICIALLY A TEDx SPEAKER!
Yes, I have been blessed yet again with another amazing opportunity! I received this blessed news on the same day I received my double award way back on 8th October. But, since this event was strictly for KES students, parents, teachers, school governors, and Old Edwardians (alumni) only, I was not allowed to announce it until after the event.
I had to go through several stages before even getting selected as one of the speakers. First, I had to write a proposal about the topic of my talk, and fortunately, they were interested in my topic, so they called me in for the next stage, which was an interview. At this stage, I wasn’t putting much hope into getting this, as the possibility to get selected was very narrow, cos the competition was high. But, all praise is due to Allah and only Allah…I passed the interview! And the best part was that I was the only student - out of hundreds of KES students - who had been selected.
I can’t describe how proud I am to have the honour of giving a talk alongside 7 other adults - a Professor Emeritus from London, a Deputy Medical Director who recently won an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire), an actor who has also worked in large-scale science communication, a Physics and Philosophy student from the University of Oxford, an engineering graduate from Durham University, a fourth-year medical student from the University of Birmingham, and the chief executive of Wildlife & Countryside Link.
The main theme for the whole event was 'The Future Of Everything', and my chosen topic was 'Do You Speak The Future?', a talk discussing the future of language and how we can predict it. I’ll discuss about my topic in the next post. For now, allow me to personally thank each and every one of you who has been supporting me and praying for me tirelessly. May The Almighty reward all of you abundantly…
Over the moon,
O. Mukhtar O. Mukhlis
#theomarmukhtar
#officiallyaTEDxspeaker
student emeritus 在 曹長青 Facebook 的最佳貼文
Taiwan talk show host demands truth about Tsai’s doctorate in London
Dennis Peng continues to question the legitimacy of Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen’s PhD after a months-long investigation
By Sophia Yang, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Taiwan talk show host Dennis Peng (彭文正) held a press conference on Friday (Oct. 18) in London, where Taiwan-American professor Hwan C. Lin (林環牆) presented findings from his investigation into Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) PhD.
Despite The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) issuing an official statement on Oct. 8 verifying the validity of Tsai’s PhD, Peng insists on his show, "True Voice of Taiwan,” the degree and dissertation are forged. He recently flew to London, where LSE is located, and joined Lin to demand clarification from the school about whether Tsai met all the relevant PhD requirements.
At the press conference, which was held 2 p.m. local time, Lin, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s Belk College of Business, presented a copy of Tsai’s student record, dated 1984. He claimed that, “Tsai didn’t receive her PhD in law in 1984.”
Peng presented a copy of an email from the LSE Research Support Service dated June 4, 2019, regarding the copy of Tsai's dissertation, "Unfair trade practices and safeguard actions." The school reportedly replied to Lin’s query by saying the school’s library system has never possessed a copy of this thesis.
The pair asked, how could Tsai earn her PhD from LSE without a thesis? They further suggested that Tsai may have used her political influence to get the school to take part in a cover-up by providing a belated thesis copy at the National Central Library.
Peng hopes the press conference in London will pressure LSE to investigate whether Tsai did properly qualify for her doctorate and find out whether the procedure really was legitimate.
National Taiwan University professor emeritus Ho De-fen (賀德芬) in late August accused Tsai of falsely stating she obtained a doctorate from the LSE. Tsai filed a defamation lawsuit against Ho and Lin on Sept. 4.
——原載《Taiwan News》2019年10月19日
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3798873
student emeritus 在 美國在台協會 AIT Facebook 的最讚貼文
為什麼我們會記得「六四事件」?美國普林斯頓大學東亞研究系榮譽教授、加州大學河濱分校校長特聘跨學科講座教授林培瑞 (Perry Link) 闡明了以下原因,也歡迎各位在底下留言,跟我們分享為什麼我們應該記得六四。
(照片:1989年6月3日,一名支持民主的學生示威者,在人民解放軍從天安門廣場附近的人民大會堂西側撤離時,向群眾比出了勝利的手勢) #Tiananmen30 #TiananmenMassacre #June4th
Why DO we remember June 4th? Here are some of the reasons offered by Perry Link, Professor Emeritus of East Asian Studies at Princeton University and Chancellorial Chair for Teaching Across Disciplines at the University of California at Riverside. Tell us in the comments why you think we should remember June 4th.
(*Photo: A student pro-democracy protester flashes a victory sign to the crowd as People’s Liberation Army troops withdraw on the west side of the Great Hall of the People near Tiananmen Square in Beijing, June 3, 1989.)