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The Kuala Lumpur Education City (KLEC) is expected to sign deals with at least two more British universities by the end of the year,

Malaysia is in talks with Indonesia about possible co-operation on developing both nations' defence industries.

Malaysia's private institutions of higher learning are being encouraged to offer more research and development post-graduate courses and programmes by Higher Education Minister Mohamed Khaled Nordi.

A study by Scheherazade S Rehman and Hossein Askari from George Washington University, published in the Global Economy Journal Vol 10 drew surprising conclusions. The study examined if policies of Muslim countries (or Muslim majority countries) were founded on Islamic principles in comparison to non-Muslim countries. 208 countries were studied. The criteria: economic opportunity, economic freedom, corruption, financial systems and human rights were used to measure the level of 'Islamicity' (based on an information website about Islam and Muslims). The study found that most Islamic countries did not conduct themselves according to Islamic principles concerning economic, financial, political, legal, social and governance issues.