Universiti Malaya

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... at the University of Malaya.

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I wanted to know, because it is the past that determines the present and the future.

Exposing moderately trained men to chocolate odors right before and between sets of resistance exercise significantly increased their overall training volume without increasing their perceived exertion.

This came out of the University of Malaya, seeing a substantial increase in repetitions without the athletes feeling like they were exerting themselves any harder.

This is a fascinating psychological outcome, says senior author Mohamed Nashruddin.

The study took 23 healthy men in their early to mid-20s who were moderately trained.

Yeah, so the global security landscape is becoming increasingly uncertain from the war in the Middle East and rising Russian-NATO tension to Japan's growing focus on defence.

On today's Breakfast Grill, Sherrod Curtin speaks with Thomas Daniel of ISIS Malaysia and Peter T.C. Chang of the Institute of China Studies at University of Malaya.

about these shifting geopolitical realities and the future of the international order and what that means for ASEAN.

Let's keep the conversation on China then and speak about their economics, because China's economy appears to be on a bit of a dual track.

So what's behind the move? And what does it mean for hundreds of thousands of Rohingya forced out of their country? I'm Imran Khan, and you're listening to the Inside Story podcast, where we dissect, analyze, and help define major global stories.

And let's bring in our guests in Kuala Lumpur, Far Kim Beng, Director of the Institute of International and ASEAN Studies and Geopolitics Professor at the University of Malaysia.

In Washington, D.C., Lucky Karim, democracy and human rights advocate and the founder of Refugee Women for Peace and Justice, who was forced to flee her home in Myanmar at the age of 14 in 2017 and spent six years in the world's largest refugee camp in Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh.

And in Kent, in the UK, Moang Zani, genocide scholar and co-founder of the Scholar Activist Network, Forces of Renewal Southeast Asia.

Yeah.

We also see this in another fascinating study from the University of Malaya, which focused on a 10-day intermittent fasting model.

Oh, like Ramadan.

Very similar to the patterns observed during Ramadan, yes, where athletes fast completely from dawn to sunset.

I'm really looking forward to unpacking this one today.

Yeah, me too, because today's mission revolves around this really fascinating exploratory study out of the University of Malaya.

It was published in Frontiers in Physiology in July 2026.

Right.

We want to see what is the extent of public trust on the police.

Now, I also understand that Alliance Centre for Governance is based in University of Malaya.

Correct.

So what is their sort of investment in such a study? Why is it that they thought a study of the police was necessary?

And in my field of study, because my background is in media and crime, and it's so apt for me to look at police misconduct, that is something I'm very interested in.

And therefore, it was very aligned with what I was doing and what the vision and mission of the centre was.

So your university, the centre based in University of Malaya, more importantly, was PDRM itself involved? I mean, did the police offer you cooperation? And have they welcomed the study?

Okay, so we wanted to be, we did not want to be any biased in the study.

I'm actually experiencing right now and participating in the placement of AI at the top of this agenda.

As you said, I'm in Nanning, where the Chinese Academy of Information and Communication Technology, CAICT, and University of Malaya's Center for ASEAN Regionalism, we're co-launching this function evaluation system for indigenizing AI in such a way that it respects the cultural models and the languages of Southeast Asia and of the rest of the Global South.

So we're here literally sort of building the infrastructure for civilizational AI.

So it's really far-sighted and sort of deep thinking.

The, the trend has gained, um, considerable reach because it is highly adaptable and, and relatable.

Um, we are now joined by our, uh, first guest for this segment, which is Mike, uh, Thalwall, who is a professor in the School of Information, Journalism, and Communication, uh, at the University of Sheffield and also at the University of Malaya Peking University and the University of Wolverhampton.

He has res-- uh, he has researched, uh, sentiment analysis and language use on social media for a long time, including, um, Twitter, um, known as X, uh, Reddit, TikTok, and YouTube after starting with one of the bi-- first big social network sites, MySpace.

Um, so, uh, Professor Mike Thelwall, good morning.