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An e-leaming website is very useful, especially for students and lecturers, as this platform is very efficient for blended learning. Thus, the main objective of this research was to determine the user expectations of e-leaming websites of comprehensive universities through localisation based on user preferences. This research showed how users interact with e-leaming websites and indicated the patterns that can be used as standard guidelines to design the best e-leaming websites. It was found localisation of e-leaming websites was scarce and slow interaction with e-leaming websites has inconvenienced users. Additionally, too many web objects on the user interface of e-leaming websites have a tendency to confuse users. A mixed method approach was used I this study, namely content analysis (qualitative) and localisation (quantitative). Thus, this research contributes to knowledge by guiding users on localising their web objects according to their preferences and hopefully allow for an easy and quick information search for e-leaming websites. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scholarship on Christianity in Malaysia has been dominated by denominational church history, as well as the study of urban, middle-class and English-speaking church congregations in the post-Independence period. In focusing on the vernacular Chinese Protestant church in Malaysia, and one of its most prominent para-church organisations, called The Bridge, this paper draws attention to the variegated histories of Christian conversion and dissemination in Malaysia, and the various modes and meanings of Christian identity as incorporated into different local communities and cultures. The history of the Chinese Protestant church suggested in the first part of the paper takes as its point of departure the distinction between mission and migrant churches, the latter being the origin of the vernacular Chinese churches in Malaysia. The second part of the paper traces the emergence of a Chinese para-church lay organisation called The Bridge, and the Chinese Christian intellectuals behind it, in their mission to engage the larger Chinese and national public through literary publications and other media outreach activities. In so doing, these Chinese Christian intellectuals also drew on the resources of an East Asian and overseas Chinese Christian network, while searching for their destiny as Chinese Christians in the national context of Malaysia. By pointing to the importance of regional, Chinese-language Christian networks, and the complexity of vernacular Christian subjectivity, the paper hopes to fill a gap in the existing literature on Christianity in Malaysia, as well as make a contribution to on-going debates on issues of localisation, globalisation and authenticity in global Christianity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Japanese manufacturers tend to export their HRM practices when they set up plants abroad. However, Japanese subsidiaries around the world do not adopt fully to the Japanese HRM practices. Due to the differences, we adopt a case study that addresses on the HRM practices of a Japanese subsidiary in Malaysia. This research serves as a valuable lesson for other Japanese investors when formulating their HRM strategies abroad. The findings suggest that new Japanese investors need not attempt to be more Japanese than the local Japanese firms in Japan in view that most subsidiaries are already localising their HRM practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]