21 March 2008
QUALIFICATIONS AGENCY TO SWITCH OFF TO MARK WORLD SILENT DAY
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PETALING JAYA: All Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA) staff will turn off all their electronic appliances for two-and-a-half hours today .
MQA chief executive officer Datuk Dr Syed Ahmad Hussein said this was organised in conjunction with World Silent Day.
“This means all of us at MQA must switch off our computers, printers, scanners, photocopy machines, lights and air conditioners,” he said when contacted.
Dr Syed Ahmad said he received an e-mail on World Silent Day recently.
“I had never heard of the day until I received the e-mail,” he said.
According to the World Silent Day website, the Bali Non-Government Organisation (NGO) Collaboration for Climate Change is appealing to communities all over the world to switch off electronic appliances for four hours on March 21 to tackle global warming.
The website also states that this was inspired by the “Nyepi” (Day of Silence) practised by the Balinese for many centuries, where for 24 hours, people do not travel, work or light the lamps at night.
Dr Syed Ahmad said since its in-house club, the MQA Welfare Club was looking for an activity, its members decided to take part in this event.
“We wanted to do our bit for the environment and do what we could to save energy,” he said.
Source: The Star Malaysia
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April 4th, 2008 at 11:24 am
in rest silance
April 5th, 2008 at 3:37 am
Hi .. . My name Sandy, why not use Balinese Silent Day to be International Silent Day?