UK in Malaysia

we celebrated Chevening Awards 40th Anniversary with #Scottish Minister of State Ian Murray at the iconic #KLTower. Malaysia is the second largest recipient of #Chevening awards in #ASEAN and there are already over 2,000 Chevening Alumni Malaysia.

#Scottish Minister of State Ian Murray is on his first visit to Malaysia. Today he called on Ministry of Economy Minister Rafizi Ramli to discuss economic partnership, and 🇲🇾’s progress on carbon capture & storage legislation.

#CountdownToCPTPP! What does #CPTPP mean for British and Malaysian businesses? Certainty for movement of professionals including business visitors and intra-corporate transferees.

#16DaysofActivism We cannot achieve gender equality if we do not tackle #GBV. We are proud to be supporting partners across the world to deliver survivor-centred, locally led approaches to #EndGBV and realise the #RightsFreedomPotential of women & girls.

#CountdownToCPTPP! What does #CPTPP mean for British and Malaysian businesses? Access to government contracts procurement on equal terms as domestic suppliers.

Today is the start of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence (GBV), a global campaign to galvanise international action to end violence against women and girls. The Campaign runs annually from 25 November - International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women to 10 December - International Human Rights Day. The UK has pioneered approaches around the world that have shown reductions in violence of around 50% in less than three years. #16daysofactivism

Excited to announce that we are working with Malaysian and British partners for an exciting #STEM school project. Follow us for more updates. #MYGREATSTEM #SeeThingsDifferently

This year, the UK and Malaysia continued our green finance collaboration through a new partnership working through MOBILIST and Bursa Malaysia to tap into the potential of Malaysia's public capital markets to close the climate finance and investment gap. 

Having been elected to the Chevening Alumni Malaysia (CAM) Committee in 2024, one of my goals is to leverage the diverse expertise and network of the CAMmunity to give back to underserved communities — as part of a broader mission to democratize healthcare in Malaysia. Following a CAM Health Hub networking session in March, a couple of Cheveners came together to conceptualize a bid proposal (within five days!) for the global Chevening Alumni Programme Fund. In June, we were thrilled to be selected — receiving this news was almost as exciting as getting the Chevening scholarship! Project Healthy Futures is an inaugural community project by the CAM Health Hub, which aims to promote vaccination and speech language development for child & adolescent health among Orang Asli (indigenous people) in Malaysia.  🤝 From the outset, our approach was centered on community engagement. We adopted a participatory approach to health education — we spoke to community leaders/members to co-design materials that were culturally relevant and resonated with the specific beliefs and concerns of the Orang Asli. Through trust and collaboration, this approach helped overcome barriers like vaccine hesitancy and raised awareness of early childhood development issues. 🤝 Drawing on expertise in public health, community engagement, behavioral science, community pharmacy, speech-language development, communications and more, 25 CAMrades and volunteers contributed to four workstreams over the past three months: community engagement, communications & media, event management, and health education. It was an absolute joy to co-lead this project with Devi Shantini Rata Mohan alongside the brilliant Core Team 🌟 Chia Yi Tay | Edmund Ross Williams Hunt | Shiau Hueh Yeow | Meera Sahani | Murallitharan Munisamy. A huge shoutout to our amazing CAMrades & volunteers who brought so much energy and creativity ❤️ Viviantie Sarjuni | Cui Ying Ee | Joyce Toh Ker Ro | Nicholas Yee Liang Hing | Sr Kavitha Seras | Safiya Mohd Razif | Russell Rohny | Nisha Kaur Gill | Ming Lee Chin | Abigail Nathan | Navittra Sagar | Nur Hazirah Mohamad | Sonia Lasong | Jou Ling Teoh | Nur Afifah Ismail | Mohd Izwan Zainol | Cho Kai Shuo | Zafirah Mahirah Thankful to our partners who made this project possible: Chevening Awards CAPF | Chevening Alumni Malaysia | UK in Malaysia including our service delivery partners National Cancer Society Malaysia for free HPV vaccination and Malaysian Association of Speech-Language & Hearing for free speech-language development screening.  Here’s to building a stronger CAMmunity that serves the community in Malaysia! PS: Photos shared with consent.