Tun Mahathir Lecture Series




Last 13th December 2010, Tun Mahathir Lecture Series was held in Uniten. The lecture is base on the topic “Globalizing Malaysian in 2020”.  This is the list about the program tentative.



9.00 a.m : Arrival of Guests
9.40 a.m : Arrival of Y.Bhg Tan Sri Leo Moggie
Chairman Board of Director, UNITEN
 9.45 a.m : Arrival of Y.A.Bhg Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad
10.00 a.m : National Anthem
: UNITEN Song
: Doa Recital
10.15 a.m : Welcoming Address by Y.Bhg Tan Sri Leo Moggie
 10.30 a.m : UNITEN Tun Mahathir Lecture Series by
Y.A.Bhg Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad
"Globalizing Malaysians in 2020"
11.30 a.m : Q&A
 12.00 a.m : End




The speaker for this series of lecture is Tun Mahathir himself. Tun talked about the globalization that happened all around the world. Our country is a part of the globalization but it is base on western globalization. The globalization has their pros and cons for each country that been involved. Tun said in this lecture that we should make our own globalization instead of using western because it may lead to less contribution to raise the country. For example, some students went to overseas to continue their studies but after they finished their studies, they prefer stay overseas to start their career because of the income is better than start the career in Malaysia.

The duration of this talk by Tun Mahathir is about an hour and the candidates who were attended to this lecture gave their question to Tun base the current issue and the current topic of the talk. The time given for question and answer session doesn’t enough for all candidate who want to ask the question to Tun Mahathir. After that Q & A session ends, Tun Mahathir leave the hall and the lecture series of Tun Mahathir ends.