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Innovation Talk Series #2 |How to Draw Your Entrepreneurship Path
Selling bubble tea, hunting engineers for Silicon Valley’s tech companies, driving “Magic School Bus” to teach children in rural India, and founding an NGO to help rural artisans improve their livelihoods; these are some of the enterprises thirty-two-year-old Gary Mao ventured into during the past fifteen years. There were many failures along the way, but Gary lived to tell his tale to XMUM students during Innovation Talk Series #2 on 18 December 2018.
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XMUM Students Pitch Innovations to TusStar Incubator
On 14 December 2018, Ms. Han Wei, general manager of TusStar Incubator Shanghai, and Prof. Dr. Ren Rongwei from Sun Yat-sen Business School, Sun Yat-sen University China, had a sharing-and-coaching session at Xiamen University Malaysia (XMUM). Organized by Office of Research and Innovation, the unique event aimed to nurture leadership, entrepreneurship, and innovation among XMUM students.
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3rd Nanying Cup Chinese Debate Competition Successfully Held at XMUM
3rd Nanying Cup Chinese Debate Competition successfully concluded at Xiamen University Malaysia (XMUM) on 23 December 2018. University Putra Malaysia (UPM) and XMUM (Team B) were crowned winner and first runner up respectively, while Qian Weiming from XMUM was announced as the Best Debater.The competition lasted two days: First round and semi-final on 22 December, and final on 23 December. All sessions were relayed live on Facebook.
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XMUM Inks MOA with Leo Burnett Malaysia
Advertising students at Xiamen University Malaysia (XMUM) can look forward to a more enhanced and collaborative learning experience following a memorandum of agreement (MOA) between Leo Burnett (LB Malaysia) and the university.The MOA signatories were Leo Burnett Malaysia Chief Executive Officer Mr. Tan Kien Eng and Dr. Wang Changsong, Assistant Professor and Programme Coordinator of XMUM Advertising Programme.
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Journalism Students Win Top Prizes at Short Film Festival
Young and aspiring filmmaker from Xiamen University Malaysia (XMUM) won the Best Documentary Award at the inaugural China-ASEAN International Students Short Film Festival (CAISSFF) in December 2018, for having documented the nomadic lifestyle of the Bajau people.
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Innovation Talk Series #1 | How Social Entrepreneurship and Design Thinking Solve Social Issues
XMUM held the first session of Innovation Talk Series, an event organized by the Office of Research and Innovation, on 27 November 2018. The series aims to invite local and international experts to give public talks that will:
