The 15th All Asian Inter-Varsity Debate (Asians)

Starting from May 7, 2008, the North South University of the beautiful Bangladesh, are hosting the biggest youth congregation, not to mention the largest and the most prestigious academic competition in Asia – The 15^th All Asian Inter-Varsity Debate

Championship, 2008 (commonly known as ‘Asians’).

In this international event, Universiti Malaysia Pahang will be represented by :

Khomathan a/l Valayetham

Aravinthan Rajaandra

Satyanantha Rao a/l Apparao

Siti Rahmah bt Abdul Aziz

Tournament Details

Schedule: 7th – 13^th May 2008

North South University for years has been the pioneer in promoting English Parliamentary Debating in Bangladesh. For the last one decade, NSU has been the flag bearer of Bangladeshi debating fraternity in the international debating scene. NSU also takes immense pride in being the first South Asian University to host this particular event

The prime purpose of Asians, 2008 remains the same - to promote and expand the “art of debate” as a medium of international interaction among the Asian countries. For years, this tournament has served as a platform for the Asian youth community to exhibit their unique and dynamic ideas through the battle of words and thus, exchange their views about different Asian and international issues. However, Asians is not only a competition of debate, it is first and foremost, a congregation of the youth and future leaders from different parts of Asia. This year, more than 450 students from around 12 different Asian countries are participating in the tournament

The previous year, The 14th All-Asian Debate Championship took place at the Gyeonggi English Village in Paju, South Korea. The participating institutions last year were:

· Assumption University (Thailand)

· Beijing Foreign Studies University (China)

· Beijing Language and Culture U (China)

· Chulalongkorn University (Thailand)

· Chung Ang University (Korea)

· Debate Association of Ewha (Korea)

· Ewha Debate Society (Korea)

· Hanyang University (Korea)

· International Christian University (Japan)

· Incheon University (Korea)

· Kanagawa University (Japan)

· Kansai Gadai University (Japan)

· Kitakyushu University (Japan)

· Kobe University (Japan)

· Korea University

· Korea Development Institute (Korea)

· Kyoto University (Japan)

· Kyung Hee University-Seoul (Korea)

· Kyung Hee University-Suwon (Korea)

· Lahore School of Economics (Pakistan)

· Multi Media University (Malaysia)

· Multi Media University-Melaka (Malaysia)

· M.S.Ramaiah Institute of Technology (India)

· National Law School of India University (India)

· North South University (Bangladesh)

· National University of Juridical Sciences (India)

· Osaka Prefecture University (Japan)

· Rashtreeya Vidyalaya College of Engineering (India)

· Society for Advanced Inter-tertiary Debate (Singapore)

· School of English and International Studies, BFSU

· (China)

· Soka University (Japan)

· Sophia University (Japan)

· Temasek Polytechnic (Singapore)

· Tsinghua University (China)

· University of Macau (China)

· University of Malaya (Malaysia)

· University of Malaysia, Pahang

· Universiti Sains Malaysia

· Universiti of Technology, Mara (Malaysia)

· Wenzao Ursuline University (Taiwan)

· Yokohoma National University (Japan)

· Yonsei University (Korea)

During the 14^th all-asians,Universiti Malaysia Pahang has managed to break into the Double Octo Final Round. Ranking 29^th out of more than 200 teams!

May we triumph again this year with a better ranking. Wish us the best of luck. Many thanks for the support of fellow Orators and Mr. Mohd Reduan bin Mohd Yusof as Chief Coordinator for assisting the UMP team in registration and visa applications.

For more info, visit http://nsuallasians.com

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