Opening Address by High Commissioner, HE Boyd McCleary at the UK-Malaysia Partners in Science Symposium on Drug Discovery & Development
24 February 2010, Dorsett Subang
Selamat Pagi, Good morning!
Cancer is a very personal disease. I am certain that many of you in the audience today have at least one famil y member, or closed friend that has been touched by this deadly disease.
Despite some major advances made in recent years in cancer therapy including the discovery of novel targeted therapeutics, biologics, antibodies, and cancer vaccines, there are still no cures for many forms of cancer. This, coupled with the lack of new drugs approved from the combinatorial chemistry approach, has driven researchers and the pharmaceutical companies back to basics in hunting for new therapies in natural products.
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High Commissioner’s Speech at the Post-Copenhagen Climate Change Forum
19 January 2010, Securities Commission, Kuala Lumpur
Ladies and Gentlemen, Distinguished Panellists, Mr Moderator
I am pleased to be making the opening remarks at this forum. It is encouraging to see some old acquaintances and some new faces from Government, civil society, businesses, the media and from the diplomatic community. A very warm welcome to you all.
This event marks the fourth forum that we have organised on the theme of climate change. It is also the latest of many events on which we have collaborated with the Chevening Alumni of Malaysia.
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High Commissioner's Speech at the Opening of the Global Marketing Network Conference
7th December 2009
I am delighted to be here this morning to open Global Marketing Network’s Malaysia Conference and to support the launch of GMN’s Malaysia Chapter.
When I agreed to help open the conference I asked myself exactly how to define marketing. Several months on I’m still scratching my head, so I’m delighted that there are plenty of experts here today to help. Many people will associate marketing with advertising. Now I know that marketing goes beyond purely advertising. And that’s probably just as well, if you listened to Lord Leverhulme the British founder of Unilever, who said many years ago:-
“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, and the problem is I do not know which half”.
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High Commissioner Speaks at the Special Presentation by ADB on “The Economics of Climate Change in Southeast Asia: A Regional Review”
19th November 2009
Mr Devanesan Evanson, Chief Market Operations Officer, Bursa Malaysia
Dr Juzhong Zhuang, Assistant Chief Economist, Asian Development Bank
Ladies and Gentlemen, Good morning.
I am delighted to be speaking here addressing PLCs in Malaysia. I suppose my role this morning is to provide a diplomatic perspective to the discussion on climate change.
Perhaps I could start with a reminder of just why this is so important. Last month my government published a map identifying the human impacts of a 4 degree increase in global temperatures, which is the least we can expect in the absence of action to cut CO2 emissions.
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High Commissioner's Speech at the DVD Launch and Special Screening Event of "High Stakes - the economics of climate change in South East Asia”
15th October, 2009, The Residence, Kuala Lumpur
Ladies and Gentlemen.
Good afternoon.
Many thanks to all of you for sparing some time today to view this special screening of a new documentary commissioned by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. This DVD film is coming at the back of the recently published study known as The Economics of Climate Change in Southeast Asia: A Regional Review, which was carried out and authored by the Asian Development Bank. I am sure most of you are aware of this report by now.
Please allow me to say few things before we preview the new documentary together.
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High Commissioner's Speech at the IChemE Presidential Lecture
7th October 2009
Our distinguished speaker: Mr Ian Shott, President of the Institution of Chemical Engineering and CEO of Excelsyn,
Professor Wan Ramli Wan Daud,
Distinguished Guests,
Ladies and gentlemen,
1. Good afternoon. It gives me great pleasure to join you this afternoon at this inaugural Presidential Lecture. The British High Commission is really pleased to be supporting this event.
2. In today’s increasingly globalised and competitive world, Malaysia and the UK are fortunate to be able to enjoy the intellectual and economic rewards that stem from our friendly and long-standing working relationship. Our two countries are used to sharing experience and expertise in many different areas, in education, the law and in business. Our trading relationship is strong. In 2008, bilateral trade was a healthy £3 billion (RM17m) and Malaysia is the UK’s second largest market for goods in South-East Asia.
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High Commissioner speaks at the Royal Commonwealth Society KL Lecture on the Global Financial Crisis and the outcomes of the G20 London Summit
16th April 2009
The Context
• The current international architecture was created for another age. Rules and institutions built for just 50 sheltered economies are no longer the best fit for purpose.
• Most international institutions had their genesis in arrangements and agreements reached over 60 years ago. They have evolved significantly since then. They need to do so again to face new challenges of an interdependent world of some 200 states with a rapidly integrating global economy, unprecedented individual autonomy and the increasing power of informal networks across the globe.
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