King confers scholarship to 10 students


KUALA LUMPUR: The Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah on Wednesday (March 9) conferred the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Scholarship for the 2021 session to 10 recipients at the Istana Negara here.

Four recipients for the Doctorate (PhD) level are Nurul Farhana Abd Ghaffar, 28, who is pursuing her studies in Waste Management at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore); S. Mogesh, 23, (Clinical and Health Sciences (Stem Cells), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM); Loke Yean Leng, 24, (Nanotechnology, Universiti Malaya) and Nurul Elia Aqila Ab Rahim, 26, (Bioengineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia).

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