THE recently-released Academy of Sciences Malaysia Science Outlook 2015, specifically the section on harnessing strategic global alliances, states “scientists should be positioned as torch bearers to drive international scientific collaborations towards acquiring, sharing and utilising knowledge that resides anywhere in the world to connect the scientific community and their endeavours meaningfully.”
We all know that for the above to be achieved there must be a common medium of communicating scientific innovations. In this case, that medium is the language of STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine) which is English.