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8 May 2023
Jia Yaw was nominated and elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia in its 2023 Annual General Meeting
35 new Fellows were elected this year, with 9 new Fellows coming from the social sciences and humanities discipline. Jia Yaw is the only legal practitioner among the present 484 Fellows.
3 August 2022
BFM, Earth Matters | The Human Right to a Clean, Healthy & Sustainable Environment
Juliet Jacobs reached out to Jia Yaw to discuss the UN General Assembly's historic recognition of this right just as we were rolling out our campaign to get our MPs to pledge to recognise it in future legislations.
7 July 2022
BFM, Evening Edition | As the heat is turned up on durian plantations for causing the floods in Baling, BFM speaks with political economist, Khor Yu Leng and the Malaysian Bar's Kiu Jia Yaw
They discussed the impact these plantations have had on the environment and the issues behind the way forest land is exploited.
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