Saturday, July 18, 2009

NEWS: Undergrads get portal

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian undregraduates can now better communicate, share expertise and jointly enagage in various online activities with their foreign counterparts thanks to a new social-networking portal.

Declared the country’s first social-networking portal, it will also enable the university students to upload resumes in video format, search for job opportunities online, post blogs, manage special-interest-groups and publicise upcoming events.

The portal — youthciti.com — was launched yesterday and is a collaborative effort by its owner and developer, MyPath Sdn Bhd, the Students In Free Enterprise group at Universiti Utara Malaysia, and Internet service provider Jaring Communications Sdn Bhd.

To use the facilities, a student must first register at the portal.

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