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We are pleased to share that students from Asia Pacific University Model United Nations Club (APUMUN) participated at the Sunway Model United Nations Conference from the 19th to 21st June 2015 and stood out as award winning delegates in various categories. 

Aiman Hoque won the Best Delegate Award for the Ancient Roman Senate. Aiman and delegates from other universities and international schools were introduced to the Roman Republic system. As a member of the Roman Senate during the 218BC, Aiman managed to lead the Roman Empire and come up with strategies to win the 2nd Punic War against Carthage.

Muhammad Ali won the Most Outstanding Delegate for the Palestinian- Israeli Joint Council for Peace where he came up with brilliant resolutions and managed to find allies from other nations to solve the problems that Palestine and Israel have been facing for decades.

Kevin Andgreas was awarded the honourable mention title for the United Nations General Assembly.  The United Nations General Assembly, the most versatile of councils, required delegates to tackle a wide variety of pressing global issues with far-reaching implications such as climate change and how to reduce its effects in the future. Kevin exhibited his debating skills and managed to get other countries to vote for more environmental policies to be introduced around the world to reduce the effects of climate change.

Kevin Andgreas also won the best delegate award at the TENBY MUN conference which was held on the 13th and 14th of June. He won the best delegate award for the UN Security Council where he was able to negotiate and de-escalate tensions to avert a nuclear disaster by respecting and working together with other nations.

Under the mentorship of Shubatra Shanmugaretnam and Rohizan Ahmad from the School of Accounting, Finance and Quantitative Studies (SAFIQS) and the School of Business & Management, a team of APU students made it as one of the finalists at the recently concluded CIMA Global Business Challenge Malaysia 2015. Team ROSH Consultant whose talented, dedicated and ambitious members were Aminath Shafeeq, Baskaran Muniandy, Suha Mahmood and Tan Lim Wei. Their success in the competition was based on their detailed analysis and awesome presentation of a business case study.

The finals of the challenge was held on Monday, 15th June 2015 at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) which saw participation of 53 teams from various institutions of higher learning. A total of 3 teams from APU participated in the event. The CIMA Global Business Challenge is an annual effort by Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) in partnership with Barclays, to develop and nurture young talents around the world and to bring out the best in the young business leaders of tomorrow.

The Challenge provided students with great exposure to real-world business and management, as well as provided them with the golden opportunity for them to showcase their talents in business management and to learn to become successful business leaders of the future. Our appreciation as well to all students who participated in the challenge and thumbs up to the mentors for your dedicated effort!