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The world's population growth, increasing urbanization and rising standards of living are some of the factors influencing waste generation in Malaysia. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect primary data of the randomly selected 100 households. These households were provided with five (5)polythene bags to separate their daily wastes during the period of fourteen (14) days. The researcher visits each household in the evening to collect the polythene bags. A sample size, adequate to estimate the value with adequate precision was calculated from three residential neighborhoods (low, medium and high cost) The rate of waste generated from recyclable items are 45.51% (1,201.61 kg), followed by food wastes with 33.98% (897.18 kg) and non-recyclable items with 20.51% (541.54 kg). Therefore, the aim of this paper is to understand the waste generation and waste composition in relation to the willingness of the households and the objective are (i) to establish the nature of the waste generation and composition per/day; and (ii) to identify the current stakeholders involved in recycling material. The results clearly show that 96% of respondents are willing to participate in any program for waste minimization. This also indirectly indicates the lifestyle of the household.

Perak Tengah District has much cultural heritage potential to promote, notably in terms of village life, arts, culture, and agriculture. In order to be beneficial to the community, additional efforts should be encouraged to draw tourists to Perak, and the new attraction should be carefully defined and interpreted, especially in rural regions. Unfortunately, there is not enough support for the tourism industry's infrastructure, and the services are still not up to par. The Local Plan 2013, which promotes tourist-related products in Perak Tengah, is the foundation of the proposal to boost tourism there. This is consistent with the policies outlined in the Perak State Plan, which emphasises Perak Tengah's tourism products and integrated growth as a Perak tourism attraction. Focus group discussions with local agencies will be used in this study's qualitative research, which will be used to examine the rural development in the Perak Tengah District. The study begins by identifying the person in charge of change for each administrative area. This study is divided into five (5) main sections: the tourist destination, the tourist product, the tourist activities, the promotion of tourism, and the infrastructure for tourists, particularly in the administrative district. Based on the findings of this study, it was found that there are various potentials that local authorities can highlight. The suggestions and perceptions expressed that rural tourism can revive and improve the tourism economy in Perak Teng

This study is focusing on the evaluating the neighbourhood facilities and services by using the socio demographic variables. There are three important variables used which are genders, religions and housing locations. The main purpose of the study is to examine the neighbourhood facilities and services by using level of satisfaction with different socio demographic background.  The self-administered questionnaire survey distributed at three neighbourhood area in Manjung District Perak Malaysia with the sample of 421 respondents. To determine the level of satisfaction of different socio demographic background with neighbourhood facilities and services the t-test and one-way ANOVA test were performed. Generally the result shows that all neighbourhood facilities and services are moderate to less level of satisfaction by different socio demographic background. With the detail t-test analysis the result shows that the male are less level of satisfaction then the female. With One-Way ANOVA test analysis for different religions shows that the highest level of satisfaction is Muslim and the lowest level of satisfaction are other religion. While for different housing location the highest level of satisfaction is Lumut and the lowest level of satisfaction is Sitiawan. Based on the result the local authority the Manjung Municipal Council and related religions agencies must be take into account to upgrade and improve the neighbourhood facilities and services in their area for the purpose of neighbourhood quality. With this study the accurate targeted group of people will be identified by the relevant agencies, bodies or local government will tackle and can solve the problems precisely.

Level of satisfaction (LOS) is widely used by many studies in evaluating the current situation or provision of any services. For this study the level of satisafaction is focusing on socio economic preferences in evaluating the neighbourhood facilities and services for neighbourhood quality. This paper is continuation from pervious paper on neighbourhood quality. There are two variables used for socio economic background used are which are monthly income and home ownership. The key target of the study is assess the level of satisfaction of neighbourhood facilities and services with different socio economic background. Self-administered questionnaire survey distributed at three neighbourhood area in Manjung District Perak Malaysia with the sample of 421 respondents. The analysis used to assess the level of satisfaction with different socio economic background with neighbourhood facilities and services are descriptive analysis and one-way ANOVA test. Basically the result shows that all neighbourhood facilities and services are moderate to less level of satisfaction by different socio economic background. Even though at moderate level below 4.00 scale, the result shows that the lower income gives better level of satisfaction (3.63) compared to the higher income a bit lower level of satisfaction (3.45). Nevertheless peoples who have different home ownership gives almost similar result with average moderate below 4.00 scale. People who stay at their own house scale at 3.53, who stay at rental house scale at 3.57 and other house scale ate 3.57. Based on the result the local authority the Manjung Municipal Council and related agencies must be take into account to upgrade and improve the neighbourhood facilities and services in their neighbourhood area. The feedbacks from the peoples are the best method to get the actual situation and exact facts.

Perak Tengah District had been excluded from being promoted as rural tourism in Perak main tourism clusters. The main problem is the tourism resources have not yet been effectively publicised and utilised and there is no official digital tourism database of tourism products in Perak Tengah District. The aim of this paper is to capture all potential tourism products in Perak Tengah and present it in the interactive map. In this paper, a software QGIS and Google Earth are used to locate and map the distribution of tourism in Perak Tengah District. According to the findings, 229 different tourism products have been located within the study area. The findings show, inadequacy of trade and service and accommodation to support tourism development. Besides that, these tourism products areas are supported by signages, roads, accessibility, parking, and facilities that are sufficient and satisfactory conditions for tourists to come. The mapping of tourism products is categorised into five including place of attraction, food and beverages, accommodation, education, trade, and services. By using coordinates made up of graphic data and qualities for each identified tourist attraction, the results of the identification of the distribution of tourism products are projected on a map.

Neighbourhood concept has long been discussed and implemented since 1920's. Many contemporary neighbourhood concepts have been created and used such as green, sustainable, liveable, quality, new urbanism, safe, compact neighbourhood. The recent developments in the concept of neighbourhood are geared towards a healthy neighbourhood. Therefore, this paper conducts a thorough assessment of the literature in order to synthesise the current framework knowledge in terms of healthy neighbourhood purposes, elements, principles and also the framework and model used from previous research. A search was done from 1999 to the present to gather only applicable models or frameworks in general, with the inclusion criteria of no period, worldwide, and English language. There were 51 publications or journals identified with the keyword healthy neighbourhood, liveable neighbourhood, and sustainable neighbourhood. The purposes, elements, and principles of a healthy neighbourhood in relation to sustainable development and social well-being were screened in all titles and abstracts. Only 28 publications were found to be relevant and closed linked in creating the conceptual framework for this paper after the filtering procedure of all relevant key phrases. This paper utilised a snowball approach to collect the necessary papers after an extensive check on the key terms. Basically, the previous theoretical and modelling framework was related to sustainable development and social well-being. For the development of comprehensive conceptual framework for healthy neighbourhood, the researcher will use 3 elements and 8 principles. For the future, the conceptual framework will be used and tested for comprehensive healthy neighbourhood.