07/11/2004

LUMUT: From weather-worn wooden huts for classrooms and office buildings SMJK Dindings in Pundut near here has emerged as one of the most IT-savvy schools in the country. The 52-year-old school is the first to have a fully integrated School Management System using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology that enables it to record .....More

15/07/2002

Tech triumph Principal undertakes changes through ICT TECHNOLOGY can make a different as principal Tiong Ting Ming has shown at Sekolah Menegah Jenis Kebangsaan Dindings.Tiong took charge of school in Pundut a small town in Perak1992 when it occupied a 30-years-old rundown building infested with termites. More alarming to him was the hig.....More

08/07/2002

THE Government through the Education Ministry is currently conducting a feasibility study on the use of open source technology at the school level. Sources close to the initiative said a committee comprising key personnel and decision makers in the Ministry has been set up to undertake this responsibility to carry out the study. It is un.....More

23/10/2001

Students and teachers at SMJK Dindings are enamoured with its information technology facilities. SUZIENA UDA NAGU reports. There is no other place that they would rather be. It is cool to be in school say students of Sekolah Menengah Jenis Kebangsaan Dindings in Pundut Perak. Our school is paradise says a former student who is now studyi.....More

23/10/2001

TIONG Ting Ming is probably the best thing that has ever happened to sekolah menengah jenis kerbangsaan Dindings in pundut Perak. In less than five years the 49year-old principal has done the near impossible.He has successfully turned a run-down school into one of the countrys celebrated and enviable cyberschools. Today SMJK Dindings has.....More

26/06/2001

Every once in a while Readers Digest magazine looks towards the community for the specific purpose of searching for one of its members who qualifies as a hero. This is defined as an individual who performs extraordinary acts of selflessness and kindness. The sixth one to come from Malaysia this time was announced at an informal ceremony .....More

07/04/2001

LUMUT Sun: SMK Dindings principal Tiong Ting Ming is living proof of the adage the word impossible only exists in the dictionary of fools. The fact is this gentle-looking 49-year-old man has achieved a gargantuan feat. He single-handedly turned a dilapidated school into a high-tech learning institution. His achievement even caught the at.....More

30/06/2000

MALAYSIA 29 June 2000 - You may not find the Dindings High School located in the hinterland of Malaysia's northern state of Perak on any map and may pass it by without a second thought.  But located within its wooden walls and under zinc roofs are budding entrepreneurs of the new dot-com world.  The 800 students of the school rangin.....More

24/04/2000

The first time I visited the school in July 1998 I was skeptical about Tiong's ability to pull off this grand vision. As a seasoned journalist I had seen enough failure in school computer laboratories and met even more headmasters too caught up with administrative matters to push the technology envelope. Cost was another prohibitive .....More

24/04/2000

Three weeks ago three friends from Sun Microsystems and I visited Malaysia's most happening school--SMJK Dindings. Stuck out in the middle of nowhere amid an oil palm estate and a fishing village SMJK Dindings is probably the most wired public school in the country today. The story behind this is worthwhile recounting. School princi.....More