You still didn't finish your MA and you have to publish already?
I guess the environment is kind of different here, while publishing your research is still important in the larger universities, most faculty get away with not publishing much in most other universities. Higher education institutions here are viewed more as knowledge transmitting institutions than knowledge creating institutions. Faculty would frequently have to teach 12, sometimes even 15 credit hours per semester, so there is hardly enough time left for research with that load.
Its probably why we don't have any prestigious universities here*, universities haven't developed that strong research culture yet.
*other than branches of prestigious Western universities, who most of the time are just money making arms of their parent organization.