Malay Mail articles from April 2002

Malay Mail archives from April 2002

Mom, 83, looking for long-lost son.
April 15, 2002... SHE has been looking for her son since 1980 and now, aged 83, she is in her twilight years. Madam Gaw Dan's wish is to be reunited with her son before she dies. Hoo See Kaw, now 53, is the fourth of six children and has been missing since...

Tribute to moms.
April 15, 2002... THERE must have been moments in your life when you could not be more grateful to your mother. We would like to hear your story as we pay tribute to Dearest Mom on Mothers Day on May 12. Three winners will be announced on that day, so stay...

A taste of Africa for lucky three.
April 15, 2002... THREE young Malaysians will get a chance to experience South Africa under the 9th International Wilderness Experience from July 21 to Aug 1. They are among 60 lucky youths from 13 countries who will take part in the 10-day camping trip...

Safe and sound.
April 15, 2002... Byline: Sangeetha nair FOURTEEN-year-old Lai Yan Wen, who was allegedly kidnapped by her uncle last Monday, was found by police in a hotel in Taiping on Friday after getting a tip-off from a member of the public. Yan Wen and her uncle,...

PM: Singapore has right of passage.
April 15, 2002... MALAYSIA has given Singapore the right of passage to Pulau Pisang, Johor, to man a lighthouse there, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday. He said it was difficult to say that Singapore had encroached into the area....

Flying roof tiles hit six parked cars.
April 15, 2002... Byline: Azman Abdul Ghani SIX cars and several units in Block 21 of the Taman Bukit Angkasa Apartments at Jalan 7-112A in Pantai Dalam were damaged after a heavy downpour struck areas around the city yesterday afternoon. The hour-long...

Afternoon storms for next few weeks.
April 15, 2002... Byline: Sangeetha Nair THOSE living in the Klang Valley will experience thunderstorms in the afternoons for the next few weeks. Weather in the mornings will be generally fine, says the Malaysian Meteorological service. The west coast...

Uprooted trees hit houses.
April 15, 2002... Byline: Marhalim Abas AN hour-long thunderstorm yesterday afternoon created havoc in the city and its outskirts as strong winds caused trees to be uprooted or had their branches snapped off. The Malay Mail team went around Petaling Jaya,...

Study area divided into seven zones.
April 15, 2002... THE Petaling Jaya 1 Local Plan (RTPJ1) is a comprehensive plan divided into seven zones in the Bukit Gasing and Damansara Utama constituencies. The study area for RTPJ1, comprising 2,160.70 hectares of land, is broken up into Zon Pusat Bandar...

Developing Petaling Jaya.
April 15, 2002... Byline: Hasnita Shaari BEGINNING today, The Malay Mail is carrying a series of reports on the Petaling Jaya 1 Local Plan (RTPJ1) - a proposal for development in the Bukit Gasing and Damansara Utama constituencies. What is a local plan?...

Regular bursting of pipes in PJ cause for concern.
April 15, 2002... Byline: Harny Abu Khair BURST and leaking pipes are the bane of residents in the Klang Valley, especially those living along Jalan Klang Lama and Section 6, Petaling Jaya. INDRA complains that in the past three weeks, residents of Jalan...

TAFE College takes challenge trophy in accountancy sports meet.
April 15, 2002... ABOUT 500 accountancy graduates showed up at the Matsushita Sports Complex in Shah Alam recently for the Inter-University Sports Tournament by CPA Australia, Malaysia Division. The one-day event saw participants from the International Islamic...

Bus companies turn vacant land into depot.
April 15, 2002... Byline: Harny Abu Khair TWO bus companies have turned a vacant plot of land near a residential area into a temporary depot where the drivers take a break or wait for passengers. LAN whose house is next to the plot of land, says in the...

Waited four days for power supply.
April 15, 2002... Byline: Harny Abu Khair RESIDENTS of Apartment Idaman at Jalan PJU 10/1, Damansara Damai, were without electricity supply for four days recently. RASHID says that the electricity supply was disrupted on Saturday (March 30) and the...

More in Public Bank's SIMILAX plan.
April 15, 2002... PUBLIC Bank has added several additional benefits for applicants of the SMILAX Plan, an existing loan package to assist small and medium- enterprises (SMEs) in their business expansion. SMILAX PLAN allows the SMEs to refinance their existing...

Children join dad in `hair' feat.
April 15, 2002... Byline: Alagesh Nathan IMAGINE a 10-year-old boy bending a steel rod at the nape of his throat while a nine-year-old girl pulls a one-tonne van by her hair. This was the scene at the Batu Caves temple yesterday morning when Malaysia's...

Who's Who in `Hard Core Poor' funds loss case.
April 15, 2002... Byline: Marhalim Abas RISDA director-general Baharudin Awang is another top civil servant who served as one of the directors and shareholders in the two companies which lost RM36.5 million in funds from the Hardcore Poor Development...

ExxonMobil award for Petra subsidiary.
April 15, 2002... OIL and gas service provider Petra Perdana Bhd's subsidiary, Petra Resources Sdn Bhd (PRSB), now has an ExxonMobil Safety Award. It was presented the ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Malaysia Development Projects (EMEPMI) 2001 Safety...

Smooth start at KLCAT for MAS.
April 15, 2002... A SMOOTH start. Such was Malaysia Airlines' check-in counter personnel assisting passengers at the City Air Terminal (CAT) of KL Sentral, as observed by pixman Amran Hamid. The counter opened for the first time at 8am yesterday, offering...

Less smoky Puduraya.
April 15, 2002... Byline: Sangeetha Nair PASSENGERS at the basement of the Puduraya bus terminal can breathe more easily after the installation of a new ventilation system. Urus Bangunan Sdn Bhd (UBSB) property manager Mohamed Isa Hamzah told The Malay...

Confrontation between group and cops at Central Market.
April 15, 2002... Byline: Azman Abdul Ghani A SMALL conflict broke out between police and a group of supporters from the Gerakan Membasmi ISA (GMI) (Abolish the ISA Movement) around noon yesterday after police consfiscated pamphlets and banners the group...

Smoother traffic flow along Jalan Tun Razak next month.
April 15, 2002... THE construction work for the KL Monorail stretch at Jalan Tun Razak is scheduled to be completed next month. In a statement from KL Monorail System Sdn Bhd, the work at the specific stretch is delayed due to the unexpected presence of...

`Tame' affair.
April 15, 2002... Byline: Badrolhisham Bidin IT was a `tame' affair as Opposition leaders launched the Black 14 gallery and Anwar Ibrahim's Nobel Peace Prize nomination support campaign yesterday. But speakers who included Keadilan president Datin Seri...

77 illegals held in overnight raids.
April 15, 2002... COME ALONG NOW... Policewomen escorting an illegal immigrant to a police truck following an early morning raid yesterday at various shophouses around Selayang. More than 500 Federal Reserve Unit, General Operations Force and policemen...

A choice of new Nokia cellular phones.
April 15, 2002... NOKIA has a new range of six cellular phones. The six handphones come under the theme Connected To Life. They are: * Nokia 7650, the brand's first imaging phone. It has multimedia messaging system (MMS) capability, unique built-in...

Samsung's new chief rep.
April 15, 2002... SAMSUNG Electronics Company's new Malaysian chief representative is J. W. Kim. Before his current position, he served as the company's South-East Asian regional manager in Singapore. Kim will now head the company's telecommunications,...

Richer colours for handphone screens.
April 15, 2002... Byline: Dennis Chua ENTER, the mobile phone which downloads colour photographs. And, it is from South Korean electronics giant, Samsung. The company has a revolution in mobile phone technology, in the form of the SGH-T100, better...

E.T.for the new generation.
April 15, 2002... Byline: Dennis Chua THE "Extra Terrestrial", or E.T. has been hailed as Steven Spielberg's "Mickey Mouse". The cute alien whose fingers have healing powers, who has the power turn calculators into computers, and who can make BMX...

A touch of love.
April 15, 2002... Byline: Jennifer Gomez LBS Bina Holdings Berhad in a joint venture with Permodalan Negeri Selangor Berhad will be embarking on a major development close to the new and upcoming township of Putra Heights in Selangor. Situated over an...

Lifting the curtain.
April 15, 2002... Byline: Fidah Ruzki LIKE a car, when your company is not progressing, you need to jump start its "engine". Unlike cars though, your "engine" comprises human beings with feelings and attitudes. So how do you jump start people?...

Frankfurt, here I come.
April 15, 2002... THE month of May offers exciting prospects for Kedah striker Akmal Rizal Ahmad Rakhli. The Premier Two top scorer, barring any injuries, is set to be pencilled in as the chief striker for Malaysia against four-time World Cup winners Brazil on...

`True Blue' treat for locals.
April 15, 2002... Byline: Rizal Hashim; Fariq Rahman CHELSEA fans are in for a rare "True Blue" treat in July. The glamorous English Premiership outfit will be making their way to Kuala Lumpur, two months after Malaysia take on World Cup aspirants...

Poser over venue for Brazil match.
April 15, 2002... WHERE will the historic match between four-time world champions Brazil and Malaysia be played on May 25? This question remains unanswered among the FA of Malaysia (FAM) top officials and the organiser, Pro Events, a company based in Hong...

Knock! Knock! Knock!
April 15, 2002... THE FA of Malaysia will send someone to Kota Baru to knock on the door of Kelantan JKR. And it isn't going to be a friendly visit. At yesterday's council meeting, it was decided that a FAM official will go to Kelantan JKR and look into...

Pahang still not cured of red card disease.
April 15, 2002... Byline: Pritam Singh THE red card jinx continued to haunt Pahang in their match against Penang on Saturday. And coach Yunus Alif is not at all amused by it because they have become victims of their own acts for the third time in as many...

Three points, three bans.
April 15, 2002... Byline: Fariq Rahman SELANGOR got a winning start to Round Two two days ago, but ended up losing three key players for this Saturday's clash against Terengganu at Shah Alam Stadium. In their 1-0 win over Johor FC in a Premier One match...

Minus two, plus two for Brunei.
April 15, 2002... Byline: Tony Mariadass BRUNEI have brought in two new foreign players - Bulgarian striker- midfielder Gueorgui Slavtchev and Brazilian Silas Liberrato Da Silva - to help them return to Premier One. The duo replace Marcus Phillips and...

Yaakob Latif shut out SBU.
April 15, 2002... Byline: Haresh Deol DEFENDING champions SMK Seri Bintang Utara's (SBU) hopes of defending their title were dashed as they went down 1-0 to SMK Yaakob Latif in the Under-18 semifinals of the Pudu Zone schools hockey tournament last...

Hee's determined.
April 15, 2002... Byline: Graig Nunis ONG BENG HEE knows it sounds like a hollow promise after big disappointments in his last three tournaments but he is determined to get back on the right track. The Asian champion, who failed to live up to his world...

Freeman to boost Saladin this year.
April 15, 2002... A NEW YEAR, a new rally programme and a new co-driver. Saladin Rallying has selected highly-experienced British co-driver Jerry Freeman to accompany Saladin in this year's Asia Pacific Rally Championship (APRC). The championship begins in a...

From the kitchen to the stage.
April 15, 2002... Byline: Jad Mahidin CELEBRITY cook Chef Wan is putting aside his pots and pans. And he's not cooking anymore. That is, at least, until his first stage performance is over - and he's had some rest after that. The bubbly and friendly...

Coming to the rescue.
April 15, 2002... Byline: Azman Ahmad ALARMED by the suffering of Afghans, whose country was turned into a battlefield when the US set out on its fight against terrorism, nasyid group Rabbani has come to their aid. The seven-piece group have recorded an...

INTI college take stage one.
April 15, 2002... Byline: Graig Nunis INTI COLLEGE took the first leg of the inaugural National Table Tennis League when they defeated Pu Xian 4-2 in the best of seven final at Bukit Jalil yesterday. With their win, the Kuala Lumpur-based team earned 20...

Summon for Suhaimi.
April 15, 2002... Byline: S.S.Dhaliwal TWO more players have been called-up to join the squad of 40 players that were named by the Malaysian Hockey Federation last Saturday. But it was the end for another player who was not amongst those named to attend...

Sapura start to show their mettle.
April 15, 2002... SAPURA are beginning to show the quality to mount a serious challenge for honours this season. This was evident when Sapura blanked a fighting Jolly Lads 6-0 at Tun Razak Stadium last night to cap a fruitful weekend. They had earlier held...

Sluggish Tigers.
April 15, 2002... Byline: S.S.Dhaliwal MAYBANK laboured to a 3-1 win over a resilient Bumiputra Commerce Bank but coach Wallace Tan was unperturbed. Rather he was pleased with the end result of the match at it ensured that his team kept abreast with the...

No help from Pakistanis.
April 15, 2002... Byline: Mustapha Kamaruddin LEADERS Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) produced a lightning performance to send archrivals Bank Simpanan Nasional (BSN) reeling 4-2 at Tun Razak Stadium last night. TNB, who are the preliminary round (league)...

`Let the members speak'.
April 13, 2002... Byline: Eddie Chua "LET the members speak! The Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) is important to enable all delegates to speak out on the issue of phantom members in the MCA." This is the response from Selangor MCA vice-chairman Datuk...

Jalani's house not sealed.
April 13, 2002... Byline: Azlan Ramli THIS double-storey house in Bangsar Baru is believed to be former national shuttler Jalani Sidek's residence. Jalani could not be reached on his mobile phone. When The Malay Mail team went to the house at 12A, Lorong...

Attacked over old dispute.
April 13, 2002... Byline: Parveen Gill AN old rivalry opened new wounds when a group of nine men attacked two childhood friends in Kampung Baiduri, Petaling Jaya on Thursday. In the incident, S. Shankar Dinesh, 24, and M. Sivaneson, 25, were...

Close shave for three blind men.
April 13, 2002... THREE blind men managed to escape unharmed when fire broke out at a 70- year-old building owned by the Malaysian Association for the Blind (MAB) in Brickfields yesterday. Jalan Hang Tuah Fire and Rescue Department operations chief...

Halim hopes time will heal the pain.
April 13, 2002... Byline: Azman Abdul Ghani LOSING loved ones in a tragedy is a traumatic experience but then life must go on, difficult as it is. So it is for Airport Limo driver Abdul Halim Abdul Rahman, 36, who lost his wife and five of their 10...

Chance to win movie tickets.
April 13, 2002... CALL MY Ticket Window between April 15 and 19 and take home eight preview passes to catch new releases July Rhapsody and Dry Wood Fierce Fire. Dial 03-95433366 with the correct password of the day and you will take home four passes to each...

Burst pipe causes massive traffic jam.
April 13, 2002... A BURST pipe near the KL Monorail construction site along Jalan Tun Razak caused a massive traffic jam on both sides of the road yesterday evening. Witnesses said the pipe burst about 6.30pm creating a geyser that shot 10 metres up in front...

Widow pines for missing daughter.
April 13, 2002... Byline: Alagesh Nathan AN 80-year-old widow is pining for her daughter who went missing eight years ago to come home. Siti Hawa Maatin is adamant about not leaving her house in Kampung Bukit Temensu in Kuala Pilah, Negri Sembilan, as she...

Done in by brave girl.
April 13, 2002... Byline: Azman Abdul Ghani A PLUCKY 13-year-old girl helped set a trap for a suspected extortionist when she lured him into the long arm of the law at USJ1 in Subang Jaya. Late last month, the teenager was extorted of RM100 after she was...

Former national boxer laid to rest.
April 13, 2002... Byline: Mohamad Yatim Latip FORMER national boxer Mohd Faizul Osman, 22, who died in a freak accident at a picnic area in Kuantan on Thursday, was laid to rest at Kampung Solok Paya Rumput Jaya in Sungai Udang, Malacca, yesterday....

Local carpets as good as imported ones.
April 13, 2002... JAYANTILAL Carpets Sdn Bhd is slowly making its name as a local manufacturer of carpets with the same qualities of imported ones. Its managing director, Previn Khandhar, said they started making carpets under the Jayantilal Group of Companies...

Prizes for Ice Age contest winners.
April 13, 2002... THE grand prize winners of Caltex's Ice Age contest, organised via radio channel Mix FM, collected their prizes recently. Organisers Caltex Oil Malaysia and Mix FM presented Agnes Tan and Kim Yi Ching with their rewards - RM2,000...

Advertisement board obstructing pedestrians' movement.
April 13, 2002... A PEDESTRIAN walkway should be exclusively for pedestrians and should not have any structure that impedes this movement. However, this is not the situation along the walkway in Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman. NAT says an advertisement board in...

Leaning tree gives him the jitters.
April 13, 2002... THE tree in front of his house at Jalan G2, Taman Melawati, Hulu Kelang, was leaning precariously to one side and it was giving him the jitters. So MOHAN approached the Ampang Jaya Municipal Council (MPAJ) on Jan 10 to get them to cut the...

Health card company can't be reached.
April 13, 2002... "WHATEVER happened to the company that issued the health card?" wonders SRI. He says the company Perdana Health Connections Sdn Bhd, has not been in operation for the past week. "My nephew, who is covered by the health card, died in an...

Where are the green cards?
April 13, 2002... ONE year ago, about 11 workers from MSZ Consultant Sdn Bhd went for a course in order to obtain the green cards that will enable them to work in construction sites. Until now, none of them have received the green cards which are issued by...

Yummy, Powerpuff Girls!
April 13, 2002... IF superhero Spiderman had an ice-cream named after him, his junior counterparts, the Powerpuff Girls, are now honoured with Frutips Gummies. Frutips Powerpuff Girls Gummies come in the cartoon characters' signature colours of pink, green and...

Up against heavy vehicles.
April 13, 2002... RESIDENTS are up against heavy vehicles plying Taman Dusun Setia in Seremban, damaging the road. They claim that heavy vehicles and even prime movers, which belong to a resident, are parked in the housing estate. What is worse is that their...

All cracked up!
April 13, 2002... Byline: Ranjeetha Pakiam IMAGINE long and deep cracks on the walls and ceilings of your house. Scary, aren't they? Well, that's just what the residents of Taman Desa Cheras are experiencing because of the rock-blasting activities for a...

Application to call rebuttal witnesses allowed.
April 13, 2002... Byline: Jothi Jeyasingam IN the end, it was just a one-line decision - "Allowed application to call witnesses." Yet, this crucial one-liner was preceded by two days of lengthy submissions by the prosecution and defence in the murder...

Jailbreaking duo reunited at the court.
April 13, 2002... Byline: Shahrul Hafeez THE jailbreaking duo of Rozali Ridzwan and Izuddin Saudin aka Din Jerawat were reunited at the Shah Alam Magistrate's court yesterday. The same misdeed which made them famous was also the reason they were brought...

Police seek four gang members.
April 13, 2002... Byline: Azman Abdul Ghani POLICE are looking for four members of a gang of six who target 24-hour clinics and convenience stores around Selangor and Kuala Lumpur following the arrests of two suspects over the past three days. They are...

`Pok Pok Pok!' to be shown at Cannes.
April 13, 2002... FOLLOWING the success of Cheritera, the animated feature film shown last year, Matahari Animation is ready to launch another. The new film from Matahari is Pok Pok Pok! which will be offered to the global television market at the coming Mip...

Spot Spiderman car sticker contest.
April 13, 2002... WANT to win exclusive Spiderman merchandise, Golden Screen Cinema (GSC) Gold Class tickets and a grand prize of a trip for two to Club Med Cherating? You can do so by taking part in the Spot the Spiderman Car Stickers Contest. Just grab...

Injunction filed to stop gelatin capsule sale to Muslims.
April 13, 2002... THE Islamic Food and Nutrition Council has filed an injunction to stop Shaklee Products (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd from supplying, distributing, promoting and selling the Shaklee gelatin capsules to Muslim consumers. The injunction also seeks to stop...

Car park fear comes true.
April 13, 2002... Byline: Norainne Shaib A FEW months ago, a portion of the football field at Jalan Chan Ah Tong, Brickfields, was tarred. Residents believed it was making way for an open-air car park and complained to the authorities. That was...

Coming together for a good cause.
April 13, 2002... Byline: Sobana Damodaran THE young and old, famous and unknown, of different races and nationalities wined and dined to raise funds for Afghan refugees at a food fair yesterday. The event, the Colours of the World fair organised by the...

Circus performers keep it all in the family.
April 13, 2002... CIRCUS runs in their veins. Mexican Gerry Marquez, 47, his English wife Barbara Jessie Howes, 37, and their elder son, Gordon Marquez, 17, are all performers with acts of their own. The couple, who is with The Royal London Circus' (RLC), have...

Chance to study in Japan.
April 13, 2002... MALAYSIANS who wish to study in Japan may apply for the Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho) Scholarship 2003. The Japanese Embassy, in a statement, said applications can be sent in from April 15. Successful candidates will get a monthly...

Vision schools named after past leaders.
April 13, 2002... THE schools within the Subang Jaya Vision School Complex will be named after three of the country's past leaders. Deputy Education Minister Datuk Hon Choon Kim said the sekolah kebangsaan would be named after Datuk Onn Jaafar, and the other...

Prizes galore for Mother's Day message contest.
April 13, 2002... PEN a winning message to your mom in the Mother's Day message writing contest, themed Mother, Queen of My Heart, and walk away with attractive home electrical appliances. Yesterday, Singer (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd contributed more than RM6,000...

Safety concerns in rawang school.
April 13, 2002... Byline: Pauline Almeida WHILE a secondary school in Rawang strives to meet the educational needs of its 900-odd students, it has somewhat "compromised" on its safety aspects. The wiring at the school has seen better days. They dangle...

Magyar toast.
April 13, 2002... Byline: Eddie Chua HUNGARIAN grandmaster Peter Leko was crowned the UAE Grand Prix champion on Wednesday. Leko edged his Russian opponent Alexander Grischuk in a sudden-death tie in the final. The tantalisingly close match was stretched...

A touch of love.
April 13, 2002... Byline: Fidah Ruzki WE'VE heard of children with learning difficulties and most of the time, these children are left at the mercy of ordinary teachers who do not have proper training in handling these children. We are all too aware that...

Property talk.
April 13, 2002... HERE is a beginner's guide to help make the most of a real estate agent's expertise. * Cooperative - a form of multiple ownership in which a corporation or business trust entity holds title to a property and grants occupancy rights to...

Trust Yamakawi.
April 13, 2002... Byline: John Henry YAMAKAWI looks ready for his third success in the Open Benchmark 95 event over 1400m in Race 9 at Kranji today. The four-year-old New Zealand gelding by Erb Prinz, who arrived in June last year with stakes of NZ$5,225,...

Job market blues.
April 13, 2002... Byline: Fidah Ruzki THE data gathered from the Ministry of Human Resources, Malaysia's website, showed that from March 31 to April 6, there was an increase in the number of job vacancies reported to the Manpower Department. A total of...