Archive for January, 2012
CNY 2012 Round-Up
The Chinese lunar Year of the Dragon kicked off with an open house at the residence of Menteri Besar, Dato’ Seri DiRaja Dr Zambry Abd Kadir, on the first day of the New Year. Despite attempts by certain quarters to sabotage the function with false text messages claiming it was cancelled and destroying banners announcing [...]
State Level CNY Celebration
The state-level celebration will be held on the first day of Chinese New Year at the residence of Menteri Besar Dato Seri DiRaja Dr Zambry Abd Kadir. HRH the Sultan of Perak Sultan Azlan Shah together with HRH Raja Permaisuri Perak Tuanku Bainun will grace the occasion together with the Raja Muda and Raja DiHilir [...]
CNY Celebration 2012
Perak has been selected as the host for the national-level Chinese New Year (CNY) celebration this year. It will be held in Sitiawan on January 28, the sixth day of the Chinese lunar calendar. A state-level celebration was initially slated to be held at Ipoh Padang on the same evening. This is the second time [...]
MB Hails Perakeans
Over 10,000 Perakeans filled the grounds of Stadium Indera Mulia to usher in the New Year. While they waited anxiously for the countdown to midnight and the approaching New Year, they were entertained to live music and songs performed by some of the country’s top musical and singing talents. The line-up included popular singers such [...]
Subsidised Housing Scheme
Yayasan Bina Upaya Darul Ridzuan (YBU) will soon introduce a funding scheme to allow the less fortunate an opportunity to own a house. The foundation’s proposed subsidised-housing scheme is estimated to cost RM5 million. For a start, a pilot project will be built near Taman Kaya in Taiping on a 50-acre former mining land site. [...]
Impiana New Year Celebrations with Julian Mokhtar
Bidding farewell to 2011 and welcoming 2012, Impiana Hotel Ipoh rang in the New Year not with fireworks but with Julian Mokhtar in the house, dishing out his all-time favourite blues tracks into the New Year with his band, Soul Doctors. Julian Mokhtar, Malaysia’s very own home-grown living blues legend, was brought in to play [...]
Haven Fetes Its Customers
Tambun’s Haven Lakeside Residences, developed by Superboom Projects Sdn Bhd, held a dinner to fete its customers recently. Contractors, suppliers, bankers, valuers, consultants, and purchasers were invited to view completed units and to enjoy some merriment, courtesy of the developer. On track to be completed by middle of next year, the structure of all three [...]
Misleading Information
On my way home recently, I chanced upon a billboard, outside of the Low Cost Carrier Terminal in Sepang, extolling the virtues of Visit Perak Year 2012. What puzzles me is the depiction of Istana Kenangan in Kuala Kangsar as the primary image associated with the occasion. Istana Kenangan, incidentally, is under renovation and is [...]
A Badly Conceived Election Budget Allocation
Recently, the leading state newspaper in Perak carried an article which contained details of the Perak State Government’s budget for 2012 which was tabled before the State Assembly on November 21, 2011 (Ipoh Echo, Issue 133, 1-15 December 2011). Among the key items of planned allocation in what is clearly a pre-election budget aimed at [...]
Nur Sofiera’s Condition
We refer to the letter “Nur’s Parents Seek Justice “(Ipoh Echo Issue 134, December 16, 2011). We wish to extend our deepest sympathy to Nur Sofiera’s parents for their child’s condition. Nur Sofiera was initially admitted to the Paediatrics Ward at Hospital Raja Permaisuri Bainun Ipoh on March 11, 2009 for fever and fits. She [...]