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news without borders11theSun | TUESDAY AUGUST 25 2009
Press Digestby Kong See [email protected]
Lau to wedCarol Chuwithin100daysANDY Lau, the Hongkong superstar
whose relation-ship with his Malaysian girlfriend of 24 years,
CarolChu, came under intense media scrutiny over theweekend
following the death of Chus father, is to wedChu within 100
days.
According to a report yesterday in Sin Chew Daily ,which quoted
a reporter from the Singapore Chineseevening daily Lianhe Wabao ,
Lau, who flew intoMalaysia to attend the funeral of Chus father,
haspromised the Chus to marry her according to Chinesetradition to
full the senior Chus last wish.
According to the report, a close family memberhad told the
reporter in an interview that Lau, whowas accompanied by Carol and
their daughter, felt he owed his father-in-law an explanation and
afterconsulting the Chus decided to hold a wedding re-ception
within 100 days in accordance with Chinesetradition (which dictates
that Carol must wed within100 days of her fathers death or wait
until after threeyears).
The family member also told the reporter that it was decided
that all ang pows collected at the wed-ding reception will be
donated to charity, in particularthe funds for Typhoon Morakot
victims in Taiwan.
It is learnt that Carol was the apple of her fatherseye and Lau
had, during the registration of his mar-riage to Carol in Canada in
the early 90s, promised thesenior Chu a proper salutation for
her.
Lau, who has never openly admitted Carol is hislove, managed to
elude some 40 local and Hongkongpaparazzi at the funeral.
Nasi lemak sellers sonwins award in AustraliaADELAIDE: A Taiping
nasi lemaksellers son has won a prestigiousaward for being the top
Malaysiannal-year university student in thestate of South Australia
(SA).
Shaiful Zakaria, 24, who iscompleting his Masters Degreein
Architecture at the Universityof Adelaide, was awarded the Pa-trons
Trophy in the annual Mer-deka Awards sponsored by the SAChapter of
the Australia-MalaysiaBusiness Council (AMBC) in Ad-elaide. Besides
the trophy, Shaifulreceived a certificate, a laptopcomputer and
A$1,500 (RM4,400)from AMBC.
Meanwhile, the patron of theaward, Sir Eric Neal, a formerSouth
Australia governor and along and loyal friend of Malaysia,gave
Shaiful a personal gift ofA$1,500. Runner-up in the awardswas Johor
Baru-born KennyHwang, a final year Bachelor ofChemical Engineering
student,also from the University of Ad-elaide. He received a
certificateand A$1,000 (RM2,900).
The third prize went to KotaKinabalus Ileana Celestine SoonYin
Ying, a Bachelor of Financestudent at the University of
SouthAustralia. She received a certifi-cate and A$750
(RM2,200).
Im absolutely thrilled, saidShaiful, 24, who dedicated hisevery
achievement to his wonder-ful parents.
My parents Zakaria Husainand Jamaliah Shariff only had SRP(now
known as PMR) qualifica-tions and they now have a streetstall in
Taiping, selling nasi lemakand other traditional delicacies.
They are hard-working people.I have seen what they go throughto
support me and my siblings.That has driven me to alwayswork hard
and excel in my stud-ies so that my parents could havesomething to
be proud of, saidShaiful, who went to Adelaide in2005 as a Public
Service Depart-ment (JPA) scholar.
He is looking forward to return-ing to Malaysia after
completinghis degree and exploring theconcept of green
architecture,taking advantage of Malaysiasabundance of natural
resources.
Meanwhile, Hwang was fol-lowing in the footsteps of his
eldersister Merene, who won a similaraward in 2004. He plans to
workin the engineering industry withinterest in oil and gas, mining
andmanufacturing sectors.
Soon also has an outstand-ing academic record. Last year,she was
awarded the EconomicSociety of Australia (SA) prize
formicroeconomics and received theChancellors Letters of
Commen-dation in 2007 and 2008.
The award winners were se-lected by a panel of
distinguishedcitizens of Adelaide. Bernama
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