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AMBER CHIA

Amber Chia was born December 14, 1981) is a Malaysian model. She was
born in Ipoh, Malaysia, but grew up in the city of Tawau, in Sabah, East
Malaysia. She began her modeling career at seventeen in Kuala Lumpur. Chia
gained exposure after being a finalist in the 2004 Guess Watches Timeless
Beauty Contest, which was a model search for Guess Watch's brand
ambassador.
Chia was subsequently voted Model of the Year by the Malaysian
International Fashion Awards in 2004 and 2005. Her most defining features is
her pouty lips.
Chia has appeared in her local Sony, L'Oral, and Mitsubishi advertisements.
Chia was controversial for appearing in the Indonesian version of Playboy
Magazine.[1] The photographs were non-nude.
Chia has tried to venture into acting in Chinese movies and series such as
The 3rd Generation, Possessed, and Trio & a Bed. Chia was gradually
appearing in TV host shows and sitcoms (Taiwan and China).
Amber Chia is currently managed by Looque Models of Singapore.

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Amber Chia married her manager in March 2010 and later revealed she was
pregnant at the time of her wedding. She was married in Bali at the
Diwangkara Holiday Villa Resort.[2]
She also just recently opened her own Amber Chia academy to train models.
[3]
On September 27, 2010, she gave birth to a baby boy in a private hospital in
Petaling Jaya.
In 2011, she was invited to be a judge for the Malaysia's Online Fashion
Entrepreneurs' Weekend (MOFEW), together with celebrity photographer Kid
Chan.[4]
In February 2014, Amber appears as guest judge in episode 5 of Asia's Next
Top Model
Amber Chia is a supermodel and is undoubtedly the most well-known in
recent history. She began her modelling career at the age of 17 and gained
international recognition when she won the Guess Watches Timeless Beauty
Contest in 2004. This contest was a search for models from across the globe
in hopes of finding a brand ambassador for Guess Watches. Amber is not
only the first Malaysian to win the contest but also the first Asian to do so.
Her win in the professional modelling contest jump started her fashion
career. In 2004 and 2005, she was named the Model of the Year by the
Malaysian International Fashion Awards. Since then, she has also become
ambassadors for brands which include LOreal and Sony. She has even
created her own modelling reality show, I Wanna Be a Model.

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DATO MICHELLE YEOH

Tan Sri Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng (born 6 August 1963), is a Malaysian

actress, best known for performing her own stunts in the Hong Kong action
films that brought her to fame in the early 1990s. Born in Ipoh, Malaysia, she
was chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in
the World in 1997.
She is best known in the Western world for her roles in the 1997 James Bond
film Tomorrow Never Dies, playing Wai Lin, and the multiple Academy Awardwinning Chinese-language martial arts film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,
for which she was nominated the BAFTA in 2000, for Best Actress. In 2008,
the film critic website Rotten Tomatoes ranked her the greatest action

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heroine of all time. In 2009, she was listed by People magazine as the only
Asian actress as one of the "35 All-Time Screen Beauties".
She is credited as Michelle Khan in some of her earlier films. This alias was
chosen by the D&B studio who thought it might be more marketable to
international and western audiences. Yeoh later preferred using her real
name.
In 2011, she received a special award for her contribution to Malaysian
cinema at Malaysian Film Festival (FFM 24).
On 14 March 2012, the then French President Nicolas Sarkozy awarded her
the Officier de la Lgion d'honneur. The decoration was presented to her at a
ceremony held at the president's official residence, the Elysee Palace on that
day.
On 22 May 2012, she was awarded the Darjah Seri Paduka Mahkota Perak
(SPMP) which carries the title Datuk Seri' during the investiture ceremony in
conjunction with the Sultan of Perak Sultan Azlan Shah's birthday.
Michelle Yeoh receives the Excellence in Asian Cinema award during the
seventh annual Asian Film Awards on March 2013 at Hong Kong.
On 1 June 2013, she was awarded the Panglima Setia Mahkota (PSM) which
carries the title Tan Sri during the investiture ceremony in conjunction with
the birthday of Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah.
On 30 November 2013, she presided as the Chief Guest at International Film
Festival of India.
In the world of entertainment, Dato Michelle Yeoh is definitely Malaysias
most successful movie star. Her career began in Hong Kong when she starred
alongside Jackie Chan in The Police Story 3, a critical and successful movie
which was released in 1992. Dato Michelle impressed Jackie so much that
she is among the handful of stars that he would allow to do their own stunts.
Since then, she has appeared in both Hong Kong and Hollywood films.

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It is safe to say that appearing as a Bond girl in the James Bond film,
Tomorrow Never Dies, alongside Pierce Brosnan elevated her status not only
as an action star but it also proved she could take on Hollywood as well.
Notable movies she has appeared in includes the highly acclaimed Crouching
Tiger Hidden Dragon, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Mummy 3 and Babylon A.D.
Indeed an impressive list for a girl who hailed from the small town of Ipoh.
Dato Michelle has proved time and time again that she has the acting skills
to take on dramatic roles and has broken the stereotype that Asians are
limited to only action roles.

LING TAN

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Ling Tan whose full name is Tan Mang Ling. Family name is Tan, is a
Malaysian Chinese model born in 1974 in Kuala Lumpur. She has signed with
agencies MUSE MANAGEMENT in New York, Innovative Artists Talent And
Literary Agency in New York, Elite Paris, Munich Models, UNO Models in
Madrid and Barcelona.
Ling Tan, the first Supermodel from Southeast Asia, has changed the face of
fashion with her exotic beauty. Although she is ethnically Chinese, Ling was
born and raised in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She was educated in a Chinese
school and speaks four dialects of Chinese as well as Malay and English.
During her first week as a model, an American advertising executive looking
for a new face for an ad campaign spotted Ling in a hotel fashion show. The
award winning commercial for Tiger Beer in 1994 propelled Ling to celebrity
status in Malaysia. European and American designers showing their
collections in Malaysia were also impressed with Lings runway prowess and
encouraged her to move to New York City.
A runway favorite, Ling has been seen in hundreds of shows in New York,
London, Milan, Rome and Paris. From Pret-a-Porter to Haute Couture, Ling has
worked with such designers as, Alberta Ferretti, Alexander McQueen, Andrew
Gn, Ann Demeulemeester, Anna Sui, Anna Molinari, Badgley Mischka,
Balenciaga, BCBG Max Azria, Betsey Jonson, Bill Blass, Blumarine, Burberry,
Carolina Herrera, Celine, Chanel, Chloe, Christian Dior, Claude Montana,
Costume National, Daryl K, Diane von Furstenberg, DKNY, Donna Karan,
Dries Van Noten, Elie Saab, Emanuel Ungaro, Emporio Armani, Escada, Fendi,
Genny, Giambattista Valli, Gianfranco Ferre, Giorgio Armani, Givenchy, Gucci,
Guy Laroche, Halston, Herms, Herve Leger, Hugo Boss, Hussein Chalan,
Isabel Marant, Issey Miyake, Jean Paul Gaultier, Jill Stuart, John Galliano, John
Rocha, Karl Lagerfeld, Kenzo, Lanvin, Louis Vuitton, Maison Martin Margiela,
Marcel Marongiu, Matthew Williamson, Michael Kors, Missoni, Moschino,
Narciso Rodriguez, Nicole Miller, Nina Ricci, Oscar De La Renta, Paco
Rabanne, Pierre Balmain, Ralph Lauren, Riccardo Tisci, Richard Tyler, Rick
Owens, Romeo Gigli, Salvatore Ferragamo, Sonia Rykiel, Stella McCartney,
Todd Oldham, Tom Ford, Thierry Mugler, Valentino Garavani, Vera Wang,
Victoria's Secret, Vivienne Tam, Vivienne Westwood, Yeohlee, Yves Saint
Laurent and Zang Toi.
Ling has also been captured by the legends and masters of fashion
photography including, Albert Watson, Alex Cao, Annie Leibovitz, Christophe
Jouany, Christophe Kutner, Christophe Rihet, David Bailey, David Seidner,

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David La Chapelle, Denis Piel, Dominique Isserman, Donald Chiu, Ellen Von
Unwerth, Eugenio Recuenco, Feng Hai, Francois Nars, Gian Paolo Barbieri,
Gilles Bensimon, Glen Luchford, Giovanni Gastel, Irving Penn, Jean BaptisteMondino, John-Paul Pietrus, Leslie Kee, Marc Hom, Marco Glaviano, Mario
Testino, Matthew Rolston, Max Vadukal, Michael Thompson, Michel Comte,
Michelangelo di Battista, Miles Aldridge, Nadir, Patrick Demarchelier, Peter
Lindbergh, Raymond Meier, Sheila Metzner, Steven Meisel, Thiemo Sander,
Tom Munro, Torkil Gudnason, Troy Word, Then, Valerie Belin, Vincent Peters,
Walter Chin, Wayne Maser and the legendary Richard Avedon, who
photographed Ling for the prestigious Pirelli calendar in 1997.
Ling has appeared on the covers and editorial pages of the worlds top
fashion magazines including international editions of Vogue, Harpers Bazaar,
Conde Nast Traveler, Numero, Marie Claire, Elle, Allure, Amica, L'Officiel,
Stern, Visionaire, W, O Magazine New York Magazine and The New York Times
Magazine.

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SHEILA MAJID

Over the past two decades, Sheila Majid has been slowly but surely
dominating the international market. The countrys premier diva was the first
ever Malaysian to successfully penetrate the Indonesian market and in 1986,
she won the Indonesian BASF award in the category of Best Female Artist, a
truly remarkable accomplishment as the award was never won by a nonIndonesian before. Besides Indonesia, Sheila Majid also has a strong
following in Japan and still remains the only Malaysian recording artist to do
so.
She has been given the nickname the Queen of Jazz and has collaborated
with some of the worlds best musicians, including the Japanese violinist
Aska Koneko and the American bassist Nathan East. In 1996, she performed
a sold out concert at the Royalty Theatre in Londons West End and later the
same year, she returned to perform at the jazz Mecca of music where Aretha
Franklin and Stevie Wonder had once performed too.

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NICOL DAVID

Datuk Nicol Ann David (born 26 August 1983) is a Malaysian female

professional squash player. She is currently ranked world number 1 in
women's squash, and is the first Asian woman to achieve this. She won the
British Open title in 2005, 2006, 2008, and 2012, as well as the World Open
title a record 7 times in 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012.
David is the first squash player to have won the World Junior title twice; in
1999 and 2001 under the tutelage of Richard Glanfield. She remained the
only female squash player to have achieved this, until Raneem El Weleily
emulated David's feat by winning her second World Junior Championship in
2007. David joined WISPA and turned professional in 2000 when she won her
first WISPA title, after only a month in the tour. The victory came in February,
when she defeated Salma Shabana in the final of the Savcor Finnish Open.
On 7 June 2008, David was honoured with the Order of Merit (Darjah Bakti) or
D.B. in conjunction with the birthday of the His Majesty Tuanku Mizan Zainal
Abidin. She was the first recipient of the award which was established on 26
June 1975.
Considered by some to be one of the greatest women's squash player of all
time,[4][5][6] David's other notable achievements include the Asian Squash
Championship, which she won a record eight times (in 1998, 2000, 2002,
2004, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2011). She also held a 13-month, 51-match

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winning streak, from March 2006 until April 2007, when she finally lost to
Natalie Grinham in the final of the 2007 Seoul Open. David has also obtained
the WSA Player of the Year on seven occasions, from 2005 until 2010 and
2012.
DATO SITI NURHALIZA

Siti Nurhaliza (Jawi: born 11 January 1979) is a Malaysian singer, songwriter,

record producer, television presenter and businesswoman.
Siti was born on the January 11, 1979 in Berek Polis Kg. Awah, Temerloh
where she is the fourth child in a family of eight siblings to Tarudin Ismail, a
police officer and Siti Salmah Bachik, a housewife. She comes from a
musically inclined family; her brother, Saiful Bahri Tarudin, and her sisters Siti
Norsaida and Siti Saerah are also singers. Her grandfather was a famous
violinist, and her mother was a famous local traditional singer.
Since her debut, she has won a number of international singing competitions.
She had been crowned as Voice of Asia in 2002 after winning the Grand Prix
Champion title at the Voice of Asia singing competition which was held in
Almaty, Kazakhstan. A few years earlier, in 1999 she had won Gold Award in
Asia New Singer Competition at Shanghai Asia Music Festival, held in
Shanghai, People's Republic of China. Also, in the same year, she had won
two awards from 'South Pacific International Song and Singing Competition
1999' held in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

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To date, she has garnered more than 200 local awards as well as
international awards. She rose to fame as a multiple-platinum selling artist,
since her winning of Malaysia's reality show Bintang HMI 1995 when she was
only 16 where she was given offers in form of singing contracts from four
different international recording companies. Her first single, Jerat Percintaan
from her debut album won the 11th Anugerah Juara Lagu and another two
awards for Best Performance and Best Ballad. The album itself as of 2005,
has been sold to a total of more than 800,000 units in Malaysia alone. In her
career she has recorded and sung in multiple languages, including Bahasa
Malaysia, Basa Jawa, English, Mandarin, Arabic, Hindi and Japanese.
She has won an unprecedented number of music awards in Malaysia and its
environs:34 Anugerah Industri Muzik awards, 23 Anugerah Bintang Popular
awards, 23 Anugerah Planet Muzik awards, 18 Anugerah Juara Lagu awards,
four MTV Asia Awards and the holder of two records in the Malaysian Book of
Records. Backed with 15 studio albums, she is one of the most popular
artistes in the Malay Archipelago and Nusantara region and she has been
voted for Regional Most Popular Artiste ten times in a row beating other
fellow artists from Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore in the Anugerah Planet
Muzik since 2001. Currently, she has been listed as one of Malaysia's richest,
most-influential, most award-winning, most single-produced artists. She's
also one of Malaysia's best selling artists, for in 2000, her album sales alone
contributed to 10 percent of Malaysia's total album sales. To date, she has
sold more than 4 million in record sales.
In 1998, she was chosen amongst few Malaysian artists to perform during
the closing ceremony of 1998 Commonwealth Games in front of Queen
Elizabeth II and her consort, Prince Philip among other dignitaries and
officials from 70 countries including those from the Commonwealth of
Nations. In 2005, she became the first Southeast Asian singer, and third
Asian singer to perform a solo concert at the Royal Albert Hall while being
backed by the London Symphony Orchestra. In 2005 also, she was listed
second by MTV Asia in Asia's Best Musical Artiste and Channel V's Biggest
Asian Artiste. In 2008, she was named as one of Asia's Idol by Asia News
Network. Her success in the Asian region has gained her honorific titles
including "Voice of Asia" and "Asia's Celine Dion".

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DATUK AMBIGA SREENIVASAN

Dato' Ambiga Sreenevasan (born 1956) is a Malaysian lawyer who served as

the President of the Malaysian Bar Council from 2007 to 2009. She studied at
Convent Bukit Nanas and served as its Head Prefect in 1975.
Dato' Ambiga has been a practising Advocate and Solicitor since March 1982.
She is a founding partner of Sreenevasan, Advocates & Solicitors.
She was also a panelist of the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration
under the Malaysian Network Information Centre Domain Name Dispute
Resolution Policy (MYDRP) from 2006 to 2009. She was Chairperson of the
Intellectual Property Sub-Committee of the Bar Council from September 2005

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to March 2006. She was the Vice President of the Malaysian Intellectual
Property Association in 2002.
Currently, Ambiga is a Mediator on the Panel of the Bar Council, Malaysian
Mediation Centre. She is also Co-chairperson of the Bar Council Committee
on Orang Asli Rights and a member of the Executive Committee of the
Womens Aid Organisation. She is a Director of the Securities Industry
Dispute Resolution Centre. She has been involved in the drafting and
presenting of several papers and memoranda on issues relating to the rule of
law, the judiciary, the administration of justice, legal aid, religious conversion
and other human rights issues.
In March 2009, Ambiga became one of the eight recipients of the 2009
Secretary of State's International Women of Courage Award.[14][15] In the
ceremony, the United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton commented:

Ambiga Sreenevasan, has a remarkable record of accomplishment in

Malaysia. She has pursued judicial reform and good governance, she has
stood up for religious tolerance, and she has been a resolute advocate of
womens equality and their full political participation. She is someone who is
not only working in her own country, but whose influence is felt beyond the
borders of Malaysia. And it is a great honour to recognise her and invite her
to the podium.[16]

In July 2011, Ambiga was awarded an honorary doctorate in law by her alma
mater University of Exeter.[17]
Marc Barety, the ambassador of France to Malaysia, granted the Legion of
Honour insignia to Ambiga in 23 September 2011. She was recognised for
her contributions to the human rights defense.
Ambiga chaired Bersih 2.0, the organisation behind the July 2011 rally in
Kuala Lumpur that drew 20,000 people.[10] She summed up the main issues
raised by Bersih as "unhappiness... in the Sarawak [election], unhappiness
about corruption, [and] unhappiness about the lack of independence of our
institutions."[11] She said demands made during the first rally in 2007 have
not been addressed, hence the follow-up rally.[12]
Ambiga later said that the rally "exploded many myths" in Malaysia,
including the notion that people of different ethnic and religious backgrounds
could not work together and that the middle class was "too comfortable to
step up to the plate."[10]

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Her involvement in the Bersih 2.0 rally, however, was not without
controversy. While promoting "clean, free and neutral" elections, she also
admitted and found to have received considerable foreign fundings and
support from various organisations and foundations in the U.S.
The Malaysian Insider reported on June 27, 2011 that Bersih leader Ambiga
Sreenevassan "admitted to Bersih receiving some money from two US
organisations the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and Open Society
Institute (OSI) for other projects, which she stressed were unrelated to the
July 9 march.

TOH PUAN UMA SAMBANTHAN

Toh Puan Umasundari Sambanthan ne Subramaniam (born September

1929) is the wife of the late Tun V.T. Sambanthan, former Malayan Labour
Minister, president of the Malaysian Indian Congress and regarded as one of

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the founding fathers of Malaysia. She is an activist, social worker and leading
figure of the cooperative movement in Malaysia.
However, her education was interrupted by the Japanese Occupation from
1942 to 1945.
After the war, she went to India to study science at the University of Madras,
majoring in chemistry and graduating with First Class honours. She then
studied for a Masters degree at the Presidency College, Chennai in India.
Upon returning home, she taught in Singapore for three years but gave up
her teaching career and returned to Malaya in 1956, when she married the
young Sambanthan, the first MIC president.
She was only 27 years old during the proclamation of independence on
August 31, 1957. She still remembers what she wore on that momentous
occasion an off-white silk sari with a red border, a personal favourite as it
had been an engagement gift from Sambanthan.
"It was so symbolic... a sign that we were free of the colonial regime, free to
think for ourselves, free to lead our own country", she said.
It was truly a moment of great intensity. Uma and Sambanthan, who stood
behind the country's first Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman, did not speak
much as they were overcome with emotion as the Union Jack was lowered
and the Federation of Malaya flag raised.
The feeling of being present at the historical event on the eve of the
country's Independence Day was indescribable, said Uma.
"Many years have passed, but that feeling still lingers and I think it will live in
me forever", she said.
Uma was well known for her charity work and her work to raise the status of
women, especially in rural areas, and children. She was actively involved in
many women's organisations and was one of the founders of the National
Council of Women's Organisations (NCWO).
In 1956, she was made a founder-life member of the NCWO and held the
presidency for four years.
She was also an active member of the Associated Country Women of the
World (ACWW), helping to organise the Asian regional conference of the

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ACWW in 1961 and participating in another ACWW conference in Manila in

1966.
In 1960, she was the co-founder of Persatuan Sri Ramakrishna Sarada and
continues to be its general-secretary.
From 1960 to 1972, she was involved in the Children's International Art Class
which was committed to encouraging young children to have hobbies.
She was also the chairman and director of the National Land Finance Cooperative Society (NLFC) from 1980 to 1995 and its president in 1995 and
1996. The co-operative was established by her husband to prevent the
fragmentation of estates in the early `60s.
In 1996, she attended the Asian Regional Conference of the International
Cooperative Alliance in Kuala Lumpur. She is a member of the Asian Regional
Women's Committee formed at that meeting.
Today, she still keeps herself busy and helps out with the Sri Ramakrishna
Sarada Society's early childhood development programme.
In 1992, she was awarded the Tun Fatimah Gold Medal award by the NCWO
in conjunction with the Women's Day celebrations.

DATUK DR MAZLAN OTHMAN

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Mazlan Binti Othman (born December 11, 1951) is a Malaysian astrophysicist

who has served in several roles within her country, and as Director of the
United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs in Vienna.
Born in Seremban, Malaysia, Mazlan attended Tunku Kurshiah College, a
Malaysian prominent boarding school in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan. Her
aptitude for mathematics led to enrollment in a science curriculum, and
though her family encouraged her to become a physician MD, she decided to
pursue physics instead. She attended University of Otago in New Zealand on
a Colombo plan scholarship, earning a BSc. (honors) in 1975. She joined the
National University of Malaysia (UKM) as a tutor, but negotiated an extension
to her scholarship and returned to Otago, earning her Ph.D. in physics in
1981 - the first woman to do so since the University was founded in 1869.
Dato' Mazlan Othman returned to Malaysia as the country's first
astrophysicist, and worked to create a curriculum in astrophysics at the
national university, as well as to build public awareness and understanding of
astronomy and space issues. She also performed research for a semester at
the Kiso Observatory in Japan.[3]
Her interest in public education was rewarded in 1990 when Prime Minister
Mahathir bin Mohamad, a strong supporter of education and science, placed
her in charge of the Planetarium Division of the Prime Minister's Department,
overseeing development of Planetarium Negara, Malaysia's national
planetarium in Kuala Lumpur.[4] After the planetarium opened in 1993,
Mazlan was made Director General of the government's new Space Science

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Studies Division, where she launched a microsatellite development program.

She received a full professorship the following year.
In November 1999, Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations,
appointed Mazlan as Director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space
Affairs (UNOOSA) in Vienna.[5] At the request of Prime Minister Mahathir, she
returned to Malaysia in July 2002 to serve for five years as the founding
Director General of Angkasa, the Malaysian National Space Agency, where
her work led to the launch of the first Malaysian astronaut, Sheikh Muszaphar
Shukor.
Mazlan was reappointed as UNOOSA director in 2007 by Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon, and left Angkasa to return to the post that December.[6] At
UNOOSA she deals with issues of international cooperation in space,
prevention of collisions and space debris, use of space-based remote sensing
platforms for sustainable development, coordination of space law between
countries, and the risks posed by near-earth asteroids, among other topics.
In September 2010, several news sources reported the United Nations would
soon appoint Mazlan to be the ambassador for extraterrestrial contact,[7][8]
apparently basing their claims on remarks she made suggesting that the UN
coordinate any international response to such contact, and her scheduled
appearance on a Royal Society panel that October, "Towards a scientific and
societal agenda on extra-terrestrial life."[9] However, a UN spokesperson
dismissed the reports as "nonsense", dismissing any plan to expand the
mandate of UNOOSA,[10] and in an email to The Guardian, Othman stated,
in compliance to the wishes of the United Nations, "It sounds really cool but I
have to deny it."[11] She later explained that her talk would illustrate how
extraterrestrial affairs could become a topic of discussion at the UN, using as
an example the advocacy that led to UN discussion of near-Earth objects and
space debris.

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TUN DR SITI HASMAH MOHD ALI

Tun Dr. Siti Hasmah binti Haji Mohamad Ali is the wife of the 4th Prime
Minister of Malaysia, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad. She served as wife of the
Prime Minister of Malaysia for 23 years from 19812003.
She is currently the chancellor of the Multimedia University of Malaysia.
Siti Hasmah was born in Klang, Selangor on July 12, 1926 and obtained her
MBBS from the University of Malaya in Singapore. Tun Dr. Siti Hasmah was
one of the first Malay women to enroll for a medical course at the King
Edward VII College of Medicine in Singapore after World War II.
In 1955 she graduated as a medical doctor from the Faculty of Medicine,
Universiti Malaya, which was then located in Singapore. She subsequently
joined the government health service. She was one of the first Malay woman
doctors in then Malaya. She married Mahathir the following year in August.
Their first child, Marina, was born in 1957.
In the 1960s, she attended a public health certificate program in the
University of Michigan.

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Ten years later, she became the first woman to be appointed Medical Officer
in the Maternal and Child Health Department, and in 1974, she was the first
woman to be appointed the State Maternal and Child Health Officer.
Siti Hasmah is the author of several articles on family medicine and the
socioeconomic factors associated with pregnancy and childbearing in
Malaysia.
For her 23 years of public service, her voluntary work, and her leadership in
the fields of public health, literacy and drug abuse control, Siti Hasmah has
received many honours. The Yang di-Pertuan Agong, as well as the Sultan of
Selangor and the Sultan of Kedah, have bestowed titles upon her.
In 1988, she was awarded the Kazue McLaren Award by the Asia Pacific
Consortium for Public Health.
In 1991, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia conferred on her the Honorary
Doctorate in Medical Science.
In 1992, the Royal College of Physicians, Ireland, conferred on her the
Honorary Doctorate in Public Health.
In May 1994, Indiana University, Bloomington conferred on Siti Hasmah the
Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, and in August the same year, she
received an Honorary Doctorate of Law from the University of Victoria, British
Columbia, Canada.
On June 20, 1997 she was appointed as the Chancellor, Multimedia
University (MMU) and patrons MESCORP.
In 2003, she was conferred the highest honorary title of Tun along with her
husband, Dr Mahathir, by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King) of Malaysia.