MALACCA HIGH SCHOOL WINS PETRONAS ALL ABOUT YOUTH CONTEST 2017

Khamis, 16 November 2017 | 11:06pm

Pemenang pertandingan PETRONAS All About Youth (AAY) 2017 meraikan kejayaan mereka pada majlis penyampaian hadiah di Kuala Lumpur, malam ini.

SMK Tinggi Melaka juara AAY 2017

Oleh Basir Zahrom

basir_zahrom@bh.com.my

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KUALA LUMPUR: Projek aplikasi subjek sejarah ciptaan sekumpulan pelajar Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan (SMK) Tinggi Melaka dinobatkan sebagai juara pertandingan PETRONAS All About Youth (AAY) 2017.

Projek yang dinamakan HISTOMAP itu menyaksikan kumpulan berkenaan membangunkan aplikasi nota sejarah dalam bentuk peta minda.

Kemenangan itu membolehkan SMK Tinggi Melaka membawa pulang trofi, wang tunai RM50,000 sebagai dana untuk membaik pulih sekolah, manakala setiap ahli pasukan menerima RM1,000 didepositkan ke dalam akaun Skim Simpanan Pendidikan Nasional (SSPN).

Timbalan Ketua Pengarah Pelajaran, Dr Zainal Aalam Hassan, berkata program itu mampu memperkasa anak muda Malaysia untuk memainkan peranan masing-masing dalam membina komuniti harmoni.

Beliau berkata, ia juga dapat mempromosikan kesejahteraan sosial.

"Usaha (program) ini selari dengan inisiatif Kementerian Pendidikan untuk mempersiapkan generasi ini dengan kemahiran yang betul untuk menghadapi cabaran mendatang," katanya ketika berucap pada majlis penyampaian hadiah pertandingan itu di sini, sebentar tadi.

Yang turut hadir, Naib Presiden Kanan Strategi Korporat PETRONAS, Firouz Asnan.

Sementara itu, SMK Paka dari Terengganu mendapat tempat kedua dan SMK Lutong, Miri Sarawak meraih tempat ketiga yang mana masing-masing membawa pulang RM800 serta RM500 untuk dimasukkan ke dalam akaun SSPN pelajar.

Penganjuran tahun keempat pertandingan membabitkan 1,000 pelajar Tingkatan Empat dari 50 sekolah di Terengganu, Kelantan, Melaka, Johor, Sabah dan Sarawak itu turut menyaksikan SMK Sindumin, Sepitang, Sabah dan SMK Lokman Hakim, Kota Tinggi, Johor sebagai finalis.

Selepas menghantar kertas cadangan, setiap sekolah diwakili 20 pelajar diberikan RM1,000 untuk memulakan projek bagi menyelesaikan masalah komuniti setempat.

LETTER OF THANKS TO MAHSOPA FROM MHS PRINCIPAL

MAHSOPA recently received a Letter of Thanks from the Principal of Malacca High School.

It was for MAHSOPA contribution to the Public Announcement system to the renovated MHS School Hall.

MAHSOPA SPONSORED PA SYSTEM AT MALACCA HIGH NEWLY RENOVATED HALL

The first major function was held at the newly renovated hall.

MAHSOPA sponsored the PA system and handed over our sponsorship to the school.

The mock cheque was handed over to the principal, Dr. Ramnan by Dr. Leo Ann Mean as our MAHSOPA representative.

Response by MHS Principal.

PA...is excellent. TQ for the contribution and hope for future engagement from MAHSOPA.

MALACCA HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION CEREMONY

Today is Malacca High School graduation ceremony for 5th. and Upper Six formers.

NEW MHS SURAU BEING CONSTRUCTED

Besides the renovation works of our school hall, a new MHS surau is also being constructed.

Slated to be ready by December 2017. It is now about 60% completed.

MHS HERITAGE GALLERY

Malacca High School has set up a Heritage Gallery.

This gallery is housed above the school hall car porch.

MHS TO HOLD GRADUATION CEREMONY ON 12.10.17

Malacca High School will be holding their 9th. Graduation ceremony on 12 th. October 2017 at our newly renovated school hall.

Graduation scrolls will be given out to our high school graduates from Fifth and Upper Six formers on that auspicious day.

For the first time, air conditioners are installed in the hall and the stage.

An upgraded PA system has also been installed and sponsored by MAHSOPA

Our heartiest congratulations to all MHS graduates.

MELIORA HIC SEQUAMUR

MAHSOPA TO SPONSOR PA UPGRADING SYSTEM IN NEWLY RENOVATED MHS HALL

Our Malacca High School Hall has finally been renovated after 33 years.

Since her official opening in 1984, no major renovations works have been carried out.

Due to age and wear, some ceiling boards have dislodged over time, making the hall rather hazardous when assembly is held.

At the same time, water leaks from the roof damaged the wooden floor of the badminton halls.

The school managed to obtain a budget from the government authorities to carry out the overdue renovations.

Renovations started around April 2017 and works were completed in September 2017.

The hall will be air conditioned as well.

Good news for the school and our MAHSOPA members is that MAHSOPA is sponsoring the hall PA system upgrading works.

During our last 190th. Anniversary Dinner organized by MAHSOPA, we made some excess funds.

So, we can now assist our alma mater by sponsoring this important PA system for our school.

MALAYSIA GRAND PARENTS DAY

Malaysia has declared 2nd. October of each year for us to honour our grand parents as Grand parents Day.

Today is 2nd. October 2017 is our Grand Parents Day.

MALACCA HIGH SCHOOL HALL RENOVATED

Our school hall built in 1984 was recently renovated with funds allocated by the Ministry of Education.

Before the renovations, the ceiling boards were falling down from the ceiling.

The holes in the ceiling were unsightly and dangerous to the students.

The wooden floor of the hall were also damaged by water falling down from the ceiling.

So, in 2017 after funds made available by the Ministry of Education, it is renovated.

Below are some photos of our renovated school hall.

A sponsor has agreed to have the hall aircond.

The school has requested its PA system to be sponsored as well.

HAPPY 60 TH. MERDEKA AND NATIONAL DAY 2017

Today is our 60th. Merdeka and National Day.

MAHSOPA AGM AT KGNS 3.00PM ON 27.8.2017

MAHSOPA AGM 2017 was held at Seminar Room No. 1 at KGNS today.

Representatives from MAHSOPA Hong Kong also attended this AGM.

MAHSOPA AGM TO BE HELD ON SUNDAY, 27.8.2017

Our AGM will be held at KGNS Subang Jaya, Room 1 on Sunday, 27th. August 2017 at 3.00 pm.

All MAHSOPA members are invited to attend this AGM.

Refreshments will be served after our AGM.

MAHSOPA Committee 2016-2017.

MHS CLASS OF 1976 HELD 60 YEARS BIRTHDAY BASH

The school mates of MHS 1976 held their 60 years birthday bash on 29th. July 2017.

The auspicious event was held at Ramada Plaza hotel, Melaka.

More than 140 persons including their spouses attended including 30 former teachers and staff of Malacca High School.

School mates and former teachers from Hong Kong, Singapore and overseas flew in to grace this occasion.

A printed photo book is also being done to immortalized the photos taken that night.

MAHSOPA HK CHAPTER ACTIVATED

CONGRATULATIONS to our MAHSOPA HK Chapter from our MAHSOPA community around the world.

Our MAHSOPA HK Chapter was mooted in May 2017 by Dr. Arthur Mah.

He graciously agreed to start the ball rolling there.

So, our MAHSOPA Hong Kong Chapter has been activated by our MAHSOPA HK Chapter coordinator, Dr. Arthur Mah on Saturday, 5th. August 2017.

Arthur held a small dinner gathering at his residence in Hong Kong.

A number of former MHS graduates residing in Hong Kong attended.

Hopefully, more MHS graduates can join up and grow in time.

If any of our members know anyone who graduated from Malacca High and are currently residing in Hong Kong, please email us their name and email to: admin@mahsopa.net.

We will forward this information to our MAHSOPA HK Chapter coordinator.

MAHSOPA HK Chapter is our 2nd. overseas chapter.

The first was our MAHSOPA Singapore Chapter set up in 2016.

MAHSOPA OFFICIALLY APPOINT MAHSOPA HK REPRESENTATIVE

At our recent MAHSOPA Exco meeting on last Sunday, the Exco unanimously agreed to appoint our MAHSOPA representative in Hong Kong.

MAHSOPA HK Chapter is our second overseas chapter. The first MAHSOPA Chapter is MAHSOPA Singapore.
Our newly appointed MAHSOPA HK Chapter representative is our former MHS graduate.

He is veteran in Hong Kong and has been in Hong Kong since 1972.

This person has graciously accepted our appointment and he is none other than Dr. Arthur PY Mah.

Our Congratulations to Dr. Arthur Mah for being our pointman in Hong Kong.

We hope former MALACCA High graduates residing or working in Hong Kong and China can join up this newly formed MAHSOPA HK Chapter.

Those interested to join our MAHSOPA HK community, just email us your name, email, mobile number and last graduate year in MALACCA High to: admin@mahsopa.net.

We can then forward your name and contact to MAHSOPA HK.

Meliora Hic Sequamur.

MHS HALL BEING RENOVATED FINALLY

Good news. After all the complaints and comments about our MHS Hall opened in 1981, our hall is being renovated.

FORMER MHS PUPIL, DR CHUA RISKED HIS SAFETY TO DISCOVER NIPAH VIRUS

Dr Chua Kaw Beng had discovered the Nipah virus whilst it was still in the midst of the outbreak here that eventually killed 105 people and led to the culling of over a million pigs. — AFP picKUALA LUMPUR, Feb 27 — Dr Chua Kaw Beng is one of the most unassuming people you will ever see, but he is the man that possibly rescued Malaysia from one of the most virulent viruses known to man: the Nipah virus.

Today, the Nipah virus is well known, having been the inspiration for the 2011 movie Contagion, but in 1999, when it had been confused for Japanese encephalitis (JE), Dr Chua broke all manner of rules in order to prove his discovery.

In an interview with US media outlet NPR, Dr Chua recounted how, when he was still a virologist in training, he had discovered the Nipah virus whilst it was still in the midst of the outbreak here that eventually killed 105 people and led to the culling of over a million pigs.

He made the chilling discovery in the lab of Universiti Malaya (UM) where he was still studying, but was ignored by his professors when he brought his findings to them.

Local authorities had also not given the outbreak their full attention, then believing it was another JE incident with mosquitoes as the vector.

Dr Chua and Dr Tan Chong Tin, a neurologist also based at UM, noticed then that the disease was entirely absent from the Muslim population, but was ravaging Nipah, the home of many of the country's pig farms and where one in three families eventually lost someone to the virus,

“No, no I knew it was something else, and people were dying!” Dr Chua told NPR in the interview published on Saturday. “But no one would believe me.”

Dr Chua then decided to sneak samples of the virus into the Centers for Disease Control in the US, under the pretext of studying mosquito-borne diseases. He sealed the virus in his suitcase and carried it by hand on the flight to and into the CDC.

There, he would have access to the CDC's powerful microscopes that would allow him to clearly study the virus, but how he brought the samples into the centre broke many of its safety and quarantine procedures.

“It was an emergency… I had to get the samples there very quickly,” he explained.

As risky as the move was, it allowed Dr Chua to identify the virus as paramyxol, the virus family that contains both the Hendra virus and what would later be called Nipah, after the area that it most ravaged.

The discovery and later corroboration by other scientists at the CDC were crucial in convincing the Malaysian government then that the outbreak was not JE, prompting it to deploy the military in a massive culling operation that killed over a million swines.

It was discovered a decade later that the pigs had been infected by bats, and the clustered nature of farms then had made them what Dr Tan described as a “virus factory”.

The outbreak led to a complete overhaul of Malaysia's pig farming industry.

Dr Chua has since left the country for the Temasek Lifesciences Laboratory in Singapore, where he is senior principal investigator.

Dr Tan remains attached to UM as a neurologist.

Both men were part of the UM investigative team that was conferred such prizes as the Merdeka Award and the Mahathir Science Award for their efforts in discovering the Nipah virus.

- See more at: http://m.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/how-a-student-broke-the-rules-to-save-malaysia-from-the-nipah-virus#sthash.oMuribNB.dpuf

MCOBA NEWS

KUALA LUMPUR: UEM Sunrise Bhd’s unit, Sunrise Innovation Sdn Bhd, will develop the Malay College Old Boys Association’s (MCOBA) land in Kuala Lumpur into a mixed development project, with a gross development value (GDV) in excess of RM750mil.

The group said its subsidiary would build two blocks of service apartments, together with other supporting facilities on the 1.07ha site, located along Jalan Syed Putra in Seputeh.

“The unit size ranges from 1,100 sq ft to 1,500 sq ft, and the units are targeted for mostly owner occupiers, especially families and upgraders from the surrounding areas,” the parties said in a joint statement.

Under the deal inked between the group and the association on Tuesday, the development will also involve the construction of a new office building for MCOBA and a banquet hall with a capacity for 1,200 people.

UEM Sunrise managing director and chief executive officer Anwar Syahrin Abdul Ajib said the project provided an opportunity to leverage on the next property market upcycle.

“MCOBA land’s strategic location would appeal to city dwellers, due to its proximity to amenities and commercial hubs such as Mid Valley City and KL Sentral.

“Being centrally located and with easy access to the surrounding hotspots, the development will become a new landmark for the locality,” he said.

MCOBA president Tunku Datuk Ahmad Burhanuddin Tunku Datuk Seri Adnan said the collaboration would unlock the value of its asset and generate sustainable income for the association.

“This development is for our future as we continue our tradition and commitment to be part of the stakeholder support system to produce Malaysia’s leaders and captains of industries,” he said. - Bernama
Read more at http://www.thestar.com.my/business/business-news/2017/02/21/uem-sunrise-to-develop-rm750mil-project-on-mcoba-land/#GeVQoD4DzCepupfE.99

SFA INVITES MAHSOPA TO SFA ANNUAL DINNER AND DANCE

 St. Francis Association Malacca has invited MAHSOPA to their annual dinner and dance on Saturday, 14.1.2017.