Appreciate if you could help her to continue live on
Pls help to pray for my friend's daughter Amber.. Appreciate if you could help her to continue live on, every single cents means alot to her and her parents.. Thank my dear friend
This is my friend's daughter, Amber Gan Dan Ni. She was born on 4th February 2015. Amber was living as healthy as any other normal babies until the 12th da? She was admitted to Regency Hospital, JB when my friend Nancy Chan found out that she was having difficulties in breathing.
After some check up done in Regency Hospital, Amber was diagnosed with Hypo-plastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS). The percentage of babies diagnosed with HLHS is 0.16-0.36/1000. Amber was the unlucky ones.
I received a call from Nancy on 16th Feb 2015. I was told that she's on the way to IJN with Amber in an ambulance. When I visited Amber in IJN, her condition was critical. I couldn't hold my tears seeing a mother who is still under confinement holding her baby asking her not to give up.
Amber is a strong girl. She didn't give up. Specialist came, unfortunately her parents was told that such a major surgery is unable to carry out on a 12th days old baby. What we can help that moment is to contact all major hospital in Malaysia and Singapore, sending out Amber's report to them. But sadly, the replies are the same. No surgery can be done on Amber.
They went back to Regency Hospital the next day, just 2 days before CNY. Fortunately, Dr Koh from Regency Hospital gave them a glimpse of hope. He suggested Amber to National Taiwan University (NTU) Hospital. The successful rate for this surgery is as high as 80%. At that moment, the only hope for the parents is to get Amber treated. Therefore, they charted a flight with medical equipment and medical team to Taiwan because Amber needs oxygen and incubator for her to reach Taiwan safely. Amber did puked a few times during the journey, but she is tough enough to reach NTU.
Amber never give up. Stage 1 operation was successfully done. Amber still needs to go through 2 more surgeries in order to live on like a normal child. We are so proud of her! Such a courageous girl we have. She has the will power to live!
As a parents, their secondary concern is the sky high medical expenses. Amber medical expenses will reach up to RM800,000 and unforeseen expenses may require too. I hope all my friends here will be able to give them a helping hand by contributing or raising some funds to ease their burden on Amber medical expenses. Any amount that is comfortable and affordable is appreciated. Every ringgit that you contribute will help Amber to live on.
We sincerely thank you for your contribution
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The lawyers for Jho Low, the London firm Schillings have now finally issued a statement on behalf of the tycoon, in response to questions from the news agency AFP. The widely reported response acknowledges that Low was “consulted” on the PetroSaudi joint venture deal with Malaysia’s 1MDB development fund, “but has never been involved in criminal acts with respect to this transaction”. This latest statement contrasts with earlier claims by Jho Low’s spokespeople Edlemen in New York, who announced last year on his behalf:
“Mr. Low has never held any position in 1MDB or in the Malaysian government. Mr. Low was appointed as one of the many advisors invited by the stakeholders of Terengganu Investment Authority (TIA) to provide advice from Jan 2009 to mid-May 2009 given his market-based knowledge. Mr. Low has not been involved in TIA since mid-May 2009.“[Statement by Low’s PR company Edleman in May]
The PetroSaudi joint venture deal took place between September 8th and September 29th of 2009.
Patrick Mahony – sought “letters of comfort”
And Sarawak Report has copies of detailed correspondence between Jho Low, 1MDB and the managers of PetroSaudi, relating to what appears to have been a further $1 billion paid out in loans by 1MDB to the oil company during the course of 2010. That money appears itself to have been borrowed by 1MDB and ought therefore legally to have been declared to the Bank Negara Malaysia by 1MDB, according to expert advice given to Sarawak Report. However, the correspondence shows that Jho Low, who took an authoritative role in the negotiations, was insisting to colleagues that the Central Bank should not be informed of the loan, because it would cause “unnecessary delays”. Crucially, Low repeatedly informed PetroSaudi Director Patrick Mahony, who was anxious for confirmation that the Central Bank had indeed authorised the loan, that this was not needed because only:
” Mof approval is required for the loan which we have signed by pm who is also FM”
No need to tell Central bank, we have Ministry of Finance Approval and FM (also PM) has signed…
This claim appears to confirm that the Prime Minister was fully engaged in these negotiations and had personally signed the loan by 1MDB to PetroSaudi, without having passed it by the Bank Negara. It also appears to confirm that Jho Low was acting as the interface between the Prime Minister/ Finance Minister on such matters with PetroSaudi. Of even more concern is an apparent decision by Jho Low together with the “FM who is also PM” to leave the Bank Negara in the dark about the loan, despite the anxious and repeated requests by PetroSaudi’s own lawyers for a “letter of comfort” to confirm that the bank had given its approval, which they insisted was legally required. As PetroSaudi boss Patrick Mahony put it to Low in the course of the correspondence:
“I know you know my guys are freaking out”
Yet, Low continued to insist that because the loan was “off-shore to off-shore” there was no need to declare the transaction to the bank and the legal advisors could be ignored. As he put it “Bank Negara consent not required”:
JL: Bank negara consent not required
JL: As its foreign borrowings
JL: So we r sending offshore to offshore
JL: Or else we’ll have unncessary delays
Patrick: According to your lawyers it is
JL: Take it out pls
Patrick: We had it last time
Patrick: We need comfort we are getting this money in an approved manner
JL: Last time local borrowings
JL: This is foreign
JL: Just don’t want bnm [Bank Negara Malaysia] to delay it
Experts linked to Bank Negara have confirmed to Sarawak Report that this is not the case and that because a loan was involved, which 1MDB a public body was ultimately responsible for, the bank should have been informed. Jho Low was wrong.
How half a billion dollar loan was fixed via BBM
These revealing exchanges between Mahony and Jho Low took place through Blackberry messenger between Wednesday 21st July and Tuesday 27th July 2010, according to Mahony.
Kept in the loop, PetroSaudi’s Tarek Obaid – but how about 1MDB’s own chiefs?
He then sent the entire transcript by email to his fellow Director Tarek Obaid to put him in the picture about the situation. It places the conversations in the days running up to a planned loan deal to PetroSaudi of USD$500 million dated 26th July 2010. Mahony refers to “Monday” as the date decided, which was indeed the 26th and corresponds to papers acquired by Sarawak Report, which relate to a USD$500 million Murabaha loan agreement between 1MDB and PetroSaudi, dated on that day.
From: Patrick Mahony To: Tarek Obaid Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:11:33 +0200Subject: Bbm transcript This is my conversation with jho – it is between last wednesday and today… Participants: Patrick, JL Messages:
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Another key aspect of this significant exchange is the casual acknowledgement by Jho Low that responsibility and liability for the loan would lie with 1MDB:
JL: Just insert “any required regulatory approvals” so its
mdb’s [1MDB’s] liability n responsibility
JL: That covers all rather than specific bnm [Bank Negara Malaysia]
But, yet again 1MDB appears barely to be engaged in this negotiation.
Nik Faisal Ariff Kamil, UBG’s man in 1MDB
As with the previous joint venture loan agreement the preceding year, the executives of 1MDB seem to be virtual by-standers in the affair, with the UBG bank place-man, Nik Faisal receiving documents from PetroSaudi as agreed with Jho Low. In the event, it appears that because of Mahony’s protests the original loan plan may have indeed eventually have been reported to the Bank Negara, an outcome which was described by Jho Low as “worst case”. Low confirms that he had already got Ministry of Finance and 1MDB Board approval for the loan, but because Mahony had flagged up the issue over getting Bank Negara approval as well he might have to fly to KL to sit down with the lawyers and work things out, a worst case scenario. It begs the question as to why the Minister of Finance and Board had signed without checking the matter with the Central Bank, since this was required? The entire exchange once again destroys any suggestions that Jho Low was merely engaged in a distant consultative role when it came to the negotiations between PetroSaudi and 1MDB.
USD$160 million went to Jho Low’s company
Jho Low’s interest in the loan deal was plain to see from the documents that eventually covered the distribution of the money. As Sarawak Report has previously demonstrated $160 million out of the $500 million loan was sent to the RBS Coutts Zurich account of the company Good Star, which was controlled by the tycoon. The remaining $340 million went to the PetroSaudi operating account held by JP Morgan in Geneva. Whether there were two identical loans that went through on July 23rd and then September 8th, or whether the Central Bank was indeed informed, resulting in the “worst case scenario” envisaged by Low – a delay till September – is something that merits further research by the official Audit Office investigators, who are now being tasked with examining what happened at 1MDB. Given the close links to the UBG bank buy out by many of the players in these 1MDB loan negotiations, it is worth noting that PetroSaudi’s offer for UBG was announced in January 2010, but that the buy out was not completed until September 29th. Meanwhile, a USD$500 million transfer was made to PetroSaudi from 1MDB on September 8th. Then, on September 16th, Tarek Obaid, as Director of PetroSaudi International (Seychelles), paid USD$260 million into its subsidiary Jarvace Sdn Bhd, which bought UBG.
Capital transfer to Jarvace Sdn Bhd just days before
Yachts in the South of France
The revelations about Jho Low’s role in these dealings, while actively a Director on the UBG board, throws inevitable scrutiny onto his personal relationship with the Prime Minister/Finance Minister/ Chairman of the Board of Advisors of 1MDB. Jho Low, far from acting as a mere advisor, was clearly heavily involved in the deal and in directing it with the avowed support of the Malaysian Prime Minister.
Altogether, Rosmah, Taib, Raziah & Robert Geneid at Monaco Aug 2010, after enjoying a stint on the PetroSaudi hired Tatoosh
His close relations with the PM and his family can not be in doubt over this entire period and this socialising also connected closely with the Taib family, the majority owners of UBG.
Two weeks beforehand Jho Low was living it up in St Tropez with Paris Hilton. Newspapers in New York had registered Jho Low when he first started splashing money in October 2009 straight after the PSI joint venture was signed.
In the August of 2010, in the middle of these transactions, the Prime Minister and his wife were the honoured guests in Monaco of Prince Albert. Here Rosmah played sponsor to the first of a series of Islamic Fashion Shows, designed to raise money for the Prince’s Environment Foundation. The Taibs, the Geneids, the Hii family and Rosmah and Najib joined Prince Albert’s entourage at the extravagant fashion event after having reportedly spent time on Jho Low’s hired yacht off the South of France.
The Tatoosh was rented just before the event by PetroSaudi to entertain Malaysian friend in the South of France
Rosmah then presented a $100,000 cheque to Prince Albert’s foundation, which Sarawak Report has already reported was in fact funded by the Sarawak timber tycoons, the Hii family, who are cronies of the one of the world’s worst destroyers of the environment, Taib Mahmud. Low is believed to have told his guests that the yacht (which rents out at around half a million dollars a week) belonged to the owner of PetroSauid, Prince Turki bin Abdullah, the son of the King of Saudi Arabia. Earlier, in late 2009, there had clearly been another such gathering in the South of France. According to the correspondence, Jho Low contacted the PM’s office for photographs:
From: Low Jho To: wanshihab@gmail.com, Tarek Al-Obaid Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 03:29:32 +0000Subject: Re: Pictures from South of France (PM Najib & HRH Prince Turki) Thanks so much Wan! ——Original Message—— From: wanshihab@gmail.com
To: jho.low@gmail.com
To: Tarek Al-Obaid
ReplyTo: wanshihab@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Pictures from South of France (PM Najib & HRH Prince Turki)
Sent: Dec 26, 2009 11:25 PM Dear Jho and Mr. Tarek Al Obeid, It would be a pleasure to email you the photos of HRH. Unfortunately I am away with the Prime Minister at the moment whereas the photos are back in Malaysia and is not immediately accessible. I will send it through as soon as I return. Hope that’s alright. May I take this opportunity to extend to you the season’s greetings and wish you a Happy New Year. Warmest regards, Wan ——Original Message—— From: Low, Jho
To: wanshihab@gmail.com
Cc: Tarek Al-Obaid
ReplyTo: jho.low@gmail.com
Subject: Pictures from South of France (PM Najib & HRH Prince Turki)
Sent: Dec 27, 2009 9:08 AM Dear Mr. Wan Shihab, Would you pls kindly email the pictures you have of The Hon PM Mohd Najib Razak with HRH Prince Turki Al-Saud and Sheikh Tarek Obaid asap? They wld like it strictly for their private records. I have cced Tarek on this email so you can email him and cc me asap. Thanks.
This may have been a private meeting, but it appears to have related to matters of public interest.
A year on, what's the latest in the hunt for Flight 370?
SYDNEY (AP) — Nearly a year has passed since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, sparking one of the most perplexing mysteries of modern times. Since then, search crews have taken to air, land and sea in a thus-far fruitless hunt for the plane and the 239 people who disappeared with it.
The current phase of the search in the deep, dark and desolate waters of the Indian Ocean has failed to yield a single clue about the plane's fate. Still, despite the lack of fresh leads, the official heading up the search is no less optimistic than when it began.
Here is a look at the latest in the hunt for Flight 370:
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Q: How far along is the search?
A: Crews have scoured more than 40 percent of the priority search zone — a 60,000-square-kilometer (23,000-square-mile) area of the Indian Ocean about 1,800 kilometers (1,100 miles) west of Australia. An international team of investigators who analyzed transmissions between the aircraft and a satellite believe this is where the plane eventually crashed.
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Q: How much longer is the search expected to take?
A: Despite occasional delays due to rough weather and equipment snafus, officials believe they're on track to finish searching the priority zone by May.
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Q: What happens if they don't find the plane?
A: One option includes expanding the search beyond the priority zone to a wider search area — an imposing, 1.1-million-square-kilometer (425,000-square-mile) stretch of ocean, says Australian Transport Minister Warren Truss. Exactly how long that would take to complete, and how much it would cost, is unknown.
Ministers from Australia and Malaysia — which have each contributed $60 million to the current search effort — will be meeting with their Chinese counterpart next month to decide whether — and how — to fund another search.
"Obviously, the more partners we have in the search, the greater the capacity to search a larger area," Truss says. "And so we'd certainly welcome participation from other countries."
FILE - In this March 31, 2014 file photo, HMAS Success is viewed from a Royal New Zealand Air Force …
If officials decided to extend the search, they would want to continue using the vessels, crews and equipment currently looking for the plane, Truss says.
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Q: How is the search being conducted?
A: There are four ships, each with around 30 people on board, combing the priority zone. Three of the ships are dragging sonar devices called "towfish" just above the seabed to scan for wreckage. In January, a fourth ship, the Fugro Supporter, joined the hunt.
The Supporter is using an autonomous underwater vehicle — essentially an unmanned submarine — that can more easily maneuver along the mountainous, uneven seabed in a few areas the towfish can't fully cover. Unlike the towfish, the underwater drone doesn't send real-time data back to the ship, so crews must haul it up at the end of each 24- to 36-hour mission to download the data.
The ships head back to shore every four weeks or so to get fresh supplies — a trip that takes up to six days each way.
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Q: Are searchers still looking for floating wreckage?
A: Technically, yes, says Martin Dolan, chief commissioner of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, which is leading the search. After studying the area's currents, Australian officials asked Indonesia in August to watch for any debris that might have floated west to the island nation's shores. Officials are now reviewing their drift modeling to see whether they need to revise their projections of where debris could have ended up. But because so much time has passed, Dolan says all surface debris likely sank long ago.
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Q: Do the chances of finding the plane in the priority zone become less likely as the search drags on?
A: No, Dolan says, because they haven't been able to pinpoint any areas within the search zone where the plane would have had a higher probability of crashing. Officials could only narrow down the most likely crash site to the 60,000-square-kilometer (23,000-square-mile) priority zone. "Some people think there's a hot spot in there that should be a starting point, but it's pretty much equal priority across that area," Dolan says. "So it's no great surprise that having covered 40 percent, we haven't located it yet. It might be down to the last 1 percent before we do."
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Q: What happens if they find the plane?
A: Australia recently asked for expressions of interest from companies with equipment capable of retrieving wreckage from the seabed, which is an average of 4,000 meters (13,000 feet) deep. But bringing it to the surface would be complex.
Search officials would first need permission from the governments involved — namely Malaysia and Australia — to retrieve the wreckage. Then they would have to figure out the best way to do so.
Officials would need to map the area, photograph the debris and get specialized vessels, crews and equipment to the remote search site. All told, Dolan estimates that if the plane is found on the seabed, it would be at least a month before the recovery process even begins.
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Q: If the plane is found underwater, what kind of condition would it be in after a year?
A: Although pressure on a plane deep in the ocean would be extreme, currents at those depths would be relatively mild — meaning there's no real concern about debris continuing to scatter once it hit the seabed. After studying the condition of the wreckage from Air France Flight 447, which was found at a similar depth two years after crashing into the Atlantic Ocean, officials think any underwater debris from the Malaysian plane would be relatively well-preserved.
"It's not going to be a pristine aircraft," Dolan says. "But for our purposes, we expect that the aircraft remains will be in satisfactory condition."
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Q: Do officials still think they'll find Flight 370?
A: Dolan, who all along has expressed "cautious optimism" that they will find the plane, says his feelings haven't changed. If anything, he leans more toward optimism than caution these days.
He's cautious because of the scant data that led them to focus their search on the Indian Ocean. "This is hugely dependent on technical analysis of quite limited satellite information," he says. "We're always as confident as we can be in the reliability of that, but we have to remind ourselves it's not certain — it's only highly likely."
Conversely, he's optimistic because he is confident in the search crews and equipment, and the high quality of data they're getting from the sonar.
"If the aircraft is out there," Dolan says, "we will find it."
THE 239 passengers and crew flying with Malaysia Airlines from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing early on the morning of March 8, 2014, had no reason to be nervous.
Every day throughout the world, more than eight million people board planes to fly to their destinations.
In the 21st century, air travel is one of the safest forms of transportation thanks to the sophistication of aircraft, the professionalism of Air Traffic Controllers, and strict monitoring by safety regulators.
Furthermore, Malaysia Airlines had a strong safety record, and an enviable reputation within the airline industry as a world class premium carrier.
On board the Boeing 777 was the usual mix of travellers - business people, holiday makers, lovers, relatives looking forward to family reunions.
The plane took off without incident at 12.41am local time.
Less than an hour later, the aircraft had lost contact with Air Traffic Control and disappeared from standard radars.
Military radars showed the plane had in fact diverted from its planned flight path back over the Malay Peninsula.
Its last confirmed position before going out of radar range was 370km north-west of Penang, in north-western Malaysia.
Exactly what was occurring on board at that time remains unknown.
AT 85, Irene Burrows is hoping she lives long enough to find out what happened to MH370.
The mother and mother-in-law of Australian passengers Rodney and Mary Burrows, Irene has long accepted she will never see her son and his wife again.
But she has not given up hope the jet will be found and an explanation provided for its mysterious disappearance.
“I was hoping before Christmas (it would be found) and then before Rodney’s 60th,” says Irene from her central Queensland home at Biloela.
“You’re always hoping you’ll hear something.
“For the first week, we thought they’d find it.
“Now I hope that it happens in our lifetime. My husband (George) is 87, and I’m 85.
“That’s probably the only thing that keeps us going. I’d love to know before I go.”
Incredibly in an age of sophisticated technology, where satellite dishes can reportedly spot a cricket ball in a desert, there are more questions than answers about MH370’s fate.
Hard facts about the aircraft’s disappearance are so few they barely fill a page.
We know the Malaysia Airlines’ flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing took off at 12.41am local time.
We know the weather conditions were good, and the pilot and copilot were well respected with 40-years’ flying experience between them.
We know that the first 38-minutes of the flight were unremarkable, at least as far as those on the ground were concerned.
We know that after the aircraft’s final transmission to Kuala Lumpur Air Traffic Control — “Goodnight Malaysian three-seven-zero” — the Boeing 777 was never heard from again other than a series of satellite pings.
Beyond that, piecing together the fate of MH370 has been an exercise bogged down in confusion and contradictions, wild speculation and for the next-of-kin, enormous grief and frustration.
For the first week after the flight’s disappearance it was thought the plane had crashed into the South China Sea or Gulf of Thailand.
It took the release of military radar data followed by satellite information for the search focus to shift to a remote stretch of the southern Indian Ocean.
Now after extensive air searches and a costly and ongoing underwater search, nothing of the Boeing 777 has been found. Not so much as a lifejacket, a seat or an oil slick.
Detailed drift modelling forecast wreckage would start washing up on the shores of western Indonesia late last year. Nothing appeared.
Last moth Australian Transport Safety Bureau chief Martin Dolan said they were reviewing the drift modelling to try to work out where something might materialise.
But he admitted it was more likely any surface debris had now sunk.
The question of the absent wreckage is just one of many facing searchers who are the first to point out they are working with estimates and probabilities — not certainties in relation to the missing aircraft.
To put the size of the challenge into context, Commissioner Dolan points out that in the 2009 case of Air France Flight 447 they knew where the A330 crashed in the Atlantic Ocean but it still took two years to find it.
Even with 40 per cent of the 60,000 square kilometre priority search zone now explored without result, Dolan is maintaining a positive outlook.
“The search equipment and the search in terms of the area being covered is all meeting and in some cases exceeding our expectations,” Dolan says.
“If all goes in accordance to plan as we expect it will, we’ll have completed our search by the end of May.”
The exercise has not been cheap.
Australia’s government allocated $89.9 million towards the search, being jointly funded by Malaysia’s government.
What happens when the money runs out and the plane still hasn’t been found, is one of the multitude of questions hanging over MH370.
First and foremost — why did the plane divert so dramatically from its path in the first place?
Was it in some strife?
Was it a deliberate act by the pilot or first officer?
Was it under control by someone other than the pilots?
They are not the only questions that have gone unanswered in the last year.
Why didn’t Malaysia send up fighter jets to escort the plane — when it stopped communicating with ATC and diverted from its course?
Why did it take four-hours for the plane’s disappearance to be referred by Air Traffic Control to Malaysian search and rescue authorities?
And the most confounding — how could an aircraft as sophisticated as a Boeing 777-200ER carrying 239 people simply disappear without a trace?
So baffling is the mystery of MH370, no-one has been able to come up with an explanation considered plausible.
