Mga Kababaihan Sa MALAYSIA

MGA SIKAT NA KABABAIHAN SA BANSANG MALAYSIA

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'Oréal, 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.


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 L’Oreal and Sony. She has even

created her own modelling reality show, I Wanna Be a Model.


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

Award-winning 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


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 Légion 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 Malaysia’s

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.


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


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 Ling’s 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, Hermès, 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,


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 Baptiste-Mondino, 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 world’s top fashion magazines including international editions of Vogue, Harper’s 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.


SHEILA MAJID

Over the past two decades, Sheila Majid has been slowly but surely

dominating the international market. The country’s 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 non-

Indonesian 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 world’s 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 London’s 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.


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


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.


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".


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


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 Women’s 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 women’s 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]


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 née 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


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


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 Co- operative 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


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


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.


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 1981–2003.

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.


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.

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