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Indian Wedding Fair and Products Expo

July 28th, 2007

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For a perfect Indian wedding

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By CHRISTINA LOW

christinalow@thestar.com.my

Every couple dreams to have a perfect wedding while keeping up with the modern trends as well as adhere to customs and traditions.

Organisers for this year’s Indian Wedding Fair and Products Expo, which will be held from Sept 6 to 9 hopes to be able to fulfil it all for its visitors.

“We also want to educate young couples this year on the true meaning of each religious ritual held in the temple.

Wedding partners: (From left) SMIDEC enterprise development and entrepreneurship manager Muneswari Munusamy, GV Exhibition representatives Siti Subaidah Adil and MS Mathy at the press conference for the Fourth Indian Wedding Fair and Products Expo recently.

“Most of them do not know what it means and just follow what is organised by their parents,” said GV Exhibition Sdn Bhd representative MS Mathy.

Hence, this year the organisers would be holding a mock wedding session on the last day of the expo where a priest would be on hand to translate the meaning of each prayer and ritual.

According to Mathy, Indian wedding packages and services are highly in demand not only within the Indian community but also among other races.

More than 50,000 visitors are expected to attend the four-day event at the Mid Valley Exhibition Centre.

There will be about 80 booths featuring wedding gifts, cards, beauticians, flowers, dais, entertainers, caterers, photographers, astrologers, and matchmakers.

Among the highlights of the event is a seminar on ‘Sex Communication in a Conservative Society’ which will be presented by Yayasan Strategic Social (YSS) and the ’50th Merdeka Celebrations – 50 Golden Years of Marriage’ program that will feature 10 couples celebrating their 50th Wedding Anniversary this year.

For details on the expo call 03-5891 9988 or visit www.iwf-ipe.com

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Dr Kadeer Ibrahim Talk at Kuala Selangor

July 25th, 2007

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This program was organised by Majlis Guru Besar Daerah Kuala Selangor and Sabak Bernam together with United Malaysian Indian Club on 23th July 2007 at Sri Subramaniam Temple, Kuala Selangor as a follow up to the SJKT UPSR Education Seminar held on 14th July. More than 300 students from 26 primary SJKT schools took part. The hall was brimming with students. Prof Dr Kadeer talked on Motivation and Learning Techniques in the session with students which lasted for about 2 hours (3-5pm).

The evening session for parents was from 8 – 10pm in which he talked about problems faced by parents, what parents need to do, the roles of parents and teachers, importance of education etc. About 300 parents attended this session.

Some of the photos of the seminar are available at: Picasa

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Indian population in Penang dwindling

July 25th, 2007

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Malaysia Nanban reported that the Indian population on Penang island is dwindling, saying that the high cost of living had driven many families to the mainland and to Kulim and Sungai Petani in Kedah.

The paper quoted MIC deputy president Datuk G. Palanivel as suggesting that the Penang Hindu Endowment Board – the only government-run board in the country that looks into the welfare and maintenance of Hindu temples – carry out various housing schemes on the island to settle the Indians..

It could be one of the measures to increase the Indian population on the island, he said.

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Devotees from Malaysia and Singapore fulfil vows to deity for transsexuals

July 24th, 2007

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By WANI MUTHIAH

KLANG: The five-day celebrations dedicated to Goddess Bahuchara Mataji, the Hindu presiding deity for transsexuals, ended yesterday in a ceremony that saw some 400 participants from Malaysia and Singapore at a temple in Pandamaran near here.

The temple, dedicated to the deity whose main temple is in Shankhalpoor in Gujarat, India, is owned and managed by the local Hindu transgender community.

The celebrations began last Thursday with the highlight on the third day when devotees fulfilled vows by carrying pal kudam (milk pots) and thee chatti (earthen pots with fire).

Dressed in green sarees, the official colour for Bahuchara Mataji, the entourage, led by the community's matriarch M. Asha Devi, 63, carried the pal kudam and thee chatti to the temple.

Two devotees balancing milk pots as they enter the temple at Pandamaran last Saturday.

This was followed by a chariot procession in the evening with Pandamaran assemblyman Datuk Dr Teh Kim Poo as the event's special guest.

Asha Devi said preparations for the celebrations began several months ago, as arrangements had to be made to accommodate the devotees.

"Devotees also prepare themselves by fasting for at least three months before carrying the pal kudam and thee chatti," said Asha Devi, who runs a food outlet in Kuala Lumpur.

According to her, a flag bearing the Goddess' emblem was raised on the first day followed by an ubayam (special prayers) on the second day.

"The fourth day was also observed with prayers for Mataji. On the final day, which is today, we have special prayers for a male deity known as Veera Vetai Karar Muniandy followed by anathanam (feeding of the masses)," she added.

Meanwhile, S. Komathi, 50, who cooked for the devotees, said this year's event was special as they were praying hard to obtain a piece of land from the state government to build a proper temple.

"The temple is currently situated in the home of one of our members' grandmothers. Due to space constraints we cannot do any renovation," said Komathi who owns a flower shop in Klang.

Komathi said the community badly needed a bigger temple to accommodate the crowd.

"In the past, it was only our community which prayed here but now others are also coming to the temple."

For K. Janani, 27, who came all the way from Singapore to carry the pal kudam, the event was both fun and colourful.

"I like the festive atmosphere. I have been coming here for the past two years to offer prayers as our community does not have a dedicated temple in Singapore," Janani added.

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Landing gear scare for Air Asia flight

July 21st, 2007

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thanks to Jeff Ooi who pointed this out!

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia

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An Air Asia flight from Kuala Lumpur landed safely in the Cambodian capital Monday after being forced to circle around the airport for about 10 minutes when its landing gear initially failed to deploy, an aviation official said.

There were 130 passengers on board the Airbus A320 which landed at about 4:30 p.m., said Keo Sivorn, head of Flight Safety Operations at Cambodia's Secretariat of Civil Aviation.

"The plane had to circle, flying for about 10 minutes around the airport before its landing gear worked properly," he said. "Now it has landed safety and all the passengers are fine."

The plane was operated by Malaysia-based Air Asia.

Four fire trucks were standing by in case the plane had trouble on landing, Keo Sivorn added.

He said technicians were inspecting the plane to find out why the landing gear failed and see if it had any other problems.

On June 25, a Russian-made An-24 plane crashed during a storm while flying to the southern coastal town of Sihanoukville, killing all 22 people on board. It had taken off from Siem Reap, the country's main tourist hub and site of the famed Angkor Wat temple complex.

The plane was operated by PMT Air, a small Cambodia airline that began flights in January from Siem Reap to Sihanoukville, a new route launched to spur the country's burgeoning tourism industry.

The last major air accident in Cambodia was in 1997, when a Vietnam Airlines TU-134B crashed while trying to land during a rainstorm at Phnom Penh International Airport, killing more than 60 people.