{"id":711,"date":"2007-11-15T08:41:56","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T00:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2007\/11\/15\/krishnamoorthy-gets-award-from-transport-minister\/"},"modified":"2007-11-15T09:15:25","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T01:15:25","slug":"krishnamoorthy-gets-award-from-transport-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2007\/11\/15\/krishnamoorthy-gets-award-from-transport-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Krishnamoorthy gets award from Transport Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Krishnamoorthy found fame after saving people during the <a href=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2007\/10\/24\/krishnamoorthy-saves-ferry-passengers\/\">Tioman ferry tragedy<\/a>. Wonder if he had found a <a href=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2007\/11\/02\/tioman-hero-krishnamoorthy-wants-a-good-job\/\">job<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_header\">taken from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2007\/11\/15\/nation\/19475833&amp;sec=nation\">the Star<\/a><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"7\" width=\"364\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td> \t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/archives\/2007\/11\/15\/nation\/n_10chan.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> \t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div class=\"caption\">Hero honoured: Chan (left) presenting Krishnamoorthy with a certificate at his ministry in Putrajaya yesterday, as Deputy Transport Minister Datuk Douglas Uggah Embas looks on.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>At the Hari Raya and Deepavali open house at his ministry yesterday,&nbsp; Transport Minister Datuk Seri Chan Kong Choy presented wireman S. Krishnamoorthy, 18, a certificate of appreciation and a plaque. The young hero saved 18 passengers during the Seagull Express 2 ferry fire near Pulau Tioman last month.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n <\/p>\n<p>Taken from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/\">NST<\/a><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"7\" width=\"364\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/pix\/pix_top_11151\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<table>\n FERRY HERO: S. Krishnamoorty, 18, with the certificate of appreciation given by Transport Minister Datuk Seri Chan Kong Choy at his ministry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Hari Raya and Deepavali Open House in Putrajaya yesterday. Krishnamoorty saved 18 people after the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcSeagull Express 2\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 ferry fire near Pulau Tioman last month. Recalling the tragedy, Krishnamoorty said his only thought was to save as many lives as he could. Sharing his proud moment yesterday is his mother, P. Saroja, 42. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d NST picture by David Khoo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Krishnamoorthy found fame after saving people during the Tioman ferry tragedy. Wonder if he had found a job? taken from the the Star Hero honoured: Chan (left) presenting Krishnamoorthy with a certificate at his ministry in Putrajaya yesterday, as Deputy Transport Minister Datuk Douglas Uggah Embas looks on. At the Hari Raya and Deepavali open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}