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World Toilet Organisation inducts late Sibu MP into its Hall of Fame

SIBU: The late Datuk Robert Lau Hoi Chew, has been inducted in the World Toilet Organisation (WTO) Hall of Fame.

Lau was the second recipient for this highest award to an individual for his selfless dedication in promoting a clean toilet culture in the country.

The first recipient was Dr Bandeswar Pratak of India.

Lau's wife, Datuk Janet Lau Wednesday received the award in the form of a trophy from the vice-chairman of Quality Restroom Association of Malaysia (QRAM), Hassan Hamzah.

Lau passed away on April 9, last year at the Selayang Hospital in Kuala Lumpur.

Source: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/11/2/nation/20111102201230&sec=nation

W awancara bersama YB Timbalan Menteri Kementerian Perumahan dan Kerajaan Tempatan Malaysia (KPKT) seperti butir berikut.

Tarikh: 28 Oktober 2011 (Jumaat)
Jam : 10.00 hingga 11.00 malam bermula - siaran lansung
Siaran: 502 Bernama
Tetamu khas : YBTM KPKT dan wakil QRAM
Tajuk: Tahap kebersihan Tandas Awam

Source: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/showbiz/article/shah-rukh-khan-leads-life-saving-toilet-campaign/

Source: http://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news.cfm?NewsID=79347

Source: http://www.theborneopost.com/2011/10/04/dbkk-mahu-semua-tandas-di-bandaraya-bersih/

Giant toilet outside parliament a message on poverty for sitting members
AAP - September 20, 2011 12:11PM

A GIANT toilet has been set up outside Parliament House to draw attention to global poverty and the link between decent sanitation and preventable deaths.

Federal MPs today joined a queue to help raise awareness for the 2.6 billion people around the world waiting to gain access to a toilet.

Students, retirees, teachers, plumbers, aid workers and church leaders took part in the Voices for Justice event as part of the Micah Challenge campaign to ensure global poverty stays firmly on the political agenda.

The link between access to sanitation and global deaths was clear, national coordinator John Beckett said, adding about a quarter of the 8.1 million annual child deaths could be prevented.

“That's two million kids who could be saved,” he said.

Lack of access to a toilet was not only enormously dehumanising, it was literally a matter of life and death.

“No-one should be dying for a dunny,” Mr Beckett said.

The group is calling on the government to increase its aid allocation for water and sanitation to $500 million by 2015.

AAP

source: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/giant-toilet-a-message-on-poverty-for-sitting-members/story-fn59niix-1226141717024

The Star, Friday September 16, 2011

Moving ahead: Loh is a former student of St Xavier’s Institution.

PENANGITE John S.C. Loh took the helm of the Malaysian Professional Centre (BIM) after being elected at the 38th annual general meeting recently.

The 63-year-old former student of St Xavier’s Institution is a chartered surveyor by training and an alumni of the University of Hull, the National University of Singapore and the Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.

Among the honours he has received are the K.M.N. (Federal), S.S.A (Selangor) and the P.J.K. and P.K.T. (Penang).

He is also the current chairman of the AAA Group of Valuer, Property Managers, Estate Agents and Property Consultants.

Besides, Loh continues to be active in the Lions Clubs International having served in the position as District Governor for Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei in 1981 and 1982.

He has also served many other non-governmental organisations in various capacities including as president of the Tree Planting and Protection Group of the Malaysian Nature Society, the president of the Quality Restroom Association of Malaysia and vice-president of the World Toilet Association.

He was also in the executive board of the International Real Estate Federation and the Pacific Basin Economic Council.

Among other achievements include him and his wife being listed in the Malaysia Book of Records for planting 110,416 trees in one minute all over Malaysia in 2000.

Loh hopes to engage Malaysians with professional qualifications from the broad spectrum of professions, to play a greater role in nation-building through involvement in the transformation programme of the New Economic Model focusing on the human capital development, public delivery system and enhancing competitiveness, productivity and efficiency of the services sector.

BIM was established with the assistance of the Commonwealth Foundation in 1973 to serve as the umbrella body for all professions recognised by legislative acts of parliament in Malaysia.

Membership has since been extended to include all other professional groups and disciplines where the recognition by the government authorities is still in progress.

The Malaysian Association of Productivity is an associate member and Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak is the patron, just like his predecessors.