1 SUPPORT FOR LOCAL DESIGNERS
Raja Muda of Selangor Tengku Amir Shah Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah (seated, second from left), Kuala Lumpur Architecture Festival 2018 (KLAF2018) royal patron Tengku Zatashah Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah (seated, third from left), Malaysian Institute of Architects (PAM) president Ezumi Harzani (seated, right) and KLAF2018 director Ang Chee Cheong (seated, left) with the winning designers of KLAF2018 KL Chair competition — Tan Shin Bian (standing, left) and Ng Zhia Zhing — at Istana Mestika in Shah Alam on Wednesday. Sultan of Selangor Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah commissioned for his personal collection five chairs from the winning design, and part of the proceeds will be donated to charity organisation Make-A-Wish Malaysia.
2 MILESTONE
(From second left) Fukuoka Airport administrator (Osaka Regional Civil Aviation Bureau) Fumito Ohya, Fukuoka City deputy mayor Masanao Nakazono, AirAsia X Malaysia director Datuk Fam Ee Lee, its chief executive officer (CEO) Benyamin Ismail, Fukuoka Prefecture governor Hiroshi Ogawa, Fukuoka International Airport Co Ltd president and CEO Tetsuya Nagasao and Tourism Malaysia Tokyo deputy director Shahrul Aman Sabir Ahmad at the welcome ceremony for AirAsia’s inaugural Kuala Lumpur-Fukuoka flight at the Fukuoka airport yesterday.
3 PALM OIL MATTERS
Primary Industries Minister Teresa Kok (centre) receiving a memento from Indonesia’s Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Darmin Nasution at the 6th Ministerial Meeting of Council of Palm Oil Producing Countries in Jakarta on Thursday. With them are (from left) Colombia Agriculture Ministry’s agricultural rural planning unit director Felipe Fonseca Fino, Primary Industries Ministry secretary-general Datuk Dr Tan Yew Chong and Indonesia’s Deputy Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs (Food and Agriculture) Musdhalifah Machmud.
4 RELOCATION
(From left) Allianz General Insurance Co (Malaysia) Bhd chief sales officer Horst Habbig, Allianz Malaysia Bhd chief executive officer (CEO) Zakri Khir, Allianz General Insurance area manager Jimmy Hee, Allianz Life Insurance Malaysia Bhd CEO Joseph Gross and its chief sales officer Ong Pin Hean launching Allianz Kota Kinabalu’s new outlet at Riverson Walk on Tuesday.
5 EXCELLENT PARTNER
AmBank Group wholesale banking operations head Samuel Paul (left) receiving an appreciation of partnership award from Bank of New York Mellon managing director and regional head of relationship management Asia Pacific, Arnold Goldstein, in Kuala Lumpur on Monday. The award recognises AmBank’s excellence in partnership for trade export collection bills for last year.