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Malaysia Boleh! First Malaysian awarded British Knighthood

leetahbah

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He is now a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital and the director of the UK National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre in Ophthalmology at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London.

Congratulations to him, he's a big shot in UK, should give up Msia IC for British citizenship.
 

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http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nati...during-Queen-Elizabeths-birthday-honours.aspx

Never heard of him but congrats! See Sinkies we talk so much but no one ever get this honour.

The only honours Sinkies can get are national day awards


IIRC, our favourite poster boy LKY was also knighted?

Says so on the wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Kuan_Yew

 

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Unsinkified SGs also Boleh lah, if they manage to get rid of the PAPzis and more importantly Sinkies’ slave mentality!

The late Lord Michael Chan Chew Koon was member of the House of Lords. A Baron and not just a mere knight like this STEWpig Lee Con You. He left Sinkieland in the early 70s. This was the period when Lee Con You was consolidating the PAPzis’ power in Sinkieland – suppressing student unions, newspapers, etc. Tan Wah Piow, Francis Khoo, etc all fled Sinkieland during this supposed Golden Period of growth based on MNCs i.e. foreign steroids.
 
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Asterix

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Sinkies now complaining about their healthcare system? Hahaha! What would it be if they didn't let these Scums in White drive away all the native talents with their "ball-less, look the other way, you give me "free" lift upgrading everything also can" attitude?

From his obituary in the Guardian on 13th February 2006:

The Singapore-born Lord Chan, who has died aged 65 was the House of Lords' only peer of Chinese origin. One of his medical specialties during his last decade as Liverpool University's professor of ethnic health had been the vulnerability of ethnic minorities.
He was long-serving lecturer and consultant at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and an outstanding member of Liverpool's Chinese Christian community. In 2001 he became one of the so-called "people's peers".

He proved an outstanding success. After last May's election, he spoke in critical support of the new government's health programme, warning against inadequate anti-MRSA precautions. The year before, he joined Baroness Cox in condemning the Burmese military dictatorship, defending not only Aung San Suu Kyi but, even more, the Burmese Christians who are a special target of the Buddhist military.

He was a staunch, campaigning defender of all minorities. Writing to the Times in April 2004, as vice president of the Wirral Multicultural Organisation, he warned: "Equality of opportunity and equity of access to employment and promotion are essential safeguards against the dangerous voices of extremism."

He was born in still-colonial, Singapore, the son of a headmaster. He took his father's Christian name of Michael because the family were part of Singapore's Christian minority. Educated at Singapore's top Raffles Institution, he went on to study medicine at Guy's Hospital, where he met his wife Irene Wei-Len Chee, whom he married in 1965. They returned to Singapore, where he became a lecturer and consultant paediatrician at the University of Singapore.

Having a special interest in diseases of the blood, he returned to London in 1974 to study Von Willebrand's Disease at the University of London Institute of Child Health at Great Ormond Street Hospital. From 1976 he spent 18 years at the Liverpool School of Medicine as a senior clinical lecturer and consultant paediatrician. He helped train Indian doctors, especially paediatricians.

In 1994, he became director of the Leeds-based NHS Ethnic Health Unit, which financed health programmes for vulnerable ethnic minorities. From 1999 he became a director of two successive north-western primary health trusts. He joined the Sentencing Panel in 1999 and contributed heavily to the Commission on the Future of Multicultural Britain under its chairman, Lord Parekh, who reported in 2000. He joined the Press Complaints Commission in 2002.

In his Who's Who entry, he cited his enjoyment of "preaching". He was a church elder at Liverpool's Chinese Gospel Church. He also served as chairman of the Overseas Christian Mission, which kept him in touch with events such as the oppression of Christians in Burma.

He is survived by Irene and their son and daughter.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2006/feb/13/guardianobituaries.china
 

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The GCMG is not a Knighthood. It is an Order of Merit which in his case is Honorary.

Interestingly according to Wiki, Ong Teng Cheong was bestowed the same award in 1998.

GCMG IS a knighthood. However, only British subjects can use the style "Sir". Hence, if the person can be called Sir XXX, then he is a British subject.
 
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