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PETALING JAYA: Constance Haslam’s soothing voice on the airwaves in the 1970s to 1990s is something that many local radio listeners remember fondly.
For over two decades, she was a household name...
Malaysian contemporary artist Ise dies aged 46
Contemporary artist Roslisham Ismail, or better known as Ise, whose artistic practice spanned social relations across generations, cultures, class and geography, died of health complications at Kuala ...
Nobel-winning author Toni Morrison dead at 88
(Reuters) - U.S. author Toni Morrison, whose 1987 novel "Beloved" about a runaway slave won a Pulitzer Prize and contributed to a body of work that made her the first black woman to be presented the N...
César Pelli, Argentine architect behind the Petronas Towers, dies aged 92
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - César Pelli, the Argentine designer behind the iconic Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia, has died aged 92, state media and officials said on Friday, marking the passing of one...
IOI Group executive chairman dies
PETALING JAYA: IOI Group executive chairman Tan Sri Lee Shin Cheng has died.
He was 79.
A family member said that details of the funeral arrangements would be made known today.
According to ...
Former Pahang Ruler Sultan Ahmad Shah dies at age 88
KUANTAN: Pahang’s Paduka Ayahanda Sultan Ahmad Shah Al-Musta’in Billah died at the National Heart Institute in Kuala Lumpur at 8.50am yesterday.
The sad news was announced by Pahang Mentri Bes...
Popular 1970s singer Dahlan Zainuddin dies
KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): Popular 70's singer, Datuk Dahlan Zainuddin, died at 9.48pm on Tuesday (May 28) at the Selayang Hospital here. He was 78.
His wife, Datin Effa Rizan, when contacted by Berna...
Remembering Historian Khoo Kay Kim.
PETALING JAYA: Emeritus Professor Tan Sri Dr Khoo Kay Kim, widely regarded as Malaysia's national historian, died of lung failure on Tuesday morning (May 28) at the University Malaya Medical Centre a...
Legendary consumer rights pioneer S.M. Mohamed Idris of CAP dies
GEORGE TOWN: Malaysia's iconic consumer advocate S.M. Mohamed Idris has died of heart failure. He was 93.
The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) president passed away peacefully at 4.45pm at th...
Architect I.M. Pei dies at age 102 - New York Times
(Reuters) - I.M. Pei, whose modern designs and high-profile projects made him one of the best-known and most prolific architects of the 20th century, has died, the New York Times reported on Thursday....
Chinese literary giant Louis Cha dies, aged 94
Categories Corporate
HONG KONG: Renowned Hong Kong author Louis Cha, whose epic martial arts thrillers inspired numerous films and sold some 300 million copies worldwide, has died aged 94.
Known by his pen name Jin Yo...
’Godfather’ of Hong Kong film dies
Categories Corporate
Hong Kong: Raymond Chow, the film producer credited with bringing kung fu legend Bruce Lee to the silver screen and widely regarded as the “godfather” of Hong Kong cinema, has died aged 91, report...
Malaysians pay homage to the 'father of all superheroes'
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysians joined the world in paying tribute to Stan Lee, the iconic figure responsible for creating some of the most beloved superheroes around.
The American comic book cr...
IGB's Tan Chin Nam passes away
Categories Corporate
PETALING JAYA: Property tycoon Datuk Tan Chin Nam (pic), 92, the co-founder of IGB Corp Bhd and Tan & Tan Developments Bhd, passed away yesterday.
Chin Nam started from humble beginnings as a s...
HK property billionaire Walter Kwok dies, family says
Categories Corporate
HONG KONG: Walter Kwok, the former chairman of Hong Kong real-estate developer Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd, died on Saturday morning at the age of 68, according to a statement from his family.
“W...
SEMENYIH MEMORIAL HILLS
Categories Burial Services, Funeral Parlour, Memorial Parks
Semenyih Memorial Hills Bhd (“SMH”) is a provider of integrated bereavement case services in Malaysia. It owns and operates a premier memorial park , Semenyih Memorial Hills or Jing An (静安...
Heaven Funeral Care
Categories Casket & Urn Sellers, Caterers, Florists, Funeral Undertakers, Photography, Prayer Services, Transportation
One stop professional, personalized and genuine funeral services. We go the extra mile to make the funeral more personal and conduct it with dignity and respect for your loved one. Our list of service...
Aspire Counselling Services
Categories Counseling
Aspire provides counselling services to individuals, couple and children dealing with personal issues, depression, marital problems, grief, trauma, parent and teenage problems. We also provides play t...
Memorial Services
Categories Burial Services, Canopy, Casket & Urn Sellers, Caterers, Counseling, Crematorium, Feng Shui, Florists, Funeral Parlour, Funeral Undertakers, Memorial Parks, Prayer Services, Transportation
Xiao En Group is one of the most integrated and prominent memorial bereavement services in Malaysia since 1987.
Xiao En is the first in Malaysia to establish private landscaped cemetery - Xiao En M...
ENRICH COUNSELLING & THERAPY CENTRE
Categories Counseling
WE CARE • WE LISTEN • WE ACCOMPANY
We SUPPORT you to go through the journey of grief recovery.
We, professional counselors/ therapists provide grief counselling services to children, adolesc...
DYNAMIC COUNSELLING CENTRE
Categories Counseling
Address : D-11-28, Avenue D Vogue, 3A Jalan 13/2, 46200 Petaling Jaya. ( 15 minutes away from UMMC, The School Jaya One, Jaya 33 )
Opening hour - by appointment on weekday and weekend.
Counselli...
DSJ LUXURY HEARSES & LIMOUSINES
Categories Transportation
We at DSJ Luxury Hearses and Limousines believe in giving honoured individuals no less honour when they pass on. We believe in dignified farewells and there's no compromise on that. Send your loved on...
WHITE ROSE FLORIST
Categories Florists
White Rose Florist has been in operation since 2005 in SS15, Subang Jaya, Petaling Jaya. We specialized in fresh flowers for all occasions such as hand bouquet, basket arrangement, fruits & flow...
TRINITY FUNERAL SERVICES
Categories Burial Services, Casket & Urn Sellers, Caterers, Funeral Undertakers, Photography, Prayer Services, Transportation
TRINITY FUNERAL SERVICES pride ourselves for being one of the very few Bereavement Care entities in Malaysia that caters to grieving families for all their needs during the demise of a loved one with ...
NIELDELIA FLORIST & GIFTS
Categories Florists
Nieldelia Florist & Gifts is an online florist based in KL where we offers professionally designed flower bouquets for all occasions paired with outstanding customer service.
We make an impress...
FLOWER CHIMP
Categories Florists
We partner with professional florists to create a unique assortment of fresh flower bouquets and arrangements for any occasion. We currently have an expanding variety of almost one hundred products av...
EDEN FUNERAL SERVICES
Categories Canopy, Casket & Urn Sellers, Crematorium, Funeral Undertakers, Transportation
EDEN Funeral Services is a premier Christians & Catholics only bereavement care service provider. We are highly committed to serve with great Compassion, Care, Dignity and Respect and continuously...
THE PRETTY BLOOMS
Categories Florists
The Pretty Blooms started out as a very small shop in the beginning. Founded by Lucy Lau in 1993, The Pretty Blooms has since become one of the most sought florist in its area. We produce quality and ...
M.I. CASKET
Categories Casket & Urn Sellers
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M.I.Casket has been operating since 1989 and has grown to be one of the top service provider in the Klang Valley. Our principle is to provide professional service and e...
VALLEY PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES
Categories Counseling
What can you do when you go through a significant loss? Remember, there is no right way to grieve. People grieve in different ways. Grief takes time. We heal better when we share our grief. We can put...
flowericious.com.my
Categories Florists
With dignity, reverence and respect, Flowericious will design and fashion a tribute that assists you to personally remember a loved one who has sadly departed. A lasting memory, fashioned by a living ...
LIGHTHOUSE PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLBEING CENTRE
Categories Counseling
Lighthouse - a symbol of hope, guidance and vision in a world of possibilities and challenges; lighting the way as we navigate through rough waters. Lighthouse was founded by a group of psychologists ...
KL FUNERAL SERVICES
Categories Canopy, Casket & Urn Sellers, Caterers, Crematorium, Funeral Parlour, Funeral Undertakers, Prayer Services, Transportation
We provide services such as funeral undertakers, prayer services, transportations, selling caskets and urns, catering, canopy and crematoriums. In any case if you require any further clarification, do...
CLAIRE FLORIST & GIFT SHOP
Categories Florists
Claire Florist & Gift Shop was first established in 1973 and located in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia. We were registered and approved as a member of Interflora New Zealand in 1977. Interflora...
BLOOMING FLORIST SDN BHD
Categories Florists
Blooming.com.my is an award winning online florist based in Malaysia. Delighting customers since 1981, Blooming shares the joy and laughter of special moments with thousands of beautiful flower arrang...
Thinking about dying can spur you to live a better life
Categories Bereavement, Grief Management
By DATUK DR ANDREW MOHANRAJ
Queen Elizabeth II’s death was reported to have been communicated internally in one coded phrase: “London Bridge is down.”
It is said that from that momen...
Cemeteries offer proxy service for Qing Ming
Categories Uncategorized
Compiled by ALLISON LAI , NALINIE MEGANATHEN and R.ARAVINTHAN.
CEMETERIES in China’s major cities began offering a unique service online for the Qing Ming festival – sweeping tombs for thos...
Burial of ashes at sea offers a green option
Categories Funeral Planning, Ritual
SHANGHAI: The general procedure for sea burials in Shanghai is simple: After a traditional funeral service onboard a ship, family members of the deceased are taken to the designated waters, where ...
Ex-envoy, G25 member Redzuan Kushairi passes away
Categories Death, Expressing Condolences, Memorial
KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): Datuk Redzuan Kushairi (pic), a former Malaysian ambassador to Uzbekistan and a member of the G25 group of eminent Malays, died on Friday (Feb 22). He was 69.
Redzuan d...
An unsung hero
Categories How to
“I voluntarily donate my body for the good of others.” – This is the great wish of an i.SilentMentor, who is described as a good person who holds good thoughts and does good deeds for the public...
Saving babies was his life’s calling
Categories Death, Expressing Condolences, Virtual Memorials
DR JAPARAJ Robert Peter (JRP) was a loving husband, a caring father, a wonderful friend, a dedicated doctor, a passionate teacher and a godly soul.
But how else was Dr JRP diffe...
Last Christmas with my mother
Categories Deceased, Expressing Condolences
WHILE attending Sunday service one day, my mum suddenly collapsed.
The pastor stopped his sermon.
My mum was quickly attended to by my aunt and my sister who is a medical staff, and was rushed t...
First ‘death festival’ in Malaysia
Categories Funeral Planning
WHEN the late Datuk Choo Ching Hwa retired from the political scene in the 1980s, two critical community functions caught his attention – ageing and death care.
About 30 years ago, he started...
Immortalised splendour at Nirvana
Categories Culture
Unlike the soil characteristics of other burial grounds, the 215-acre Nirvana Memorial Park in Klang distinguishes itself with the presence of red and yellow soils, two auspicious colours symbolising ...
Dealing with the death of a loved one
Categories Grief Management, How to
Soraya did not say much when her mother passed away. During the funeral, relatives and strangers came to hug her but there was little response from her.
In the weeks that followed, Soraya's...
Helping children cope with loss
Categories Grief Management, How to
The loss I am referring to may be through death, divorce or abandonment.
The manifestations of grief symptoms in children are not always the same as those in adults. And often children become forgo...
Make time for loved ones
Categories Culture
I have just taken a week off for a staycation. I am not sure if this is an accepted word in Scrabble but it can be found in The Oxford English Dictionary.
Basically, it means “a holiday spent in ...
StarLIVE - Beyond Grief
Categories Expressing Condolences, Grief Management
Psychotherapist-cum-grief therapist Dr Edmund Ng gave a talk entitled "Beyond Grief: A Guide for Recovering From The Loss of A Loved One" at Menara Star on Aug 6.
...
Surviving the holidays
Categories Bereavement, Grief Management
When we have lost a loved one, the festive holidays are often a time we would rather skip as so many things will remind us that someone is missing and that, in turn, hurts. We may feel like just going...
Support for the dying
Categories Bereavement, Funeral Planning, Will Writing
If the patient whom we care for dies unexpectedly, we are devastated. Openly discussing the possibility of death is less emotionally difficult when the critically sick person is still able to talk abo...
Reaching out to bereaved children
Categories Bereavement, Grief Management
When we reach out to bereaved parents, we must not neglect their children. Bereaved children also mourn and they need our attention to help them work through their grief.
Infants of less than two y...
Moving on in grief
Categories Bereavement, Grief Management
Bereavement refers to the loss of a loved one while grief is our reaction to that loss. Grief is intense anguish or acute sorrow which can be so painful that the grieving person often looks for ways t...
Peace after bereavement
Categories Bereavement, Funeral, Funeral Etiquette
The tension is palpable in the lift that Datuk Freddy Chan and I share with a grief-stricken Chinese family at the Nirvana Memorial Center in Sungai Besi, in Kuala Lumpur. The household head – a mi...
Life of parents after the death of a child
Categories Bereavement
Spouses who have lost their partners are widows and widowers. Children who have lost their parents are orphans. But there is no term to describe a parent who has lost a child.
Locally, some of thos...
Looking for consolation
Categories Bereavement
No one, in any culture, likes to talk about death, let alone the fact that it’s an inescapable reality for all of us. In the west, there’s an obsession with youth, vitality and beauty – the ide...
Grief: How to go on after your loved one dies
Categories Grief Management
It has been four years since his wife died. On a glass table in their home, there are two framed photographs of her: one taken when she was a young woman, the other when she had matured into middle ag...
When writing your will, make sure your wishes are known
Categories Will Writing
Housewife K.G. Lim, 61, was devastated when her husband passed away after a heart attack in 2005. When she learnt that he died intestate, Lim felt her world had crumbled.
“As I tried to make sens...
How to cope with grief
Categories Grief Management
With a strong support system, the grieving can learn to live again.
ESTHER would have turned eight this year. It is not hard to imagine her, pretty as a princess, in a pink ballet costume, with her...
Gift wrapped for return to maker
FUNERALS are not a good topic at a birthday party. But as it turned out, it was the subject of one of the most deeply affecting conversations I’ve had in a long time.
It was also entirely appropr...