UPCOMING EVENTS

Second YTS Fund Raising Dinner 

The 2nd Tun Suffian Foundation Fund Raising Dinner
Saturday 7th August 2010 at 8.00 pm
at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Kuala Lumpur

Since its establishment on 11 June 2002 under the Joint Royal Patronage of Their Royal Highnesses the Sultan and the Raja Permaisuri of Perak, the Tun Suffian Foundation has, among other things, awarded financial assistance to young Malaysians pursuing law studies and young lawyers attending educational seminars and conferences both here and abroad.

The most prestigious of these awards is the Cambridge Tun Suffian Scholarship, modelled on the Rhodes Scholarships, the oldest international fellowships initiated after the death of Cecil Rhodes in 1902 to bring outstanding students to the University of Oxford.

The Tun Suffian Scholarship has received official recognition from the authorities at Cambridge. In March 2008, Low Weng Tchung, a Perak-born Malaysian student became the first Tun Suffian Scholar at Cambridge where he obtained a first class in the LLM degree. In December 2009, Azlin binti Sabtu, a Senior Federal Counsel at the Malaysian Attorney-General’s Chambers currently pursuing the LLM degree in Cambridge, became the second Tun Suffian Cambridge Scholar.

Since the beginning of this academic year, the Board resolved to make the following awards to deserving Malaysians studying at Malaysian public universities:

• LLB (10 scholarships);
• LLM (11 scholarships):
• PhD (12 Scholarships).

As the Foundation thrives only on the affection and generosity of close friends, relatives and admirers of the late Tun, the Foundation now proposes to organise its second Fundraising Charity Dinner and would like to appeal to you once again for your generous support.

A joint-Committee consisting of members of the Bench, the Bar, the A-G’s Chambers and Trustees of the Foundation has been set up to organise this Charity Dinner at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel on 7th August 2010. Their Royal Highnesses the Sultan and the Raja Permaisuri of Perak, as Joint Royal Patrons of the Foundation, have kindly agreed to grace the occasion.

And invitees shall be seated in accordance with their respective tax-exempt donations to the Foundation in the following order:

(a) 1 Grand Royal Table RM 50,000.00 per seat
(b) 1 Royal Table RM 30,000.00 per seat
(c) 10 Diamond tables RM 10,000.00 per table
(d) 15 Platinum tables RM   5,000.00 per table
(e) 22 Gold tables RM   3,000.00 per table

Only 4 Grand Royal and 6 Royal seats are available for participating invitees. Each of the other tables accommodates ten seats

You need not of course donate towards the cost of a full table and should you so decide, you may choose to donate on the basis of seats as follows:

• Diamond tables RM 1,000.00 per seat
• Platinum tables RM    500.00 per seat
• Gold tables RM    300.00 per seat

Or for fellow lawyers whom wishes to just make a donation, can do so at a minimum of RM100 per Lawyer and RM500 per Firm.

I am appealing to you, or the organisation you are associated with, to once again donate generously to the Foundation to ensure its continued existence in order to serve the country’s younger generation with the hope that some day soon, they would emulate and put into practice the values and aspirations of the iconic Tun Suffian.

Please make your donations by cheque or bank draft made payable to YAYASAN TUN SUFFIAN BERDAFTAR. All donations shall be issued with tax-exempt receipts under Section 44(6) of the Income Tax Act 1967.

Please feel free to contact to the Honorary Secretary of the Foundation at info@tunsuffianfoundation.org for more information on the Foundation and the forthcoming Royal Charity Dinner.

With warmest regards.

Yours sincerely

Tun Mohamed Dzaiddin
Chairman
Tun Suffian Foundation

*All donations shall be issued with tax-exempt receipts under Section 44(6) of the Income Tax Act 1967.