Important events happened this week.
STATE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY: Head of State Tun Datuk Patinggi Abang Muhammad Salahuddin (seated centre) is pictured with Chief Minister Pehin Sri Taib Mahmud (seated sixth right), House Speaker Datuk Amar Mohamad Asfia Awang Nassar (seated sixth left) and members of the State Legislative Assembly (DUN) for a phototaking session.
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- STATE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY: Head of State Tun Datuk Patinggi Abang Muhammad Salahuddin (seated centre) is pictured with Chief Minister Pehin Sri Taib Mahmud (seated sixth right), House Speaker Datuk Amar Mohamad Asfia Awang Nassar (seated sixth left) and members of the State Legislative Assembly (DUN) for a phototaking session.
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- EXPANDING EAST: US software giant Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is seen speaking to the press in Tokyo. Microsoft has announced plans to expand enterprise cloud service Windows Azure in Japan and set new data centres in Tokyo and Osaka. — AFP photo
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- PRESTIGIOUS AWARD: Nitin Bhat, partner and head of Consulting, Frost & Sullivan (left) presenting the Frost & Sullivan Data Center Service Provider of the Year Award to Adrian Yong, president and group chief executive officer of CSF. The Data Center Service Provider of the Year award is conferred to the service provider based in Malaysia that has demonstrated exemplary growth and performance across the segments in 2012.
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- NEW POSITION: Indonesia on May 20 named Chatib Basri as its finance minister as the government prepares to raise the price of subsidised fuel and curb a current-account deficit that has hurt the rupiah. Basri was special adviser to former finance minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati from 2006 to 2010. He has a doctorate in economics and a masters in economic development from Australian National University. — WP Bloomberg photo
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- GLOBAL CONFERENCE: Photo shows the exterior of Borneo Convention Centre Kuching where the International Hydropower Association 2013 World Congress was held. Sarawak has long been recognised as having a large potential for the development of hydro electric power by virtue of its high rainfall and suitable topography.
