Candle light vigil for the victims of AirAsia8501

AirAsia QZ8501 crashed

Malaysian Club of Chicago sends our condolences to the families of the victims of the Malaysia-based AirAsia QZ8501 crashed into Java Sea.

AirAsia Flight 8501

Our thoughts & prayers are with the passengers & crew members of the missing Malaysian owned AirAsia flight 8501.

Malaysian Club of Chicago

12/27/2014

MCC Officers 2014-2016

Congratulations to the following MCC Officers elected today (12-13-14) for 2014-2016:

President: ​Sue Christensen 

Vice-President: Azelena Williams

Treasurer: ​Catherine Wang 

Co-Secretaries:​ Yves Ng
                          Lawrence (Larry) Vandre

MCC election 2014

To ALL members of MCC: 

Malaysian Club of Chicago will hold a Special Election for the purpose of electing 2014-2016 Officers. 

Date: December 13, 2014 (Saturday)
Time: 2:00pm 
Address: 553 West 31st Street Chicago IL 60616 

Please come to vote for the new officers. Thank you! 

Malaysian flag raising (Merdeka 2014)

The Malaysian American community celebrates Merdeka 2014  (57th Malaysian Independence Day) at the Daley Plaza with raising the Malaysian flag alongside the US Flag. Both 
US and Malaysian National Anthem will be played when the flag is raised.

Noon time audience will enjoy this exceptional moment where the City of Chicago declares a day of Malaysian Independence Day and the sharing of Malaysian culture in the program.

Date:  Friday, August 29th, 2014

Time: 12 pm - 1pm (Gather at 11:30pm)

Location: Daley Plaza,  50 W Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602

(312) 603-3054

Do drop by and be part of this annual historic moment of the Malaysian Flag flying with the US Flag in the City of Chicago.

Malaysia Flag Raising at Daley Plaza (Friday, Aug 29, 2014 at 11:30am)

In conjunction with Malaysia’s 57th Independence Day Celebration which fall on 31st August, Malaysian Club of Chicago will host a "Flag Raising Ceremony" .

Every year, Malaysians in Chicago will gather at Daley Plaza for “Flag Raising Ceremony”, a symbolic and patriotic event where Malaysian are given the opportunity to raise the Malaysian flag there. Since the location is among the tourist attractions in Chicago, people who are happened to be at the venue would get the opportunities to witness the ceremony and understand about Malaysia from the explanation given by Malaysian who are present and from the brochures provided at the available booths.

Come and join Education Malaysia Chicago to witness the great event.

Merdeka Celebration - Aug 30, 2014

Merdeka Day's Picnic @ Preserve Forest Busse Woods, Schaumburg, IL - August 30, 2014

Let's have a GREAT SUMMER PARTY!

MCC is organizing Malaysia Merdeka Day's (Malaysia Independence Day) Picnic event in conjunction with Hari Raya Aidilfitri celebration.

Local Malaysian delicacies will be served to satisfy your craving and feel like home so do not miss this chance.
Besides food, we also will have some games, activities and competitions for kids and adults. Absolutely a fun family event! Please come and join us on August 30, 2014 (Saturday).


12:30 p.m. Guests arrival and check-in
1.00 p.m.  Lunch
2.00 p.m. - 6 p.m. Games, activities and competitions 

Fee: $10 per person age 12 or over ($11.34 w/ service fee)

        Free entrance for kids from age 0 ~11

To RSVP and make online payment, click http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/819386 Please remember to bring your confirmation with you during check-in.
Online ticket will end by Wednesday Aug 27, 2014 @11:59pm. However you still can purchase your ticket onsite at $20 per person age 12 or over.

Location: our picnic is at Busse Woods again but in a different grove. Make sure you look for Grove 29. It is located at the junction of I-90 and I-290 in Schaumburg. Exit I-290 and go straight until you reach Golf Road. At the traffic light turn right going east. Then take the FIRST RIGHT entrance into Busse Woods. The Merdeka Day's Picnic is at Grove Shelter 29. (attached Map)

Please bring lawn chairs and blankets.


Please call Sue at 847-226-4361 or email: malaysianclubchicago@gmail.com if you have any questions. See you there, rain or shine.

Sincerely,
Malaysian Club of Chicago (MCC)

Malaysian Flag raising ceremony, Aug 29, 2014

https://www.facebook.com/events/515179995281391/

Upcoming Events- Flag Raising Ceremony & Merdeka Day's Picnic

Hi MCC Friends and Families,

Please save the date for below 2 events. Details will be follow.

1) Flag Raising Ceremony @ Daley Plaza, Chicago. Friday - Aug 29, 2014 @11:00am

2) Merdeka Day's Picnic @ Preserve Forest Busse Woods, Schaumburg.Saturday - August 30, 2014 @12:30pm

Best Regards,

Malaysian Club of Chicago 

MH17 victim: Elaine Teoh

【留澳槟城女大学生证实在MH17乘客名单中】 ,真是天忌红颜啊！大家默默哀悼祈福…

【留澳槟城女大学生证实在MH17乘客名单中】 在澳洲著名的墨尔本大学求学的马来西亚槟城女生Elaine Teoh，已被证实在被击落客机的乘客名单中。

MH17 Candle lights vigil July 18, 2014

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=823953087623318&id=633074913377804

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Local-Malaysian-Group-Seeks-Chicago-Connections-to-Plane-Crash-267549511.html

http://abc7chicago.com/news/chicago-vigil-held-for-malaysia-airlines-victims/197382/

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/story/26058279/vigil-held-in-chicago-for-souls-lost-on-mh17

http://wgntv.com/2014/07/18/chicagoans-hold-vigil-for-malaysia-flight-17-victims/

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/28738513-418/chicago-malaysian-communitymourns-with-candlelight-vigil.html

http://www.worldjournal.com/view/full_il/25467904/article-298支燭光-芝城大馬會悼空難亡靈?instance=il_news

http://ny.stgloballink.com/chicago/2014/0719/117256.shtml

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-chicago-malaysian-flight-mh17-vigil-20140718,0,6267069.photogallery?index=chi-chicago-malaysian-flight-mh17-vigil-201407-005

MH17 crashed today

Our thoughts & prayers are with the families of the victims of the MH17 crashed today.

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/story/26049329/chicago-communities-mourn-for-souls-loss-on-mh17

MAS MH370 candle light prayers

http://www.nbcchicago.com/video/#!/news/local/Chicagos-Malaysian-Mourns-Deaths-of-Plane-Passengers/252118241

http://www.worldjournal.com/view/full_il/24803140/article-馬來西亞協會-燭光追思馬航罹難者馬航罹難者?instance=il2

http://news.ifeng.com/gundong/detail_2014_03/25/35120938_0.shtml

http://ny.stgloballink.com/chicago/2014/0326/80638.shtml

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/video/9980332-officials-malaysia-airlines-jet-went-down-in-indian-ocean/

Fox Ch12:

MH370 disaster 3/24/14

Malaysian Airlines MH370

Here is the link re yesterday's interview:

http://wgntv.com/2014/03/09/malaysian-flight-missing-presumed-crashed-in-south-china-sea/

National and World News
Malaysian flight missing, may have turned back before disappearing

• 

  7 hours ago
  by Erik Runge
  Reporter

  
  

  They are already well into Sunday morning in Malaysia, the FBI has team and the U.S. Navy has a ship heading to the area, but let’s be clear, no one is saying this is anything but an accident despite two passengers using stolen passports to board the plane.

Officially the plane is still listed as missing but few are optimistic and most, including those of the Malaysian community here in Chicago, are already passing along their condolences.

In Beijing where Malaysia airlines flight MH370 was supposed to land, families and loved ones of the 239 on board wait for word on what happened after air traffic control lost contact with flight shortly after it took off from Kula Lumpur.

Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein Malaysian acting Minister of Transportation, “We are trying to do everything in our powers to find where the plane is.”

A Vietnamese pilot spotted some oil slicks while flying over a search area in the South China Sea but so far no traces of the Boeing 777.

Jim Tilman aviation expert, “It sounds like a really bad situation.  I’ve been trying to come up with every scenario that it could just to explain this way but I haven’t been very successful.”

Catastrophic failure is the leading explanation for a plane with an excellent safety record.  The passengers on board hailed from at least a dozen different countries, though more than half were Chinese nationals.

Three were Americans ob board, an adult with ties to Texas who had been working in Asia for IBM and two young children ages 2 and 4.

Kim Tee of the Malaysian Club of Chicago says, “Kind of praying and waiting.”

Doctor Kim Tee, the founder and president of the Malaysian Club of Chicago says he’s been watching the coverage of the disappearance since last night.  Doctor Tee says there are about 300 to 500 Malaysian families in Chicago.

I’ve been trying to contact them all to find out if any family members find out if they are any passengers or not.

So far everyone he’s contacted has been accounted for, but he knows his country is hurting.

“Very difficult, my heart goes out the passengers and family and crew members.”

As the search continues, US authorities have been investigating what if any connection the two people who used stolen passports may have had in the disappearance.

Of the two passports one was reported stolen from an Italian the other from an Austrian who had their passport stolen more than two years ago.  Also tonight we are learning that 20 on board were working with a Texas based semiconductor company.

Read more: http://wgntv.com/2014/03/09/malaysian-flight-missing-presumed-crashed-in-south-china-sea/#ixzz2vTzgtfyn

AACC Awards 2-22-2014

記者陳嘉倩／芝加哥報導

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泛亞美譚繼平紀念獎得主、華埠更好團結聯盟主席陳增華(右一)獲頒獎牌，右二為譚繼平之子譚小平，右三為大芝加哥亞裔聯盟主席Megan Nakano。（記者陳嘉倩／攝影）

泛亞美譚繼平紀念獎獲獎人、華埠更好團結聯盟主席陳增華(左起)、模範社區服務獎華裔社區得主蕭艾萍、傑出青年獎華裔社區得主梅曉鋒。（記者陳嘉倩／攝影）

迎接馬年的大芝加哥亞裔聯盟農曆新年晚會，22日在歐海爾機場凱悅飯店舉行，華人社區除了華埠更好團結聯盟主席陳增華獲頒「泛亞美譚繼平紀念獎」(Pan Asian American Ping Tom Memorial Award)外，另有蕭艾萍(AnneI-Pin Shaw)、梅曉鋒(Derek Mei)、Kevin Lim、鄭麗霞(Alicia Tee)、徐明慧(Victoria Tu)等五位華裔，都在今年晚會多個項目獲頒獎表揚。

進入第31屆的大芝加哥亞裔聯盟農曆新年晚會，今年由日裔社區主辦。大會以「超越竹子天花板」(Beyond the Bamboo Ceiling)為主題。

以非亞裔友人為表揚對象的「Sandra Otaka亞美大獎」(Grand Asian American Sandra Otaka Memorial Award)今年頒給了聯邦眾議員蕭考斯基(Jan Schakowsky)。蕭考斯基擔任伊州民代八年，於1998年當選聯邦眾議員至今，是移民眼中公認優秀民代。

陳增華不遺餘力為亞裔社區服務，獲獎實至名歸。早在多年前，大芝加哥亞裔聯盟即有意頒獎給陳增華，都被陳增華婉拒，今年則是在決定得獎人後才通知他，讓他無法推辭。陳增華從譚繼平之子譚小平手中獲頒獎牌，並感性回顧30年來，隨著大芝加哥亞裔聯盟走過的歲月。他憶及亞裔聯盟首次在白鷹餐廳舉行活動，宣布參選聯邦參議員的保羅賽門也出席活動，後來，保羅賽門成為亞裔英雄。

他記得當時的州長湯普森宣布任命韓裔Shinae Chun為第一任州長辦公室亞裔美人聯絡人，後來Shinae Chun當上聯邦勞工部婦女局局長。他並提到譚繼平對亞美社區的付出，以及謝祖諒爭取華埠社區中心的堅持等故事。

陳增華表示，這些記憶提醒他，大芝加哥亞裔聯盟的成就不在於個人得獎，而是亞裔關注議題的推動及落實。伊州，乃至全美，亞太裔都是成長率最快的少數族裔，但在政治代表性、移民改革等任務，仍有待大家突破和解決。

晚會中還頒發模範社區服務獎，今年華裔社區得主為蕭氏法律公司負責人蕭艾萍(Anne I.Shaw)，她曾任大芝加哥亞裔律師協會會長，經常參與義務法律諮詢服務，並協助推動美容證照中文考試，蕭艾萍亦計畫角逐芝市第一區區長。

就讀Muchin預備學院12級學生梅曉鋒，多年來參與華諮處活動，擔任芝加哥馬拉松義工、投入同輩陪審團計畫等，是今年傑出青年獎華裔社區得主。馬來西亞裔社區傑出青年獎得主鄭麗霞，繼父親鄭金光及哥哥之後，也因其義工服務熱忱，獲得大芝加哥亞裔聯盟頒獎表揚。獲得馬來西亞社區模範社區服務獎的Kevin Lim長期支持社區及文化活動，總是默默付出，不求回報。

傑出青年獎越南社區得主徐明慧，為前中華會館主席徐學明之女，就讀高一，各方面表現優秀，曾為越南社區舉辦音樂會籌款，每月還到大芝加哥地區各地安養中心義演。

AACC Awards

Chinese New Year party 2/15/14

Chinese New Year Party - Feb 15, 2014

Happy New Year! MCC wishes you and your family good luck, good health, prosperity and more happiness in 2014 and in the Year of the Horse. 


Please join us on FEB 15, 2014 (Saturday) 2pm ~ 7pm to celebrate Chinese New Year with good cheer and good food. It's a CNY tradition that guests bring "gifts" for the host ("Pai Nien") to build up more good luck . So please bring either homemade (or store-bought also can lah) appetizers, snacks, kuih or dessert to share during "teh tarik" time. We will prepare dinner and Yu Sang (traditional dish that Malaysian Chinese have during CNY - bring us good luck). 

Highlight: Kids, don't miss this chance to receive Ang Pow (red pocket) from Prosperity God "Choi Sun Yeh". Start practicing your Chinese phrase "Gong Xi Fatt Chai" 


Agenda: 
2 p.m. - Arrival of guests. Social time with Teh and Snacks 
4 p.m. - Children Presentation and Ang Pow time   
4.28 p.m. (@16.28 p.m.) - Toss Yu Sang 
5 p.m. - Dinner 
6 p.m. - Lucky Draw 


Location: Barrington Square Main Hall @ 1800 Williamsburg Dr, Hoffman Estates, IL 60169 


Admission: $9.68++ per person age 12 or over (total $11.01 w/service fee per ticket).http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/557539

Important Note: Due to limited capacity of 100 person max and strict guidelines of no-cash-transaction on the premises, please RSVP online earlyhttp://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/557539.  No walk-ins available once the event is sold out. Online ticket sale will end byWednesday Feb 13, 2014 @11:59pm or earlier if the tickets are sold out. Please remember to bring your confirmation with you during check-in. 


Stay Warm and Gong Xi Fatt Chai! 


Please call Sue at 847-226-4361 or email:malaysianclubchicago@gmail.com if you have any questions.