Jul
26
    
Posted (admin) in Beijing Daily, International, Career on July-26-2008

新浪音乐讯 “2008 MTV亚洲大奖”今年载誉归来!颁奖典礼不但比以往更盛大,而且比以往举办得更有声有色。全亚洲最大型的音乐盛事将于8月2日在云顶娱乐城的云星剧场举 行,包括刘德华、陈奕迅、李宇春、蔡依林、S.H.E、林俊杰、孙燕姿、容祖儿、罗志祥、五月天等15位华语歌手在内的超过50位来自亚洲各地区及国际的 歌手和乐队会角逐多个荣誉奖项。
典礼当晚将颁发16个奖项,其中10个“最受欢迎歌手奖”会由MTV电视观众投票选出。各项“最受欢迎歌手 奖”提名名单包括:对亚洲区音乐界具影响力的歌手和乐队,以及亚洲最受欢迎的国际歌手和乐队。为表扬重要的音乐达人和潮流歌手在时装、音乐、音乐录像带及 现场演出方面的成就,MTV音乐电视网亚洲区将颁发以下6个奖项,包括:“最佳音乐录像带歌手奖”、“最具突破歌手奖”、“最具创意歌手奖”、“最佳组合 歌手奖”、“最具舞台魅力歌手奖”及“edc最具风格歌手奖”。
今年的“中国内地最受欢迎歌手奖”将由人气爆棚的李宇春、趣怪搞笑的花儿乐队以及汪峰、杨坤两位实力老将共同角逐,四人虽然风格完全不同,但各自都有独具一格的音乐魅力,激烈的竞争在所难免!
香港天王级巨星刘德华、实力派歌手陈奕迅及古巨基、香港乐坛天后容祖儿于今年再次获提名角逐“香港最受欢迎歌手奖”。他们都于各大颁奖典礼获奖无数,究竟今年谁会拿走这个奖项呢?
大热的新加坡女歌手孙燕姿及马来西亚女歌手Dato’ Siti Nurhaliza分别再次获提名角逐“新加坡最受欢迎歌手奖”及“马来西亚最受欢迎歌手奖”。其它获提名角逐“新加坡最受欢迎歌手奖”的歌手包括:摇滚 独立乐队Electrico、唱作女歌手蔡健雅及男歌手林俊杰;而获提名角逐“马来西亚最受欢迎歌手奖”的歌手则包括Faizal Tahir、张栋梁及Pop Shuvit。各歌手及乐队的歌迷人数众多,相信竞争将非常激烈。
“亚洲最受欢迎国际歌手奖”的提名名单包括:Punk界摇滚小天后Avril Lavigne、迷人歌后Fergie、摇滚组合Linkin Park及流行曲音乐王子Justin Timberlake

source: Beijing Daily


 
Jul
25
    
Posted (admin) in Bernama, Career on July-25-2008

 

PerdanaMenteri Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi menyampaikan AnugerahKecemerlangan Balai Ikhtisas Malaysia(BIM) 2008 kategori ArtisProfesional kepada Datuk Siti Nurhaliza Tarudin pada Majlis Makan MalamBIM di Kuala Lumpur, malam tadi. Turut hadir Presiden BIM Isaac SunderRajan (kiri).

Dalamucapannya Perdana Menteri menyeru golongan profesional di negara iniuntuk memberi nilai tambah kepada pembangunan negara denganmenyumbangkan idea, kepakaran dan pengalaman bagi meningkatkan lagipembangunan masa hadapan Malaysia.

” Pembangunan masa hadapankita akan bergantung kepada modal insan dan kerana itu, golonganprofesional perlu memberi nilai timbah kepada apa sahaja perkhidmatandan produk yang kita hasilkan. Kita kena tingkatkan apa yang kita adasekarang dan inilah gunanya golongan profesional.

“Mereka boleh membantu dalam memacu negara ke hadapan. Dengan bantuankepakaran mereka, kita boleh atasi halangan. Juga penting sistempendidikan kita terutama universiti mengeluarkan pelajarpelajar yangdiperlukan sektor swasta. Universiti mesti bekerjasama dengan sektorswasta bagi memastikan pelajar pelajar kita setanding dengan keperluansektor swasta,” katanya.-

sumber: BERNAMA


 
Jul
25
    
Posted (admin) in berita harian online, Career on July-25-2008

Oleh Azman Zakaria azmanz@bharian.com.my

TINGKAT KUALITI: Abdullah berbual dengan penerima anugerah kecemerlangan Balai Iktisas Malaysia di Kuala Lumpur, malam tadi.

Pembangunan modal insan pelajar mesti diberi perhatian

KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi mahu kumpulan profesional sebagai tenaga kerja yang penting di negara ini sentiasa menambah nilai dan meningkatkan pencapaian bagi membantu menjayakan pembangunan negara.

Perdana Menteri berkata, selama ini golongan berkenaan memberi sumbangan bermakna untuk Malaysia dan rakyatnya menikmati pelbagai program pembangunan berterusan.

“Kumpulan profesional penting dalam masyarakat… kumpulan yang bertanggungjawab bukan saja mengharumkan nama negara, malah menyumbang kepada pembangunan dan kesejahteraan.

“Kita perlu berusaha lebih gigih mencapai kualiti lebih tinggi supaya kemajuan dicapai berterusan dalam usaha menjadikan negara sentiasa makmur dan terus cemerlang,” katanya pada majlis ‘Professional Evening with Our Patron’, anjuran Balai Ikhtisas Malaysia (BIM), di sini malam tadi. Turut hadir isterinya, Datin Seri Jeanne Abdullah.

Sehubungan itu, Abdullah yang juga penaung BIM, berkata pembangunan modal insan bermula dari peringkat sekolah mesti diberikan penekanan supaya pelajar yang akhirnya menamatkan pengajian di universiti mampu menambah nilai kepada setiap perkhidmatan atau produk, seterusnya melahirkan lebih ramai profesional.

Pada majlis itu, beliau menyampaikan anugerah kecemerlangan BIM 2008 kepada Tan Sri Dr Yahya Awang bagi kategori Perubatan dan Penjagaan Kesihatan, Hijjas Kasturi (Kejuruteraan, Pembinaan dan Hartanah), Tan Sri Prof Emeritus Dr Ong Soon Hock (Sains Tulen dan Gunaan), Tan Sri Mohd Hassan Marican (Perakaunan, Perniagaan dan Perdagangan), Datuk Siti Nurhaliza Tarudin (Artis Profesional Malaysia), Datuk Seri Md Isahak Md Yusuf (Anugerah khas Presiden) dan Ungku Anna Ungku Mohamed (Anugerah Penghargaan Presiden).

sumber: Berita Harian online


 
Jul
24
    
Posted (admin) in the star online, Career on July-24-2008

Thursday July 24, 2008

KUALA LUMPUR: Professionals have been urged to work harder and continue to help enhance human capital for the country’s future development.

In stating this, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said professionals are capable of adding value to services and products and their expertise would help the country develop further and improve the quality of life.

“Professionals represent an important group in society as they are not only responsible to thrust Malaysia’s name in the global front, but to also contribute to the country’s development.

Abdullah presenting an award to Siti Nurhaliza in Kuala Lumpur Wednesday night as BIM president Isacc Sunder Rajan looks on.

“Our future progress depends on human capital development and thus it must be of high value and quality. We must continue to improve and professionals can help add value to our services and products,” he said last night at a dinner organised by Balai Ikhtisas Malaysia (BIM) of which Abdullah is a patron.

Abdullah also said it was important to improve the quality of the education system and for universities to work with the private sector so that graduates had the necessary requirements for the working world.

“We will also rope in professionals to contribute their expertise and ideas to increase the quality of human capital and for the country to progress further,” he added.

Abdullah also gave out BIM awards to outstanding professionals in recognition of their contributions to the country. Recipients included Petronas president and chief executive officer Tan Sri Mohd Hassan Marican and popular singer Datuk Siti Nurhaliza Tarudin.

source: the star online


 
Jul
23
    
Posted (admin) in Bernama, Career on July-23-2008


PUTRAJAYA, July 23 (Bernama) — The 2nd National Islamic Media Awards (AMIN) to be presented Thursday night will see the introduction of two new categories; Best Drama Production and Best Website.

Islamic Development Department (Jakim) director-general Datuk Wan Mohamad Sheikh Abdul Aziz said the new categories were introduced to recognise their role in the development of Muslims.

“Lucky visitors will return home with two flight tickets to perform the umrah,” he told a press conference here today.

The awards presentation at Putrajaya International Convention Centre (PICC) will be carried live by RTM 1 and Astro’s Oasis Channel.

The main award “Anugerah Perdana Media Islam Negara” will be presented by Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

The audience will be entertained to songs by popular artistes including Rabbani, Datuk Siti Nurhaliza, Aris Ariwatan and Siti Fairus.

Wan Mohamad also said the Heads of Departments and Islamic Affairs Councils Conference recently decided to hold a convention for Muslim converts.

The convention to be held on Aug 9 at the Kuala Lumpur Federal Territory Mosque will be opened by the Prime Minister’s wife Datin Seri Jeanne Abdullah.

A special award will also be presented at the convention.

He said the conference in Kuantan also decided that marriage applications made in all the states will have to be approved in 24 hours.

– BERNAMA


 
Jul
18
    
Posted (admin) in Event, Sitizone, Career on July-18-2008

Date: Thursday, July 24, 2008 At 09:00 PM

Duration: 2 Hours

 

Malam pengiktirafan Anugerah Media Islam Negara (AMIN)
Dewan Merdeka, Pusat Dagangan Dunia Putra, Kuala Lumpur
RTM1
9.00 malam

source: sitizone.com


 
Jul
16
    
Posted (admin) in Family, Sitizone, Career on July-16-2008

Written by Siti Nurhaliza
Tuesday, 15 July 2008
Assalammualaikum dan salam sejahtera buat semua. Harapan Siti agar semuanya sihat seperti biasa dan berada dalam keadaan yang baik-baik belaka.

Nampaknya agak lama juga Siti tak menulis di sini tetapi tidak mengapalah kerana Siti sentiasa mengikuti perkembangan anda di sini termasuklah permintaan anda untuk tidak memaparkan message board kepada bukan ahli di sini buat sementara waktu.

Apa pun yang anda rancangkan, yang anda fikirkan dan anda lakukan, Siti di sini sentiasa menyokong kerana laman ini adalah tempat kita dan semestinya Siti akan selalu mendengar apa jua permintaan anda kerana di sinilah kita dipertemukan dan persaudaraan itu terjalin.

Mungkin karier Siti senyap seketika tetapi bukan bermakna goyang kaki kerana banyak perkara sedang bergerak. Siti juga gembira kerana SNP sudah mengeluarkan single Sairah berjudul Hero Wayang yang sudahpun dimainkan di radio, bakal menyusul nanti single Saida dan seterusnya album Coda. Segalanya akan berlaku tidak lama lagi dan harapan Siti agar anda semua menyokong artis2 SNP yang lain kerana ini adalah usaha Siti untuk memberikan sesuatu kepada industri muzik kita.

Siti juga sudah tidak sabar melaksanakan pelbagai rancangan yang terdapat dalam agenda SNP, bagi Siti semua ini berkaitan dengan sokongan anda selama ini. Semangat anda membuatkan SIti tidak mudah mengalah untuk meneruskan sesuatu yang boleh dikongsi bersama anda. Doakan agar apa jua yang kami akan jayakan akan mendapat keberkatanNya dan juga sokongan and serta pihak-pihak lain juga.

Setakat ini buat masa ini.Nantikan kahabar Siti lagi.

Salam mesra buat semua, Siti Nurhaliza.

sumber:sitizone.com


 
Jul
09
    
Posted (admin) in Datuk K, berita harian online, Career on July-9-2008

 Oleh Zubir Mohd Yunus
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Keluarga bahagia menikmati minum petang berhampiran kolam ikan.
BUKANNYA mudah untuk memujuk Datuk Seri Khalid Mohamad Jiwa, suami penyanyi kesayangan ramai, Datin Seri Siti Nurhaliza Tarudin sebelum dia memberikan lampu hijau kepada penulis bersama jurugambar, Hasriyashah Sabudin merakam kehidupan santai mereka di banglo mewah yang terletak di Bukit Antarabangsa, Kuala Lumpur kerana bimbang pendedahan itu bakal mengundang perspektif negatif orang ramai.

Namun, selepas beberapa kali dipujuk, Khalid yang sinonim dengan gelaran Datuk K, akhirnya akur selepas diberitahu, fotografi di banglo bernilai lebih RM6 juta itu adalah untuk paparan eksklusif edisi pertama wajah baru Bintang Popular yang bermula minggu ini. Pastinya peminat yang mengetahui portfolio Khalid sebagai tokoh korporat terkenal dan kesenangan yang diraih Siti sepanjang lebih 10 tahun bergelar anak seni, gaya hidup mewah dinikmati mereka hari ini, tentunya berbaloi.

Ketika kunjungan Bintang Popular ke banglo yang masih di peringkat pengubahsuaian pada bahagian laman dan belakang kediaman itu, hanya anak bongsu Khalid, Mohamed Aazief, 10, berada bersamanya, manakala tiga anaknya yang lain - Mohamed Anas, 21, Mohamed Adib, 18 dan Mohamed Asyraf, 16 tidak menetap di situ kerana masih menuntut di universiti luar negara dan kolej tempatan.

Pada 21 Ogos ini, genaplah dua tahun usia perkahwinan Siti bersama Khalid.
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Siti Aazief dan Khalid di hadapan banglo mereka.
Sebaik bergelar suami isteri, pasangan bahagia itu menetap di sebuah penthouse di Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur dan hanya kira-kira tiga bulan lalu Khalid membawa Siti berpindah ke banglo yang mempunyai 11 bilik tidur, perpustakaan, gimnasium dan surau yang boleh menempatkan kira-kira 50 jemaah pada satu masa itu.

Selepas saya mendirikan rumah tangga bersama Siti, hanya bekas isteri (Tengku Zawyah Tengku Izham), tinggal di sini (banglo) bersama anak-anak.

Apabila mereka melanjutkan pelajaran di universiti dan kolej, dia (bekas isteri) menyatakan hasratnya untuk berpindah ke rumah lain. Kini, hanya anak yang bongsu, Aazief tinggal berselang seli bersama saya dan bekas isteri. “Daripada banglo ini dibiarkan kosong, saya membawa ayah dan ibu yang sebelum ini menetap di kampung untuk tinggal bersama, lagipun ayah tidak begitu sihat. Pastinya saya yang membawa Siti tinggal di banglo ini. Tambahan pula jadual Siti tidak lagi padat seperti dulu, justeru dia mempunyai banyak masa di rumah, bolehlah dia bersama ibu menjaga ayah.
Photobucket Tiga beranak selesa merehatkan diri di ruang tamu. “
Pun begitu, saya dan Siti bukannya sepenuh masa tinggal di banglo ini kerana jika ada kelapangan, terutama pada hujung minggu, kami tetap menjenguk penthouse di Ampang itu,” kata Datuk K sambil menikmati minum petang di tepi kolam ikannya ditemani isteri tersayang dan Aazief. Dalam masa sama, terdengar cakap-cakap nakal apabila Siti berpindah ke banglo berkenaan, apa komen Siti? “Siti hanya mengikut kehendak suami. Lagipun Siti selesa tinggal bersama mentua. Namun, Siti tidak berasa kecil hati apabila orang cakap yang bukan-bukan. Mereka tidak tahu keadaan sebenar. Sekalipun Siti dan suami tinggal sebumbung bersama mentua, reka bentuk banglo ini dibina dengan ruang tersendiri.

Sebelah kiri banglo didiami mentua, manakala bahagian yang satu lagi untuk Siti, suami dan anak-anak. Pun begitu, Siti dan ibu mentua masih berkongsi dapur, sekali gus berkongsi cerita, Siti tak pernah rasa sunyi,” kata Siti yang dilihat begitu manja bersama Aazief ketika mereka bermain piano. Sudah dua tahun melayari alam berumah tangga, tidakkah Siti berasa sunyi tanpa tangisan si kecil? “Siti dan suami sudah berusaha, tapi nampaknya belum ada rezeki.

Sementara masih berdua ni, bolehlah honeymoon lagi,” kata Siti berseloroh. Dia akan bercuti bersama Khalid dan anak-anak di Bali, Indonesia pertengahan Julai ini. Mengenai perkembangan karier nyanyian, tambah Siti, dia akan muncul bersama album tradisional sebelum penghujung tahun ini dan pada masa sama masih mempromosi album terbarunya, Hadiah Daripada Hati. Siti dan Khalid juga merancang mengerjakan umrah pada awal Ramadan akan datang.

sumber: berita harian


 
Jul
06
    
Posted (admin) in International, Indonesia on July-6-2008
 
 
 Indonesian television is not generally something that particularly interests me. However there is one show that has stirred up a hornet’s nest of controversy of late. I refer, of course, to Republik Mimpi (Dream Republic) which has had the establishment’s well-groomed moustaches bristling with indignation on more than a few occasions over the last few years.

My low tolerance threshold for the local TV shows has meant I can only ever recall seeing the show once as broadcast live. However, the very super YouTube hosts a number of clips from the show which I have been free to download now that the site has once again been unblocked after the Fitna debacle.

Republik Mimpi’s satirical content would have been unthinkable during the New Order’s brutal and censorious regime, and it’s a mark of how Indonesia has changed during the last decade that the show has managed to establish itself and continues to puncture the puffed-up and pusillanimous on a weekly basis.

Indonesia may still be corrupt and riddled with cant and sleaze, but at least you can say as much publicly these days. In fact, in terms of freedom of speech and of the press, Indonesia has leapfrogged many of its near neighbors (read: Malaysia).

It is now legally possible to criticize the country’s elite on TV and in print (although, in practice, journalists can still get their heads kicked in for their pains).

Republik Mimpi used to be broadcast on MetroTV, but was moved to TV One in February because Metro apparently found it too hot to handle.

Politicians have lambasted the show for flouting traditional Indonesian respect for authority. The Constitutional Court has, however, dismissed such cynically self-serving arguments and has removed articles that make it a crime to insult senior figures from the statute books. Bravo and hurrah, I say. Blind respect for authority will get (has got) the country precisely nowhere.

Politicians are not there to be respected; they are to be questioned, hard, and should be able to justify their dealings. Perhaps a healthy mistrust of politicians is the essence of democracy. We should never forget politicians work for us rather than vice versa. There’s no need to feel bad for them, they get their 30 pieces of silver for their troubles.

The increase in press freedom and the freedom to criticize the government is probably the best thing to emerge from this country’s politics during this reform decade. This has to be balanced against a decrease in religious freedom, though, and I suspect it won’t be long before the powers that be start to censure Republik Mimpi on religious grounds, just as back in the 12th century, Chaucer’s satirical portraits were attacked for being unchristian and disrespectful.

Satire is a powerful tool and runs through literature from ancient Greece through Chaucer and Mark Twain, right up to current favorites such as The Simpsons or the online spoof newspaper The Onion. Wikipedia defines satire as a device by which, “Human vices, follies and abuses are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque, irony or other methods, ideally with the intent of bringing improvement”. Literary critic Northrop Frye said, “In satire, irony is militant.”

Republik Mimpi has played its own small part in bringing improvements to the country by showing Indonesians the prevailing cultural imperative of deference to authority is not necessarily always good in the long term. It has encouraged people to express their too-often-repressed disapproval of those who hold power.

Anyway, I checked out the show on YouTube and a few chuckles managed to make their way through the barrier of my woefully mediocre Bahasa. In the show SBY, Yusuf Kalla, Gus Dur, Megawati et al, are impersonated by actors and grilled by the studio audience over the issues of the day. The RM crew dispenses one-liners galore in between musical interludes and chantings of the catchphrase “BBM” (Baru Bisa Mimpi).

At one point, the actor playing Yusuf Kalla revealed he had attended a celebrity movie event with the real Yusuf Kalla, which caused much confusion and amusement.

I also watched as the show’s cast joined knee-jerk protests outside the Malaysian Embassy, helping to diffuse the nationalist tension down there through humor and their threats to boycott the music of popular Malaysian songstress Siti Nurhaliza. Long may there be dreamers in this country.

–Simon Pitchforth

source: the jakarta post


 
Jun
30
    
Posted (admin) in mtv, The New Straits Times, Career on June-30-2008


By : SHARIFAH ARFAH

2008/06/29

Radio-friendly Daughtry is nominated in the Breakthrough Artiste category.
Radio-friendly Daughtry is nominated in the Breakthrough Artiste category.

Over 50 local and international artistes will be honoured at the MTV Asia Awards event to be held in the highlands. SHARIFAH ARFAH writes.

Once again, Siti Nurhaliza is nominated in the Favourite Artist Malaysia category.
Once again, Siti Nurhaliza is nominated in the Favourite Artist Malaysia category.

THE MTV Asia Awards will be held at the Arena of Stars in Genting Highlands on Aug 2. More than 50 local and international nominees are being honoured at Asia’s biggest pan-regional music event. There will be 16 categories — 10 of which is to be determined by MTV viewers’ votes in the Favourite Artistes category and six honorary awards for international artistes.

Nominees for the Favourite Artiste categories consist of the movers and shakers in the local music industry as well as the most popular international artistes in Asia.

Honorary awards will be presented by MTV Asia in recognition of key industry figures and trendsetters for fashion, music, video and live performances, to how the artistes market themselves.

For the regional categories, Asia’s hot favourites Stefanie Sun (Singapore) and Datuk Siti Nurhaliza (Malaysia) have been nominated yet again.
The excitement will to build as performers and awards presenters are announced in the coming weeks, culminating in a spectacular night where winners will be announced before to a live audience and televised to millions of homes in Asia.

Leading up to the awards, there will be fabulous contests and events planned around the show.

Vote for your favourite artiste and international artiste online or over your mobiles and you (and a friend) could win an all-expense paid trip to the MTV Asia Awards 2008 in Genting Highlands.

Go to the official website at www.mtvasiawards.com or the WAP site at wap.mtvasia.com/maa to vote.

Voters can also SMS their choice to 33776 (for Malaysian voters only) following the format MAA “Artist code” (available on the website).

A new exciting dimension of the awards will be the “So You Wanna Be A Presenter” contest.

Send in a video of how your local nominees should be presented at the MTV Asia Awards 2008 to the official website by July 13. The wackiest video from each market will be aired live at the awards show and the ultimate video will win an all-expense paid VIP trip for two to the awards.

Other exciting activities in the coming weeks are the Mosh-Pit auditions, as well as a roadshow.

The audition will be held at Zouk in Kuala Lumpur on July 19 from 6 to 9pm, while the roadshow will be held at Cineleisure Damansara on July 19-20, from noon onwards.

The latest updates on the MTV Asia Awards 2008 can be found on the official website at www.mtvasiaawards.com and WAP site at wap.mtvasia.com/maa.

Fans can also visit the official website for more information on awards-related contests and events.

Official partner sponsors for the MTV Asia Awards 2008 are edc by Esprit, Tourism Malaysia and Genting - City of Entertainment. The MTV Asia Awards 2008 is unleashed in Malaysia by Xpax.

source: the new straits times