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KAKISENI INTERNATIONAL ARTS

FESTIVAL

KUALA LUMPUR: Kakiseni International ArtsFestival returned for its second year atPavilion, KL with a strong campaign featuringrabbits as their mascot. Rabbits were firstassociated with the festival when the creativedirection revolved around expecting the

unexpected back in May 2014. Designed by

Dave Liew, the countdown posters featuredthe rabbits escalating madcap antics as each

day drew nearer to the festival. The festival ispresented by Prudential in conjunction withits ninetieth anniversary.

The festival began on Friday, 12thSeptemberwith performances exclusively for Prudentialstaff and invited guests. The first

performance was Entomo y Otros, acontemporary Spanish dance performance byAE & EA and also first-prize winner atCertamen Internacional Burgos-New York2010, followed by Pearls for the Picking, athree-part performance by Reka Art Spaceinspired by true stories and experiences ofthe people of George Town, Penang. Itdepicts fictionalised accounts of individuals

lives in three languages: English, BahasaMalaysia and Mandarin. The finalperformance for the night was CriaturasParticulares(Special Creatures) byArgentinian clown and puppeteer, RobertoWhite. This non-verbal, masterfulperformance won the hearts of the audience.

The festival continued successfully withdoors opened to the public from thesecond day onwards. Many audiencesbegan queueing as early as two hoursbefore the performance in order to securea seat in the Black Box, which was home toseven performances for the entirety of thefestival. The last day of the festival involveda Street Parade celebrating Malaysia Dayand featured a dance performance byPrudential employees.

by Felicia Tan


3/8

MODELS BULLY KENDALL

JENNER?Earlier today, the 18-

year-old model made

her Milan debut at

the Fendi show.

According to a

tabloid report,

Kendall wasnt

exactly given the

easiest time by some

of her fellow models.

During NYFW lastweek, Jenner was

reportedly bullied by

several models who

felt it was unfair that

she was modeling in

the show. According

to an insider, the

models felt that

Jenner had beengiven a free ride due

to her notoriety on

her familys reality

TV show, Keeping Up

with the

Kardashians.

One model allegedly

put out her cigarette

in Kendalls drink.But if Kendall wasnt

welcomed by her

fellow runaway

models, she sure

didnt act like it.

Despite this, Jenner

remains firm in

pursuing her

modelling career,claiming that she

wants to be taken

seriously and be

rewarded based on

her talent.

I want to be high

fashion. I want to betaken seriously, she

told LOVE magazine.People think that

this [success] justcame to me. But itdidn't. What I havehas almost workedagainst me.

In the words of

Taylor Swift, Kendall

clearly knows how

to shake it off .

A source close to Kendall tells us exclusively,If Kendall was bullied, she certainly isnt

aware of it. Shes too busy working hard and

enjoying what shes doing.

Kendall Jenner walking down the runaway in

Fendi from head-to-toe in Milan.

MILAN Who could have predicted that

Kim Ks little sister, Kendall Jenner, would

get bullied during fashion week in Milan?

Kendall Jenner has been featured in many

fashion shows this season, the most

recent event being New York Fashion

Week which included designs by Marc

Jacobs, Diane von Furstenburg, Donna

Karan and Tommy Hilfiger.

She even went so

far as to ban hersister, Kim

Kardashian, from

attending any of

her fashion

shows in order to

create a

distinction

between her

work and her

personal life. She

revealed her

thoughts on how

being affiliated

with her family

and their reality

TV show as well

as subsequent

spin-offs has

negativelyimpacted her

modelling career.

However, Kim

Kardashian

remains

supportive of her

sisters wishes.

by Nurul Aisyah Halmi


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However, Soong is still searching forhis first international senior title. Hestates that the upcoming year will bevery important as the Olympic Gamesqualifying period begins in May 2015and they really need to step up theirgame. He hopes to be able to rise tothe occasion in his next tournament,the Perak Open.

The Perak Open is the first leg of theNational circuit of this year. Due toscheduling issues, the BadmintonAssociation of Malaysia (BAM) wereunable to find a more suitable time tostage their premier local tournament.This tournament is mandatory for allnational players and is open to allaspiring state and junior players.Therefore, it is an ideal platform forrelative unknowns to demonstratetheir talents.

GOING FOR THE GOLD

KUALA LUMPUR Soong Joo Ven, a nineteen-year-old mens singles player is looking to makea significant breakthrough at the Perak Open,which will be held in Ipoh from the 7th to 12thOctober 2014.

Soong recently competed in the IndonesianMasters in Palembang, losing to the fourth seedAnand Pawar from India in the third round.Soong has in fact, not won a single match to anyof the seeded players in all of the internationaltournaments this year. It has been a rough yearfor the young player as it marks his first year inthe senior ranks.

Soong confided that there are improvements tobe made as he is still unable to defeat theseeded players. Occasionally, he is able to take agood lead but fails to finish them off. He admitsthat he needs to overcome this barrier.

Our coach (Hendrawan) is reallypushing us hard in training. Themain focus is to build up our physicalcondition. Im confident that

favourable results will come...eventually, said Soong.

Soong is ranked world No. 188 and isone of the back-players under the careof Hendrawan, alongside Soo Teck Zhi,Tan Kian Ming, Chong Yee Han,

Iskandar Zulkarnain Zainuddin, GohSoon Huat, Goh Giap Chin, Cheam JuneWei and Mohd Azriyn Ayub. Thepressure is on as one out of the nine isexpected to qualify for the 2016Summer Olympics hosted in Rio deJaneiro.

by Tey Yoke Jia


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LI NA RETIRES

BEIJING - Chinese athlete Li Na, Asias only grandslam singles champion, announced herretirement due to long-term knee injuries.Li Na stated that her troublesome knees plaguedher throughout her career and prevented herfrom ever recovering to full fitness.

She mentioned that winning seven matches in arow in the Australian heat was less difficult thenmaking the decision to hang up her racquet,according to a post she made on her Facebookpage.

Her chronic injuries would never again allow herto be the tennis player that she could be and it

took her several agonizing months to make thedecision. She believes that retiring from tennis isthe right decision for her and her family.

Big Sister Na and Golden Flower, as she is

known in China, won the 2011 French Open andthe 2014 Australian Open.

Her knees were getting increasingly worse to the

point where she was forced to pull out from thisyears U.S Open. By then, she had already beenranked number two in the world rankings thus,prompting speculation her stunning career wascoming to an end.

"After four kneesurgeries and hundredsof shots injected into myknee weekly to alleviateswelling and pain, mybody is begging me tostop the pounding.

Li Na acknowledged that most

people in the tennis world knew hercareer had been marked by herinjured right knee. The black bracethat she frequently wore over iteventually become a birth mark.

She also noted that her kneeproblems had become a persistentissue in her life.

A flood of tributes followed herannouncement, including officialsfrom the Chinese Tennis Associationwhich acknowledged hercontribution to tennis and hercountry.

"Most people in the tennis

world know that my career

has been marked by my

troubled right knee. The

black brace I wear over it

when I step on the court has

become my tennis birth

mark. And while the brace

completes my tennis look,

the knee problems have attimes overtaken my life.

by Tey Yoke Jia


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PRINCE HARRY CROWNED

PRESIDENT

LONDON - From prince to president?

Prince Harry is moving up in theworld. Only a year left until the World

Cup and the England Rugby 2015 has

appointed Prince Harry as their

honorary president.

The prince is a huge fan of rugby and

he participated in a photo call with

former World Cup-winning fly-half

Jonny Wilkinson at Rugby School, thebirthplace of the sport, to promote

next years tournament.

Prince Harry recently played

wheelchair rugby alongside Zara

Philips at the Invictus Games.

England Rugby 2015 chief executive

Debbie Jevans spoke highly of his[Prince Harrys] appointment.

Prince Harry, the honorary president of the

England Rugby 2015, holding the ball for

World Cup ambassador Jonny Wilkinson

during a photo call at the Rugby School

The event will take place at thirteen venuesacross England and in Cardiff from September18 to October 31, 2015.

Tickets available until 18:00 BST September

29, 2014.

Head over to http://www.rfu.com/for moreinformation.

With one year to go to the

tournament, we are delighted to

announce that Prince Harry has agreed

to be our honorary president. The

prince is a great rugby fan and recently

inspired us all with the Invictus Games.

We have no doubt that he will help us

achieve our aim of staging atournament that reaches out to new

and existing rugby fans.

- Debbie Jevans, Chief Executive of

England Rugby 2015

Rugby School was the place where

in 1823, according to folklore,William Webb Ellis invented the

sport by picking up a football and

running with it in his hands. A

plaque commemorating the event

was erected in the school in 1900

and the trophy awarded to the

champions of the Rugby World Cup

is named the Webb Ellis Cup.

by Nurul Aisyah Halmi
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7/8

YAHOO THREATENED WITH FINES

WASHINGTON: One of the most famoussearch engines, Yahoo, was oncethreatened with fines worthUS$250,000 (MYR808,000) a day if itfailed to comply with a secretsurveillance programme that forced itto hand over user data in the name ofnational security, as detailed in courtdocuments which were made public inan uncommon ruling by a secretivecourt panel.

The documents underscore how we

had to fight every step of the way to

challenge the US governmentssurveillance efforts, stated Yahoo

general counsel Ron Bell in a blog postthat will undoubtedly raise concernsregarding privacy. The documentsrevealed information on the PRISMsnooping programme discovered inleaked files from former NationalSecurity Agency contractor, Edward

Snowden.

The programme enabled USintelligence services to gather colossalamounts of data from leading Internetfirms including Google. Officials havestated that the programme concludedin 2011.

The documents containing 1,500 pageswere ordered released by the ForeignIntelligence Surveillance Court in the case

dating from 2007 and according to astatement made by Bell in the same year,the US government amended a key law to

demand user information from onlineservices.

Bell declared that they refused to comply

with what [they] viewed as unconstitutionaland overbroad surveillance, thus their

challenge of the US governments authority.

However, Yahoos court challenge failed and

it was compelled to hand over the user datademanded by the government.

At one point, the USgovernment threatened theimposition of US$250,000 infines per day if we refused tocomply, Bell revealed.

We consider this an important

win for transparency and hopethat these records help promoteinformed discussion about the

relationship between privacy,due process, and intelligencegathering, stated Bell.

The aftermath of the infamous Snowdenleaks has since motivated Yahoo as well asseveral others to make public courtdocuments such as these to prove theywere forced to comply with governmentrequests. It is their attempt to demonstratethe struggles and efforts made to protecttheir users rather than giving in to thegovernments demands.

The reveal of these court dockets to thepublic is extremely rare, Bell said, adding

that the company was concentrating onmaking the 1,500 pages publicly available

online.

But he clarified that despite the

declassification and release, portions ofthe documents remain sealed andclassified to this day, unknown even to ourteam.

by Felicia Tan


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BILLIONAIRE EXPANDS FLEET

Stephen met with the CEO of Rolls-Royce, Torsten Mueller-Oetvoes, andfinalised the deal on Tuesday at thecompanys Goodwood factory in

England. Rolls-Royce revealed thattwo of the cars purchased by thebillionaire will be the most expensivePhantoms ever crafted due to thegold-plated accents fitted on theinterior and exterior of thePhantoms.

Hungs company, Louis XIII Holdings

agreed that they would pay theremaining $15 million when the carsare delivered in 2016, while a $2million deposit was made and theremaining $3 million is to be paid atthe end of the year.

ENGLAND: Stephen Hung, a HongKong tycoon based in Macau,recently purchased 30 Rolls-Roycesfor his new casino resort, the LouisXIII named after the former Kingof France whom Hung thinkshighly of. The whooping purchaseof the thirty Rolls-Royce Phantomsset the successful entrepreneurback USD20 million (MYR64.657million). Hung stated that he woulduse these luxurious fleet of cars tochauffer his guests as he believesthat his customers deserve nothingbut the best.

We at Rolls-RoyceMotor Cars aredelighted andhonoured that MrHung hascommissioned Rolls-

Royce to provide thelargest single order ofPhantoms in history.

by Praveen Varma

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