SEVENTY-ONE people will receive the Datukship for the first time during the Yang di-Pertua Negri Tun Abdul Rahman Abbas 78th birthday celebration today.
Among them are Penang Island City Council secretary Ang Aing Thye, Penang Bishop Sebastian Francis, Securities Commission deputy chief executive Ahmad Fairuz Zainol Abidin, state Health Department deputydirector Dr Hassan Merican Omar Naina Merican, Society of Disabled Persons Penang president Teh Lay Kuan, Penang Hospital consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr Lai Fong Hwa and Rose Charities Malaysia president Lawrence Cheah Seong Paik.