BREAKING: President Trump gives a toast to President Xi and invites him to the White House for an official visit in September:
"Thank you again, President Xi, for this beautiful welcome... It is my honor to extend an invitation to you and Madam Peng to visit us at the White House, September 24th, and we look forward to it."
"I now like to raise a glass and propose a toast to the rich and enduring ties between the American and Chinese people. It's a very special relationship, and I want to thank you again. This has been an amazing period of time. Thank you, President Xi."
Videos of Dr Thein Swee Lay winning the โOscars of Scienceโ continue to make its rounds. She is the first Malaysian-born scientist to do so.
But her words will be remembered forever: โI hope it will send a message to young people in Malaysia and across Southeast Asia that their background does not define what they can achieve. Only their dedication and hunger to ask the next question does.โ
She is an inspiration.
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Robin Hood Governance by PMX:
No innovation. No economic breakthrough. No new ideas. @anwaribrahim@yinshaoloong@rafiziramli@MalaysiaPMO@KlutzyKucing
Just remove subsidies from the rich and call it โreformโ, as if the rich never started from the poor or middle class before.
She was born the seventh of nine children in Kuantan.
Her father was a public servant who got transferred all over the country, so she grew up moving between small towns.
Her mother never finished school. But her mother worked harder than anyone she knew, and believed education was everything.
That belief sent Swee Lay Thein to medical school at Universiti Malaya. She graduated in 1975.
Then she moved to the UK and spent the next 20 years chasing one stubborn question. Why do some patients with blood disorders suffer terribly, needing transfusions their whole lives, while others barely feel sick?
The answer was hidden in a gene. Babies are born producing a special kind of hemoglobin that protects them. Then the body flips a switch and stops making it.
Swee Lay wanted to know what controlled that switch. If you could keep it on, you could save millions of lives.
It took her decades. She travelled across the UK collecting blood samples from families. She flew to Malawi to study a single family with 270 members across seven generations. She hit dead ends. She kept going.
In 2007, she and her team found the gene. They called it BCL11A.
That discovery led to Casgevy, the first FDA-approved CRISPR therapy for sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia. A real cure. Already changing real lives around the world.
Last month, Dr Swee Lay Thein stood on a stage in Los Angeles and accepted the Breakthrough Prize, often called the Oscars of Science.
She is the first Malaysian-born scientist to ever win it.
In her speech she said, "As a child hanging out with my older brothers, playing on old railway tracks in Malaysia, I never imagined being here today."
She dedicated the moment to her mother. The woman who never finished school.
A girl from Kuantan. A mum who believed in education even though she never got one herself. A daughter whose work is now saving lives around the world.
That is a Malaysian story.
Tahniah, Dr Swee Lay Thein. We see you. We are proud. ๐ฒ๐พ
TRUMP: "If it weren't for the United States, European countries would be speaking German."
KING CHARLES: "Dare I say, Mr. President, if it weren't for us, you'd be speaking French."
King Charles indirectly COOKED Trump ๐ฅ๐คฃ
Nak sangat bagi bola dekat rakyat, jom kita bagi bola kat rakyat - TMJ
#BHsukan Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim gesa satu model baharu diperkenalkan bagi memperkasakan Liga M dalam pertemuan meja bulat bersama 13 kelab Liga Super, hari ini.
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@mnimmbmy@fnasrom Sapot takraw, basikal dan badminton lagi baik, ada juga pingat di sukan olimpik. Bolasepak buat apa, 87.925% pemain malaysia dari amerika latin dan skandal pemalsuan dokumen, abaikan bolasepak.