Kedah Honours

In conjunction with the Sultan of Kedah Tuanku Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah Sultan Badlishah's 84th birthday celebrated in a ceremony at Istana Anak Bukit in Kedah on 14 Jan 2012, the Sultan will be conferring awards to the worthy recipients. 

Some of them are listed below:


a. Darjah Seri Setia Diraja Kedah (S.S.D.K) award which carries the title "Datuk Seri".
- Datuk Seri Chor Chee Heung - Housing and Local Government Minister 
- Tan Sri Zulkifeli Mohd Zin - Armed Forces chief 


b.  Darjah Paduka Seri Setia Sultan Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah (D.H.M.S) which carries the title Datuk Paduka
- Tan Sri Dr Lim Kok Wing - Universiti Lim Kok Wing founder and president 
- Datuk Zulkifli Zainal Abidin -Army chief
- Datuk Seri Khalid Abu Bakar -  Deputy Inspector-General of Police.


c. Darjah Gemilang Seri Mahkota Kedah (D.G.M.K) which carries the title Datuk Wira.
- Datuk James Lee Yoon Wah,-  United U-Li Corporation Berhad managing director 
- Datuk Salleh Mat Rashid -  Internal Security and Public Order director 
- Datuk Seri Ahmad Hasbullah Mohd Nawawi  Army deputy chief  
- Prof Datuk Dr Khairul Annas Jusoh Special Officer to the Prime Minister  

d. Darjah Kebesaran Mahkota Kedah (D.P.M.K) which carries the title "Datuk".
- Datuk Othman Abd Razak Adviser to the Prime Minister was the sole recipient of the 

e. Forty-four people will be conferred with the Darjah Setia Diraja Kedah (D.S.D.K) award which carries the title "Datuk".

Among the D.S.D.K. recipients are:
-  Saifuddin Nasution Ismail Member of Parliament for Machang , 
- two Kedah state executive councillors, Aishah Ghazali and S.Manikumar
- Senator Boon Som a/l Inong, 
- Datuk Muhammad Ikmal Opat Abdullah a businessman and 
- Datuk Ahmad Ibrahim Kedah police chief 

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