Varsity pays tribute to two icons


By CY LEE

Sharifah watering the newly planted rain tree near the Tun Tan Siew Sin Building in TAR UC, Setapak. Looking on are (from left) Prof Lee, Tunku Muinuddin and Liow. — ONG SOON HIN/The Star

AN ICONIC moment in the history of Tunku Abdul Rahman University College (TAR UC) was replayed when family members of the late Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj and Tun Tan Siew Sin planted two trees.

Over 40 years earlier, Malaysia’s founding father had planted a tree on the campus of TAR UC in Setapak, Kuala Lumpur, as a symbolic gesture.

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