September 5, 2012
Al-Fatihah for a Sporting Icon as well as Minister, Tan Sri Hamzah Abu Samah
Bernama reports:
Seremban: National sports idol as well as a Olympic Council of Malaysia's 
Honorary Life President Tan Sri Hamzah Abu Samah passed divided during 3.30pm today (September 4, 2012) during his house in Staffield Country Resort, Mantin, Negeri Sembilan, due to aged age.
The death of Hamzah, 88, was reliable by his second son Zulkelim, 54. Hamzah leaves at a back of wife Toh Puan Zainon Hussain, who is a sister of a country's second Prime Minister, a late Tun Abdul Razak, as well as 7 children.
Apart from being a cabinet apportion who headed various ministries until his preference to quit in Sep 1980, Hamzah was a President of a Olympic Council of Malaysia from (1976-1998); Vice-President of a Islamic Solidarity Sport Federation (1985-1994); Vice-President of a General Association of a Asian Sports Federation (1988-1998); Vice-President of a Olympic Council of Asia (1982-1986); Vice-President of a Commonwealth Games Federation (1982-1998); Honorary Life President of a Southeast Asian Games Federation given 1977.
He was additionally President of a Football Association of Malaysia (1976-1983); Honorary President of a Football Association of Malaysia given 1983; President of a Asian Football Confederation (1978-1994); Honorary President of a Asian Football Confederation given 1994; Vice-President of FIFA (1982-1990); Honorary Executive Member of FIFA given 1990; President of a Malaysian Cricket Association (1969-1990); President of a Malaysia Taekwondo Association (1987-1999).
He was a member of a International Olympic Committee from 1978 to 2004 as well as was appointed Honor! ary Memb er given 2004.
Born in Pekan, Pahang in 1924, Hamzah a Malay College (Kuala Kangsar) student who pursued a law degree during a Gray's Inn in England in 1953, proposed his domestic career as Raub Member of Parliament (1967-1978) as well as Temerloh (1978-1980).
He was Sports Minister from 1971-1973, Defence Minister (1973) as well as Minister of Law (1974). During Queen Elizabeth's revisit to Malaysia in 1972, Hamzah was a Minister assigned to accompany a Queen of England. He will laid to rest upon Sep 5, 2012.
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