KUALA LUMPUR: Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat and Universiti Teknologi Mara pro-chancellor Arshad Ayub have been awarded the title Tun in the federal birthday honours list, while health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah has been made a Tan Sri.
Maimun and Arshad head the list of 829 recipients of the awards in conjunction with the birthday of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah. Court of Appeal president Rohana Yusuf; Public Services Department director-general Mohd Khairul Adib Abd Rahman; Army chief General Zamrose Mohd Zain; Air Force chief General Ackbal Abdul Samad; former deputy inspector-general of police Mazlan Mansor; Olympic Council of Malaysia president Mohamad Norza Zakaria; and Petronas chairman Ahmad Nizam Salleh.
Among the recipients of the PJN are Auditor-General Nik Azman Nik Abdul Majid; education director-general Habibah Abdul Rahim; Sabah state secretary Safar Untong; Court of Appeal judge Ravinthran N Paramaguru; National Security Council director-general Mohd Rabin Basir; Kelantan state secretary Nazran Muhammad; and Sarawak state secretary Jaul Samion.