RHB Banking Group joins in search for Asmawi

KUALA LUMPUR, March 15, 2008:The RHB Banking Group has joined in the search for missing child Muhammad Asmawi Jalaludin, 11. The Banking Group has begun distributing leaflets of the missing child through its extensive network of branches throughout Peninsular Malaysia.

Further to this initiative, today, staff of the RHB Banking Group came together to play their part by distributing posters and leaflets to members of the public at the Mid Valley Mega Mall in the hope that anyone who has information on Asmawi’s whereabouts will come forward to assist the police in their search.

The effort to locate the missing boy has been initiated as part of the RHB Banking Group’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme Missing Children – Reuniting Families which was launched in July 2007 in collaboration with Polis DiRaja Malaysia.

Chairman of RHB Bank and Director of RHB Capital Bhd Datuk Azlan Zainol, in expressing the banking group’s concern over the safety of Asmawi, said every effort would be made to disseminate details of the missing child in the hope that she would be found and reunited with her family as quickly as possible.

Eleven-year-old Asmawi was last seen on Sunday at the Mid Valley Mega Mall.

This will be the fourth time that the RHB Banking Group is assisting in the search for a missing child. Shortly after the launch of the CSR programme, the Banking Group assisted in the search for a missing teenage girl and she was subsequently reunited with her family. The Group also assisted in cases of Nurin Jazlin and yet-to-be found Sharlinie.

Issued by Group Corporate Communications, RHB Capital Bhd. For more information, please call Mastura Adnan at 012-3162960/92802288 or Adeline Ong at 012-8833345/03- 92802552