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The Malay Mail pays tribute to Chua Boon Huat

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A life saved, another dies

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UPDATE (Aug 2, 11.25am) : Suicide wannabe to get psychiatric help - again, as published in The Malay Mail today . ---- It was an evening I will never forget. It was an evening (July 31) where I traded my journalistic skills to play negotiator as a man was about to jump off from the 15th floor of a condominium block in Petaling Jaya. It was where I managed to calm the man and myself down and after an hour long conversation, I quickly pulled him off the ledge before he was arrested by cops. Read about the drama in The Malay Mail today. Several hours later, I received news about the tragic death national hockey player Chua Boon Huat ( pic ). The man needs no introduction as he is a household name in the country. Boon Huat died after his car crashed into a lorry along the LDP, as reported here . This incident comes hardly four days after the nation lost another athlete, basketball star Jacky Ng who died on Sunday. HD says: A day filled with mixed emotions. Rest in p...