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His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam (L) and Chancellor of UBD, UBD Pro-Chancellor HRH Prince (Dr) Haji Al-Muhtadee Billah, the Crown Prince and Senior Minister at the Prime Minister’s Office (2nd L) and HRH Princess Sarah (R) during the 23rd UBD Convocation. Picture: Saifulizam of The Brunei Times. Click image to read His Majesty’s Titah

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Dato’ Abdullah Sani Omar, High Commissioner of Malaysia to Brunei Darussalam, cutting cake with Minister of Education at Malaysia National Day celebration at ICC last Tuesday. Photo by Dean Kassim, Borneo Bulletin

A reception dinner was held to commemorate the 54th National Day of Malaysia yesterday at a ceremony held at the International Convention Centre, Berakas.

The guest of honour at the event was Pehin Orang Kaya Seri Kerna Dato Seri Setia Dr Haji Awang Abu Bakar bin Haji Apong and Datin Paduka Dyg Hjh Jahrah binti Hj Mohamad.

The High Commissioner of Malaysia to Brunei Darussalam, Dato’ Abdullah Sani Omar, said in his welcoming remarks that the recent visit by the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dato’ Seri Mohd Najib Tun Abdul Razak reflects the commitment and determination towards strengthening bilateral ties between both countries. Malaysia’s National Day falls on August 31 but the celebration in Brunei was postponed till last night due to the Hari Raya Aidilfitri celebrations.

The highlight of the event was a cake cutting ceremony by the guest of honour with Dato’ Abdullah Sani as well as the Asean High Commissioners to Brunei. Guests were entertained with cultural performances by the Malaysian community. Several Malaysia companies based in Brunei also set up booths during the event to promote their products. Text by Aziz Idris, Borneo Bulletin.

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His Majesty’s Titah during the 6th National Youth Day – “The theme entails youths to be more creative and innovative and encourages to explore all sorts of fields and keep themselves up-to-date with the development. We are pleased to note that some of the talented youths are engaged in business or entrepreneurship. My government with the cooperation of the private sector would provide a more conducive environment to support and provide assistance through capacity building, provision of infrastructure and opening up of market for youths so that they could market their products locally and abroad. I believe every achievement by our youth entrepreneurs will become a catalyst and encourage others to follow suit and engage in the world of entrepreneurship.

This is the way to widen the creative industry, which involves many parties besides the strong determination from the entrepreneurs themselves. The involvement includes providing legal protection such as property laws, basic facilities and training. If these exist, I believe the existing creative industry could be strengthened and developed and at the same time would encourage more youths who are yet to explore this industry to participate in this beneficial field.

For general activities or programmes, I welcome the efforts made by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports through the Youth and Sports Department in providing a place for youths to gather in every district and organise useful programmes.

I believe the step undertaken to enhance development through rebranding of Youth Centres throughout the country is indeed timely, which is not only to occupy their time with fun activities, but more importantly as a place to gain advice and produce valuable arts and cultural products.

I was made to understand that steps undertaken to rebrand Youth Centres was the byproduct of dialogue between the authoritative parties and the target group itself, the youths.It means that the establishment of activities or programmes which are going to be implemented need to take into consideration the taste of youths themselves. This is appropriate as today’s youths are tomorrow’s pioneers.

“In this context, I wish to take this opportunity to urge youths to jointly make the aspiration a success and to make such Youth Centres as a recreational, learning, pious place that serves the individuals, religion, people and the nation.” Text taken from Borneo Bulletin. Images by Azrol Azmi and Khairil Hassan of Borneo Bulletin.

His Majesty graced this year’s National Youth Day. Image by Khairil Hassan

His Majesty toured the exhibition and witnessed the talents of the youth. Image by Azrol Azmi

Dance performance at the Indoor Stadium. Image by Khairil Hassan

The youths of Brunei. Image by Khairil Hassan

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The pride of our Brunei Youth. Image by Azrol Azmi