PM NAJIB TO LAUNCH 1MALAYSIA YOUTH FUND FRIDAY

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 17 (Bernama) -- Prime Minister Najib Razak is scheduled to
launch the RM20 million 1Malaysia Youth Fund on Friday, where he will also
announce more details on how Malaysian youths could take advantage of the fund.

The prime minister said this in the latest video posted in his blog
www.1malaysia.com Monday, as a response to a Danial Fahmi's question on
tanyanajib.

The youth had asked the prime minister if there would be further development for
youths so that they could rise to their full potential and help eliminate social
problems.

"(The Fund is) basically an idea that we should try to incentivise the youth to
undertake projects of their choice as long as the projects are in consonant with
our national theme of 1Malaysia," Najib said.

He said the idea for the fund was mooted at a youth lab attended last year.

The government had allocated RM20 million to the 1Malaysia fund for youth
development under the Budget 2011. (US$1=RM3.05)
-- BERNAMA