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BRUNEI DARUSSALAM SEEKS TO EXPLORE INVESTMENT SCOPE IN MALAYSIA
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Jan 25 (Bernama) -Brunei Darussalam has expressed interest to step up bilateral trade with the focus on expanding and exploring the scope of investment in Malaysia, Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said here Tuesday.
He said that in his discussions with Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, it was learnt that Brunei Darussalam had identified Iskandar Malaysia in Johor, Sabah and Sarawak as the three territories with great potential for investment.
The sultan had granted an audience to Muhyiddin, who is on a two-day official visit to Brunei Darussalam during which he is also scheduled to attend the 46th Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organisation (Seameo) Council Conference (Seamec) and 6th Asean Education Ministers Meeting (ASED).
"No decision has been made on the specific investment areas but among them are food and meat production, cattle farming, hotel and real estate," Muhyiddin told reporters after a visit to Sekolah Vokasional Nakhoda Ragam.
He said the investment would be undertaken by the Brunei Investment Agency (BIA), an organisation under the finance ministry of that country.
Muhyiddin, who is also education minister, said both countries would also establish cooperation in education, particularly in the aspect of international schools, vocational education and ICT.
He said that in the area of international schools, one aspect to be looked into would be the need for exchange of students because a feature of the development of high-performance schools in Malaysia was an international network among schools abroad.
On vocational education, he said, the focus would be on enhancing the quality of such education in the two countries.
ICT development involved software content and teacher training, he added.
Muhyiddin said Malaysia was interested in learning from Brunei Darussalam's experience in raising English Language fluency among school children.
"They also use English Language experts from the United Kingdom," he said, adding that Malaysia wanted to look into this aspect following the government's new policy to recruit English Language experts from abroad to teach the language
in Malaysia.
He said that in his discussions with Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, it was learnt that Brunei Darussalam had identified Iskandar Malaysia in Johor, Sabah and Sarawak as the three territories with great potential for investment.
The sultan had granted an audience to Muhyiddin, who is on a two-day official visit to Brunei Darussalam during which he is also scheduled to attend the 46th Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organisation (Seameo) Council Conference (Seamec) and 6th Asean Education Ministers Meeting (ASED).
"No decision has been made on the specific investment areas but among them are food and meat production, cattle farming, hotel and real estate," Muhyiddin told reporters after a visit to Sekolah Vokasional Nakhoda Ragam.
He said the investment would be undertaken by the Brunei Investment Agency (BIA), an organisation under the finance ministry of that country.
Muhyiddin, who is also education minister, said both countries would also establish cooperation in education, particularly in the aspect of international schools, vocational education and ICT.
He said that in the area of international schools, one aspect to be looked into would be the need for exchange of students because a feature of the development of high-performance schools in Malaysia was an international network among schools abroad.
On vocational education, he said, the focus would be on enhancing the quality of such education in the two countries.
ICT development involved software content and teacher training, he added.
Muhyiddin said Malaysia was interested in learning from Brunei Darussalam's experience in raising English Language fluency among school children.
"They also use English Language experts from the United Kingdom," he said, adding that Malaysia wanted to look into this aspect following the government's new policy to recruit English Language experts from abroad to teach the language
in Malaysia.
