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161337
Wed, 02/16/2011 - 04:11
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PM flags off convoy to Thailand, Myanmar
PUTRAJAYA, Feb 16 (Bernama) -- Prime Minister Najib Razak Tuesday flagged off a "Jelajah Silaturrahim" convoy to Thailand and Myanmar aimed at fostering better relations with Muslims and harmony with non-Muslims.
Forty participants comprising officers and staff of the Islamic Missionary Foundation of Malaysia (Yadim) as well as members of Sahabat Yadim are going on the mission in eight cars, led by Yadim president Aziz Jamaludin Mohd Tahir.
The convoy, flagged off at the Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin Mosque here in conjunction with Prophet Muhammad's birthday celebration, will travel over five nights and six days to Thailand and then to Kawthaung in southern Myanmar on the border with Ranong.
Some 15,000 Malays live in Kawthaung and speak Malay in the slang of northern peninsular Malaysia.
The convoy participants are scheduled to carry out various religious and social activities in Kawthaung.
Also present at the flag-off were the prime minister's wife, Rosmah Mansor, Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and his wife Norainee Abdul Rahman and Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Jamil Khir Baharom.
Forty participants comprising officers and staff of the Islamic Missionary Foundation of Malaysia (Yadim) as well as members of Sahabat Yadim are going on the mission in eight cars, led by Yadim president Aziz Jamaludin Mohd Tahir.
The convoy, flagged off at the Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin Mosque here in conjunction with Prophet Muhammad's birthday celebration, will travel over five nights and six days to Thailand and then to Kawthaung in southern Myanmar on the border with Ranong.
Some 15,000 Malays live in Kawthaung and speak Malay in the slang of northern peninsular Malaysia.
The convoy participants are scheduled to carry out various religious and social activities in Kawthaung.
Also present at the flag-off were the prime minister's wife, Rosmah Mansor, Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and his wife Norainee Abdul Rahman and Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Jamil Khir Baharom.
