Activities

Film Debut Gives Insight into Myanmar Scenery

December 20, 2019

Aziz Idris

Ambassador of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar to Brunei Darussalam U Htin Lynn and spouse Daw Hnin Ko with Film producer from Myanmar Nan Mouk Laung Siang. PHOTO: BRUNEI FILM BLITZ

An entry submission from Myanmar made its mark in the Brunei Film Blitz for the first time with the film entitled The Jade World from Manaw Land, tells the story of Myanmar's most precious gem.
The screening took place at the Mahakarya Institute of the Arts Asia in Plaza Athirah yesterday.
Ambassador of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar to Brunei Darussalam U Htin Lynn and spouse, Daw Hnin Ko were present.
Film producer from Myanmar Nan Mouk Laung Siang was also present. She has had multiple successes in documentary and TV series. She shared that entering film wasn't in her plans.
She said, “I wanted to do something that shares Myanmar to the world. A story to share with a global audience.”
Myanmar is where the best jade comes from and in order to carry out jade mining, miners make great sacrifices – some even their lives.
Myanmar will be celebrating 100 years of cinema in 2020 and considers the Brunei Film Blitz the start of their celebration.
“When I got the invitation to Brunei, I was excited. My schedule didn't permit as I am producing Myanmar Idol at the moment and we are reaching the finale, but I wanted to be here to present Jade World and meet the organisers of the Brunei Film Blitz,” she explained.
Similar to Brunei, Myanmar also faces difficulties in film production as most of the film productions are independently funded.
In terms of future collaborations, she wishes to make another visit to Brunei Darussalam to explore possibilities, knowledge transfers and cultural exchanges.
Festival Director of Brunei Film Blitz Siti Kamaluddin also shared the excitement of the Myanmar involvement. She said, “It is not everyday we get to watch films from Myanmar. With this debut, we get an insight of Myanmar scenery. Its stories paint a visual portrait of Myanmar in our minds, and that is exciting.”
The Brunei Film Blitz will be having more of 'Close Up Series' sessions throughout the week as well as International Screenings from over 15 countries.

Top Diplomats Discover More About Massutera

December 1, 2019

Hakim Hayat

Members of the Diplomatic Corps in a group photo. PHOTO: HAKIM HAYAT

As one of the leading construction companies in Brunei, Massutera Engineering Sdn Bhd yesterday hosted seven top diplomats in Brunei Darussalam to an excursion of Belait, allowing them to better understand the company's roles and to explore potential technical and business cooperation with different countries.
During a briefing at its office in Sungai Bera Light Industrial Area, Managing Director of Massutera Engineering Haji Muhd Alfie bin Haji Omar disclosed some of the current and past projects the company has been involved in, particularly large to medium scale projects related to big names in the oil and gas industry and also government and commercial projects.
Leading the delegation of diplomats was Myanmar Ambassador to Brunei Darussalam U Htin Lynn, who told the Sunday Bulletin that they were interested to learn more on how the successful engineering company is conducting its operations in Brunei.
“We are also exploring the possibility of cooperation between our respective countries. For instance, today we have seven ambassadors visiting, and we had fruitful discussion on how we can further bilateral cooperation with Brunei – particularly with the company,” he added.

“International Night” in conjunction with the 73rd birthday celebration for His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah ibni Al-Marhum

The Embassy of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Brunei Darussalam participated in the ceremony organized a stage performance by the Ministry of Youth and Sport in Brunei with the title of “International Night” in conjunction with the 73^rd birthday celebration for His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah ibni Al-Marhum which falls on 15 July 2019.

The Myanmar traditional dance performances namely Malay Letkatthan, Thingyan , U Shwe Yo and Daw Moe were presented to the people of Brunei with a view to enhancing understanding of friendship between the two peoples.

The Embassy of Myanmar express its appreciation of thanks to the Embassy of Myanmar in Malaysia, Myanmar’s Social Welfare Association and Sardan Philanthropy Association in Malaysia and dancers Ma Naing Naing Win, Ma Ei Ei Phyo, Ma Phyo Zar Nyein and Ma Aye Ei Khin.

Malay Letkatthan

Thingyan

U Shwe Yo and Daw Moe

UBD Receives Book Donation From Myanmar Embassy

The Embassy of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, as part of its effort to create greater understanding and awareness on Myanmar as part of ASEAN, donated a collection of books to the Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) Library.

The donated books cover diverse topics including Myanmar history, folktales, memoirs and biographies, arts and heritage, contemporary issues and economy. Ambassador of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar to Brunei Darussalam His Excellency U Htin Lynn and spouse, Madam Daw Hnin Ko presented the books to UBD Vice-Chancellor Datin Dr Hajah Anita Binurul Zahrina binti Pehin Orang Kaya Laila Wijaya Dato Seri Setia Haji Awang Abdul Aziz.

The book donation marks a friendly and cordial relationship in education, culture and arts between Brunei Darussalam and Myanmar. The Embassy's donation is hoped to enrich the reading resources on Myanmar at UBD Library and enable more Bruneian readers to understand and learn about Myanmar history as well as its contemporary economy. During the book donation ceremony, the Ambassador pointed out that promoting bilateral relations between Brunei Darussalam and the Republic of the Union of Myanmar must begin with building understanding and friendship not only between government officials but also with the people, and institutions, including academia.

In academic collaboration, UBD is partnered with the Yangon Institute of Economics, University of Yangon and University of Mandalay via the ASEAN University Network (AUN). UBD actively collaborates with AUN member universities in academics and research, as well as exchanges. Under the Brunei Darussalam Scholarship on Enhancing Professional Communication Skills for ASEAN, for the scholarship to participants from ASEAN countries to undertake a seven-week English language training programme at UBD-FPT Global Centre in Da Nang, Vietnam about 27 participants from Myanmar have been awarded to date since the launch of this programme last year.

ဘရူနိုင်းနိုင်ငံ ဆူလ်တန်ဘုရင်၏ မွေးနေ့ အထိမ်းအမှတ် ဖျော်ဖြေပွဲတွင် မြန်မာသံရုံးမှ ပါဝင်ဆင်နွှဲခဲ့ခြင်း

၂၀၁၉ ခုနှစ်၊ ဇူလိုင်လ (၁၅) ရက်တွင် ကျရောက်သော ဘရူနိုင်း ဆူလ်တန် ဘုရင်၏ (၇၃) နှစ်မြောက် မွေးနေ့အား ဂုဏ်ပြုဖျော်ဖြေပွဲ အခမ်းအနားကို International Night ခေါင်းစဉ်ဖြင့် ဘရူနိုင်း ယဉ်ကျေးမှု၊ လူငယ်နှင့် အားကစားဝန်ကြီးဌာနမှ (၂၀-၇-၂၀၁၉) ရက်တွင် ကြီးမှူး ကျင်းပခဲ့ရာ မြန်မာသံရုံးမှ ပါဝင်ဆင်နွှဲခဲ့ပါသည်။

ဖော်ပြပါအခမ်းအနားတွင် ဘရူနိုင်းပြည်သူများအနေဖြင့် မြန်မာပြည်သူများ၏ ရိုးရာ ယဉ်ကျေးမှုအကများကို လက်တွေ့မြင်တွေ့သိရှိစေလျက် မြန်မာ-ဘရူနိုင်း ပြည်သူများအကြား ချစ်ကြည်မှုနှင့် နားလည်မှုကို အထောက်အကူပြုတိုးပွားစေရန်အတွက် မြန်မာ့ယဉ်ကျေးမှုနှင့် ရိုးရာအစဉ်အလာများကို ထင်ဟပ်စေသည့် မလေးလက်ခတ်သံအက၊ ပိတောက်လက်ဆောင် သင်္ကြန်အကနှင့် ဦးရွှေရိုးဒေါ်မိုးအကတို့ဖြင့် တင်ဆက်ခဲ့ပါသည်။

မြန်မာအကများဖြင့် တင်ဆက်နိုင်ရေးအတွက် ဝိုင်းဝန်းကူညီခဲ့ကြသော မြန်မာသံရုံး ကွာလာလမ်ပူမြို့၊ မြန်မာလူမှုကူညီရေးအသင်း (မလေးရှား)၊ စာဒန်းပရဟိတအသင်း (မလေးရှား) နှင့် ပါဝင်ကပြခဲ့သည့် မနိုင်နိုင်ဝင်း၊ မအိအိဖြိုး၊ မဖြိုးဇာငြိမ်းနှင့် မအေးအိခင်တို့ကို မြန်မာသံရုံး၊ ဘန်ဒါဆရီဘီဂါဝန်မြို့မှ အထူးကျေးဇူးတင်ရှိကြောင်း ဖော်ပြအပ်ပါသည်။