{"id":12258,"date":"2019-03-05T15:10:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T07:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=12258"},"modified":"2019-03-05T15:21:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T07:21:40","slug":"malaysia-brunei-sign-mou-on-movement-of-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=12258","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia, Brunei sign MoU on movement of prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia, March 5 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding on the movement of prisoners between the two countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The MoU involves the transfer and escort of prisoners or detainees from Malaysia&#8217;s Sabah and Sarawak states through Brunei Darussalam and the transfer and escort of prisoners or detainees from Brunei Darussalam through Sabah and Sarawak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Home Minister Muhyiddin\u00a0Yassin\u00a0signed the MoU for Malaysia and his counterpart\u00a0Dr Awang\u00a0Abu Bakar\u00a0Apong, for Brunei Darussalam, at Perdana\u00a0Putra, here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The signing was witnessed by the Sultan of Brunei Darussalam, Sultan Hassanal&nbsp;Bolkiah, and Malaysian Prime Minister&nbsp;Dr Mahathir Mohamad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also present at the event were Malaysian Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah; Finance Minister&nbsp;Lim Guan Eng; Economic Affairs Minister&nbsp;Mohamed Azmin Ali; Defence Minister&nbsp;Mohamad Sabu; Sabah Chief Minister Mohd Shafie Apdal&nbsp;and Sarawak Chief Minister Abang Johari&nbsp;Openg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah&nbsp;held talks with Dr Mahathir&nbsp;under the framework of the Malaysia-Brunei Darussalam&nbsp;Annual Leaders\u2019 Consultation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is learned that the four-eyed meeting of over an hour discussed bilateral ties and issues of common interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah&nbsp;flew in to the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) airbase in Subang Monday evening for the two-day visit to Malaysia. His Majesty leaves Wednesday. (photoBERNAMA)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia, March 5 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding on the movement of prisoners between the two countries. The MoU involves the transfer and escort of prisoners or detainees from Malaysia&#8217;s Sabah and Sarawak states through Brunei Darussalam and the transfer and escort of prisoners or detainees from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":5079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12258"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}