IFTAR WITH MATRADE’s MEDIA FRIENDS

Yang Berusaha Puan Susila Devi
Deputy Chief Executive Officer of MATRADE,

Senior Management Members of MATRADE,

The VIP of today’s Iftar our members of the Media,

Ladies and gentlemen.

Assalamualaikum and good evening.

A very warm welcome to MATRADE

1. First and foremost, it’s such a pleasure to be here with all members of the media and I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your presence to our event which aims to primarily to strengthening the bond between MATRADE and our loyal media friends who have without fail been supporting us all the way to provide coverage of MATRADE’s events. Your role and contribution certainly have benefited to all our Malaysian business community one way or another.

2. Besides, I can see some new faces of our media friends and of course those who are non-Muslims have made your time to be here with us today. I truly appreciate it from the bottom of my heart.  I do hope with this kind of engagement, we can work together in branding the name of Malaysia and hope that our combined efforts to grow our economy will continue to enable us to enhance our trade promotion efforts and the collaboration like media engagement to disseminate information with latest development in trade world as to further enhance and propel our economy. Hence, the usage of the hashtag #TheTimeToExportIsNow is very important to MATRADE indeed.

Tuan-tuan dan puan-puan yang dihormati sekalian,

3. Saya tidak bercadang untuk bercakap panjang, memandangkan juadah di depan mata yang lama menunggu kita semua. Sebelum saya mengakhiri ucapan saya, saya sekali lagi ingin mengambil kesempatan untuk mengucapkan SELAMAT HARI RAYA AIDILFITRI , MAAF ZAHIR BATIN daripada saya dan keluarga serta seluruh warga MATRADERs kepada rakan-rakan media yang beragama Islam yang bakal menyambut kedatangan bulan Syawal yang dijangka pada 6hb Julai 2016 nanti.

4. Before I end my short speech, allow me to read one Hari Raya ‘pantun’ to all of you.
"Bersinar indah cahaya bulan,
Ditambah pula cahaya bintang,
Sesama kita bermaaf-maafan,
Dihari lebaran yang bakal menjelang”

Thank you.