PM Lee meets Singapore community in Brunei
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UNDERGRADUATE Syazana Hussain awoke at dawn on Thursday, hoping for the chance to snap a photo of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah in his gold-and-black chariot in the celebrations to mark the golden jubilee of his ascension to the Bruneian throne.
She and her friends were hours early to snag a place in the front of the 60,000-strong crowd. The 24-year-old Singaporean, who is on a scholarship from the Brunei government to study at Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University where the sultan is chancellor, said: "My local friends tell me he has changed the nation a lot with all his hard work.
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