Patriotic Malaysians celebrate National Day 2023

The Star

The spirit of patriotism is very much alive as Malaysians celebrated this year’s National Day, with the theme “Malaysia Madani: Tekad Perpaduan, Penuhi Harapan” .  Hundreds of thousands thronged Putrajaya Square to watch the contingents from various government agencies and non-governmental organisations (NGO) at the annual parade on Thursday (Aug 31).   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:06 The Jalur Gemilang flew majestically

00:08 as over 100,000 people from all walks of life

00:12 rekindled their spirit of patriotism

00:14 on Malaysia's National Day at Dataran Putrajaya on Thursday.

00:19 The 66th National Day carries extra significance,

00:22 as it is also the first involving the unity government

00:25 under the leadership of Prime Minister Dato' Sri Anwar Ibrahim.

00:29 Many visitors had gathered at Dataran Putrajaya

00:31 as early as 3 AM just to watch the celebrations.

00:36 30-year-old Muhammad Khairul Imam,

00:38 who is a caterer with a hospital seat,

00:40 he had applied for leave to attend the celebration

00:42 along with his friends.

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01:29 Meanwhile, for Krishna Veni, the Merdeka celebration

01:32 this year was extra special to her and her family

01:35 as her daughter took part in the National Day parade.

01:38 We all came from Batu Cave.

01:40 We left the house--

01:41 2 o'clock in the morning.

01:42 Yeah.

01:44 Because she performed today.

01:47 Yeah, first time.

01:47 First time she's doing performance.

01:49 Yeah.

01:50 Very nice.

01:51 Very nice.

01:51 It was very nice.

01:52 Quite interesting.

01:53 First time.

01:53 This is our first time.

01:54 First experience.

01:55 Yeah, it was totally different compared to previous one.

01:58 For student Nurul Safia, she said

02:00 she was excited to join in the National Day celebration.

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02:05 Foreigners were also in awe to witness

02:24 Malaysia's unique diversity and unity displayed

02:27 at the 2023 National Day celebration.

02:30 It's a beautiful country, lot of nice culture,

02:34 very tolerant people, very helpful.

02:36 And today's day is so important.

02:38 So I wasn't going to miss it.

02:40 I came and it was beautiful.

02:42 I came early in the morning, saw the procession,

02:45 and I also visited some of the buildings and the mosques

02:48 here.

02:50 In short, very beautiful experience.

02:52 Oh, I really enjoyed it.

02:54 I like seeing the patriotism.

02:58 I don't know, my friend told me that only Americans

03:01 are patriotic.

03:02 And I was like, oh, no, I mean, this

03:03 is just like America on Independence Day

03:05 or something like that.

03:06 I would echo that.

03:07 It's very much similar to America.

03:10 It's an important day, Independence Day,

03:12 very similar to America.

03:13 The parade itself, very beautiful.

03:16 The performance is very great.

03:18 I love Malaysia because it's such an international country.

03:22 There's a lot of different people from different country,

03:25 but they live here and they work together

03:28 and contribute to the country.

03:30 It's a very great thing.

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