From this year onwards, 16 September has been declared as a public holiday to celebrate Malaysia Day.
For those who do not know, Malaysia was formed on 16th September 1963, when Malaya, Sabah (then known as North Borneo), Sarawak and Singapore came together as a country.However Singapore was quit from Malaysia later on. For the first time, in 2010, our Government has declared Malaysia Day as a public holiday.
Malaysia Day is a day for all Malaysians to celebrate our nationhood: irrespective of whether we are from East Malaysia or West Malaysia; and regardless of our ethnicity, culture, religion, social standing, or any of the other many different ways in which we (or others, for us) delineate, classify and identify ourselves.
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