Agong, Permaisuri ucap selamat menyambut Pesta Songkran

KUALA LUMPUR: Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah menzahirkan ucapan selamat menyambut perayaan Songkran kepada masyarakat Siam di negara ini.

Turut menzahirkan ucapan itu ialah Raja Permaisuri Agong Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah.

Menerusi catatan di Facebook Istana Negara, Seri Paduka berdua berharap perayaan itu akan dilimpahi dengan keamanan, kebahagiaan dan kesejahteraan kepada semua yang menyambutnya.

Terdapat 60,000 masyarakat berketurunan Siam di Malaysia dengan sebilangan besarnya di Kedah dan Perlis.

Songkran yang terkenal sebagai festival air adalah sambutan Tahun Baharu Thailand yang disambut selama tiga hari bermula 13 April setiap tahun.

-- BERNAMA

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Authoritarian regimes don’t stop at their own borders—often reaching across countries to track, detain, and deport refugees, activists, and migrants. This is transnational repression: when a state extends its repression beyond its own beyond their borders to control or punish its citizens abroad. Malaysia and Thailand, two of Southeast Asia’s biggest hubs for migrants and refugees, have become key battlegrounds for transnational repression. With Malaysia helming ASEAN chair this year, what role does the region play in resisting, or enabling, transnational repression? On this episode of #ConsiderThis Melisa Idris speaks with Douglas Teoh, spokesperson from the End Transnational Repression Alliance.