{"id":2965,"date":"2014-01-15T14:07:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T03:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aiya.org.au\/?p=2965"},"modified":"2025-04-23T18:28:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T08:28:47","slug":"international-malay-speech-competition-pabm-2014-applications-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/2014\/01\/15\/international-malay-speech-competition-pabm-2014-applications-now-open\/","title":{"rendered":"International Malay Language Speech (PABM) competition applications now open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever fancied the chance to\u00a0<strong>speak for your country<\/strong>? The 8th annual\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pabm.com.my\/\"><em>Pidato Antarabanga Bahasa Melayu<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(PABM) competition is taking place this March, and we&#8217;re looking for candidates from Australia and New Zealand!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/34.101.188.30\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Group-shot-in-front-of-KLCC-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"230\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/34.101.188.30\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/D5-147-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PABM is an international Malay and Indonesian language speaking competition coordinated by the office of the Prime Minister of Malaysia. As a candidate representing Australia or New Zealand, you\u2019ll travel to Malaysia to take part in the competition over two weeks, from the 2nd to the 18th of March, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>All entrants take part in a home stay program and speaking events throughout Malaysia. The competition offers prizes worth up to US$7,000 \u2014 and flights, accommodation and entertainment are included!<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s candidate last year,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pabm.com.my\/peserta\/peserta-pabm-2013\">Courtney Saville<\/a>, wrote about her experience\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aiya.org.au\/2013\/03\/my-pabm-experience-courtney-saville\/\">in a blog post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Thank you AIYA, the Malaysian Government and all the sponsors for giving me such a great opportunity. I had some of the best conversations, laughed all day every day and made some friends for life. I now know 71 people from all over the world that I communicate with by speaking Indonesian \u2013 who would have thought?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Interested in applying? More information\u00a0<a title=\"Join PABM 2014!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aiya.org.au\/pabm-2014\/\">available here<\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever fancied the chance to\u00a0speak for your country? The 8th annual\u00a0Pidato Antarabanga Bahasa Melayu\u00a0(PABM) competition is taking place this March, and we&#8217;re looking for candidates from Australia and New Zealand! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/2014\/01\/15\/international-malay-speech-competition-pabm-2014-applications-now-open\/\" class=\"more-link style1-button\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[508],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"id","enabled_languages":["au","id"],"languages":{"au":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"id":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28181,"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions\/28181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}