Gloria – first Dayak woman to be appointed envoy


Leading the way: The Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Muhammad V with the Malaysian envoys after presenting them their instruments of appointments. Gloria is on the far left.

KUALA LUMPUR: Gloria Corina Peter Tiwet, director of the Sarawak Regional Office in the Foreign Ministry, has created history by becoming the first Sarawak-born woman of Dayak ethnicity to be appointed as a Malaysian envoy.

Gloria, who will be the new Malaysian High Commissioner in Nigeria, is one of the five people who received their instruments of appointment as Malaysian envoys from the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Sultan Muhammad V, at Istana Negara yesterday.

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