In July 2002 he assumed duty as Commander, Naval Region 2 in Labuan.

This would be the division's final involvement in the war and its participation in the campaign was broken up into two primary operations: a landing on Tarakan and another on Brunei and Labuan.

Bank Islam in November 2005 for the first time in their history reported a loss of RM480 million ( US $ 127, 000, 000 ), largely the result of high non-performing loans from its Labuan offshore unit.

The huge losses emerged when Bank Islam converted its Labuan office from a subsidiary to a branch in December 2004, and the affair has cast doubt on the effectiveness of Malaysia's regulatory and supervisory control of its banking system.

Labuan is an early example ; more recently, stamps of Israel include its name in Hebrew, Latin, and Arabic characters.

This modern complex is reputed to be the only one of its kind to be found in any International Offshore Financial Centre in the world and Labuan Port Jetty.

Kuala Penyu is also famous for its beaches, especially Tempurung beach, Sawangan beach and Sungai Labuan Waterfront.

Victoria () is the capital of the Malaysian Federal Territory of Labuan, an island off the north coast of Borneo, though the term Bandar Labuan is more prominently used than the former.

The name Labuan derives from the Malay word labuhan meaning harbour.

The Labuan International Business and Financial Centre ( Labuan IBFC ) was created as Malaysia ’ s only offshore financial hub on October 1990 and was operating under the name of Labuan International Offshore Financial Centre ( IOFC ).

Sungai Labuan, as the name implies was taken from the name of a river flowing in the heart of Kuala Penyu.

Wearing swim suits, fins, and dive masks on combat operations, these " Naked Warriors " saw action across the Pacific in every major amphibious landing including: Eniwetok, Saipan, Guam, Tinian, Angaur, Ulithi, Peleliu, Leyte, Lingayen Gulf, Zambales, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Labuan, Brunei Bay, and on 4 July 1945 at Balikpapan on Borneo, which was the last UDT demolition operation of the war.

Brooke returned temporarily to England in 1847, where he was given the Freedom of the City of London, appointed governor and commander-in-chief of Labuan, British consul-general in Borneo and was created a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath ( KCB ).

The inquiry in Singapore was concerned with the battle of Labuan in which Brooke / Barr led British warships in a pre-emptive strike against a pirate fleet, breaking the power of the Bugis for the next twenty years.

The unit was renamed No. 1 Airfield Defence Squadron in April 1945. Gravestone of Leading Aircraftman Thomas Irvine, Labuan

Labuan was a part of the Sultanate of Brunei.

During World War II, Labuan was occupied by Japan from December 1941 to June 1945 and governed as part of the Northern Borneo military unit by the Japanese 37th Army.

Labuan was renamed Maida Island ( Pulau Maida, 前田島 ) after Marquis Toshinari Maeda, the first commander of Japanese forces in northern Borneo.

In 1984, Labuan was ceded by Sabah to the federal government and made a federal territory.

In 2010 the notion " offshore " was excluded from all the statutes of Labuan due to world pressure on the tax havens and offshores.

According to Labuan Corporation, ethnic composition in 2005 in Labuan was: Malay mainly Brunei Malay and Kedayan ( 30, 300 ), Ethnic Chinese ( 10, 800 ), Kadazan Dusun ( 5, 500 ), Bajau ( 4, 800 ), Murut ( 700 ), other races ( 13, 300 ) and foreigner ( 18, 600 ).

The territory was placed under control of the colonial office, and became a British crown colony on 15 July 1946 together with islands of Labuan.

Initially, mail from North Borneo was sent via Labuan or Singapore, using postage stamps of the Straits Settlements.

Both Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya were part of Selangor, while Labuan was part of Sabah.

Labuan, an island off coast of mainland Sabah, was chosen by the federal government for development into an offshore financial centre.

Following a preliminary naval and aerial bombardment, the 24th Brigade landed at the southern end of Labuan island, which situated as it was at the entrance of Brunei Bay, commanded the approach to northern Borneo.

In the same year, Sultan Saifuddin II ceded Labuan to the British under the Treaty of Labuan.

Other interpretations may include territories that used to form North Borneo including Sabah, Labuan and the islands of Sipadan and Ligitan, these areas are currently under the Sabah dispute.

The liberation of Borneo began on 10th June 1945 when the Allied Forces under the command of General McArthur landed at Labuan with a convoy of 100 ships.

From 1890 to 1905 the British government placed the colony of Labuan under the administration of North Borneo.

In Malaysia, the term Wilayah Persekutuan, often shortened to " Wilayah " in colloquial speech, refers to the three federal territories under direct control of the federal government: Kuala Lumpur, Labuan and Putrajaya.

In the same year, Sultan Saifuddin II ceded Labuan to the British under the Treaty of Labuan.

For 3 years Tawau and the rest of the country remained under the Japanese occupation until being finally liberated by units of North Australian Division, who landed in Labuan on 10 June 1945.

Until 1855 no colonial bishop was consecrated outside the British Isles, the first instance being Bishop MacDougall of Labuan, consecrated in India under a commission from the Archbishop of Canterbury ; and until 1874 it was held to be unlawful for a bishop to be consecrated in England without taking the suffragan's Oath of Due Obedience.

In return the sultan ceded complete sovereignty of Sarawak to Brooke, who in 1846 presented the island of Labuan to the British government.

Dutch East Indies, British Borneo, Labuan, Sarawak, Brunei, the Cocos and Christmas Islands, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and Portuguese Timor ( to be purchased from Portugal ).

* Francis Septimus Hollis ( 1884-1955 ), British clergyman and Bishop of Labuan and Sarawak 1938-1948.

In 1890, Labuan came to be administered by the British North Borneo Chartered Company.

* The 2 / 9th Armoured Regiment, also using Matildas, served in the Borneo campaign ( 1945 ), including the Australian amphibious landings at Tarakan, Sarawak, Brunei, Labuan and British Borneo in 1945.

In the end only the operations against Tarakan, Balikpapan and British Borneo — at Labuan and Brunei Bay — took place.

The 24th Brigade, however, encountered greater opposition in taking the island of Labuan, where the defenders withdrew to an inland stronghold where they held out along dense jungle covered ridges and muddy swamps.

After securing Labuan, the 24th Brigade was landed on the northern shore of Brunei Bay on 16 June, while the 20th Brigade continued to consolidate the southern lodgement by advanced south-west along the coast towards Kuching and securing the hinterland as well.