His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam holds a stalk of paddy in the air, to the delight of a crowd of officials and farmers, after he reaped it with a sickle on Aug 3 in Wasan, Brunei-Muara District. The oil-rich Southeast Asian country is striving to produce enough rice to feed its population of 390,000. [Zamri Bin Zainal Abidin/Brunei Times]