BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- Brunei's Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah announced reshuffle of the government on Tuesday afternoon in a special speech broadcast nationwide.

Several senior government ministers including Lim Jock Seng, Brunei's Minister at the Prime Minister's Office and Second Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Mohammad Yasmin, Minister of Energy and Industry, were replaced.

Hassanal said in his speech that the new government should fulfill its duties and work hard for the country's development and the wellbeing of its people in the term of five years.