THE Borneo Bulletin Yearbook (BBYB) hosted its Business Networking event on Monday, connecting industry leaders at the Royal Brunei Recreation Club (RBRC) in Berakas. More details in Tuesday’s Borneo Bulletin.

The role of the private sector remains vital in boosting Brunei’s economic diversification efforts and the government continues to push for more inward investments into the country by leveraging its strategic location and economic partnerships, Permanent Secretary (Investment) at the Ministry of Finance and Economy (MoFE) Haji Khairuddin bin Haji Abdul Hamid said. More details […]

His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Haji Omar ‘Ali Saifuddien Sa’adul Khairi Waddien, Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam presented Letters of Credence to newly appointed Brunei envoys and received Letters of Credence from newly appointed foreign envoys to Brunei Darussalam on Monday afternoon. More details in Tuesday’s Borneo […]

CAIRO (AP) – Organisers of the protests in Sudan that forced long-ruling President Omar al-Bashir from office are calling on the military to “immediately and unconditionally” hand power to a transitional civilian government that would rule for four years. The political parties and movements behind the four months of protests said in a joint statement […]

|    James Kon    | MORE than 300 people gathered at Taman Haji Sir Muda Omar ‘Ali Saifuddien yesterday for the Reintegration Run 2019, running in support of former inmates and their journeys to be reintegrated into society. The event was organised by the Prisons Department to mark its 65th anniversary with the cooperation of the […]

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The world’s largest airplane – a Stratolaunch behemoth with two fuselages and six Boeing 747 engines – made its first test flight last Saturday in California. The mega jet carried out its maiden voyage over the Mojave desert. It is designed to carry into space, and drop, a rocket that would in turn […]

NEW DELHI (AP) — The British envoy to India said his country regrets a massacre of hundreds of Indians by British colonial forces in the northwest city of Amritsar 100 years ago and “will continue to do so”. Yesterday marked the centenary of the attack at Jallianwala Bagh by British colonial troops against unarmed Indians […]

CANBERRA (Xinhua) – Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced a funding boost for the nation’s youth suicide prevention plan yesterday after the death of a young indigenous woman. The 18-year-old woman from the remote community of Balgo in Western Australia (WA) took her own life on Thursday. It was the 12th time an indigenous person […]

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said he is open to a third summit with United States (US) President Donald Trump, but set the year’s end as a deadline for Washington to offer mutually acceptable terms for an agreement to salvage the high-stakes nuclear diplomacy, the North’s state-run media said yesterday. […]

SEVENTEEN compounds were issued on drivers during the ‘On The Move Operation’ around the areas of Lambak Kanan, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Highway, Serasa, Muara, Sengkurong, Mata-Mata and Jalan Kupang on April 4-5 led by the Land Transport Department (JPD), under the Ministry of Transport and Infocommunications. More details in Sunday’s Borneo Bulletin.

SOME 26 senior citizens and 11 orphans from the Temburong District received donations from members of Buzzing Bees Group, part of a charity project organised by the group under their Buzzing Bees Charity Project in collaboration with the Temburong branch of Community Development Department. More details in Sunday’s Borneo Bulletin.

IT SEEMS Brunei’s tourism industry is set to receive an Eastern European boost, if the warm accounts of the country by a group of Russian tourists are anything to go by. The group, visiting Brunei as part of a four-day familiarisation trip organised by one of Russia’s leading tour operators, seem to have fallen in […]

|    James Kon    | A COMPREHENSIVE range of products and services, from Brunei and overseas will be showcased under one roof at the Asia Expo 2019 at Hall 1 and Hall 2 of Bridex Hall, Jerudong from November 27 to December 1. The 230 exhibitors will comprise locals and from ASEAN member countries, China, Japan, […]

A JAMMED ceiling fan is believed to have caused a fire at a bedroom which was doused before spreading to other areas of the house. Fire and Rescue Department officers and members of the public extinguished the fire in the bedroom of a house at RPN Kampong Panchor Mengkubau yesterday. More details in Weekend’s Borneo […]

Seven differently abled youth received scholarships for the UnikLearn 2019 Training and Internship programme during a signing ceremony at the Design & Technology Building, Anggerek Desa yesterday. The scholarship is fully funded by An-Nur Harapan. More details in Weekend’s Borneo Bulletin

KDB Daruttaqwa left the country yesterday for deployment to Qingdao, People’s Republic of China; Busan, Republic of Korea; and Changi, Republic of Singapore. Commanding Officer of KDB Daruttaqwa Commander Haji Edy Jofren bin Pehin Datu Penglima Colonel (Rtd) Dato Paduka Haji Abdul Jalil, leads the delegation. More details in Weekend’s Borneo Bulletin

|    James Kon   | THE Chinese Embassy in Brunei Darussalam will continue to assist Chung Hwa Middle School (CHMS) BSB for the school’s future development and to further promote Chinese culture in the country. Highlighting this was Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Brunei Darussalam Yu Hong in her remarks during an official visit […]

|    Rokiah Mahmud    | THE First Meeting of the Executive Administrative Committee for the 73rd birthday Celebrations of His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Haji Omar ‘Ali Saifuddien Sa’adul Khairi Waddien, Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam for the Brunei-Muara District, was held at the Muhibbah Hall of the […]

|    Aziz Idris    | BIRAKSA, a traditional Bruneian dessert, made its way onto the global culinary stage at the WorldChef Battlefield (WCB) 2019 Competition at Movenpick Hotel & Convention Centre in Sepang, Malaysia. The local dessert was given an improvised twist at the event when it was topped with Mont Blanc puree, creating an exquisite […]

XI’AN (Xinhua) – A newly discovered trove in central China containing soft-bodied fossils that date back 518 million years sheds new light on the diversity of early animal life during the Cambrian period, according to Chinese and foreign researchers. The site of the Burgess Shale-type fossil deposit, the Qingjiang biota, is on a bank of the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – Scientists yesterday revealed the first image ever made of a black hole, depicting a fiery orange and black ring of gravity-twisted light swirling around the edges of the abyss. Assembling data gathered by eight radio telescopes around the world, astronomers captured a picture of the hot, shadowy edges of a super massive […]

MEMBERS of the Executive Administrative Council in charge of the 73rd birthday celebrations of His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Haji Omar ‘Ali Saifuddien Sa’adul Khairi Waddien, Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam in the Belait District, yesterday convened at Santap Hall, near the residence of the Belait District […]

QURANIC Beats Club Universiti Teknologi Brunei (Qbeats UTB) organised a motivational talk entitled ‘That One Journey’ at Lecture Theatre 1, Library Complex, UTB, in conjunction with the celebration of Israk Mikraj this year. More details in Thursday’s Borneo Bulletin

His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Haji Omar ‘Ali Saifuddien Sa’adul Khairi Waddien, Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam and Her Majesty Duli Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak Hajah Saleha binti Al-Marhum Pengiran Pemancha Pengiran Anak Haji Mohamed Alam consented to grace the Jerudong International School (JIS) Year 7 drama […]

Duli Pengiran Muda Al-Muhtadee Billah College (Maktab Duli) organised a Mental Health Awareness Exhibition and Emotional Health Management workshop for teachers yesterday, in conjunction with World Health Day. The exhibition included activities and talks at the Science and IT building, while the workshop was held at the lecture theatre. More details in Wednesday’s Borneo Bulletin

THE 37th ASEAN Transport Facilitation Working Group (TFWG) Meeting opened at the Rizqun International Hotel in Gadong yesterday. Hosted by the Land Transport Department (JPD) under the Ministry of Transport and Info-communications (MTIC), the main agenda of the three-day meeting will be the development of transport facilitation matters within ASEAN, including activities currently in progress. […]

Her Majesty Duli Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak Hajah Saleha binti Al-Marhum Pengiran Pemancha Pengiran Anak Haji Mohamed Alam received in audience Ameena Mohd AM Al-Maliki, the spouse of Ambassador of the State of Qatar to Brunei Darussalam Jassim Ali Abdullah Al Obaidli. More details in Wednesday’s Borneo Bulletin

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) – Dozens of neglected animals were evacuated from a ramshackle Gaza zoo last Sunday in the fourth and largest such rescue mission in the blockaded Palestinian enclave. Vets and volunteers from Four Paws International transported some 40 animals into Israel from the neglected zoo in the southern town of Rafah. […]

BEIRUT (AP) – Syrian government forces and insurgents exchanged a barrage of rockets last Sunday in the country’s northwest that killed at least 13 people and hit a government-run hospital, activists and government media reported. The violence strained a fragile months-old truce negotiated between Russia and Turkey that averted a government offensive on Idlib and […]

KHARTOUM (AFP) – Sudan’s army deployed around its Khartoum headquarters yesterday as thousands of protesters urging the military to join calls for leader Omar al-Bashir’s resignation defied tear gas to demonstrate for a third day, witnesses said. Since protests erupted across Sudan last December, agents of the powerful National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) and […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged last Saturday to annex Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank if re-elected, a dramatic policy shift apparently aimed at rallying his nationalist base in the final stretch of the tight race. Netanyahu has promoted Jewish settlement expansion in his four terms as Prime Minister, but […]

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Authorities in India’s portion of disputed Kashmir yesterday began enforcing a ban on the movement of civilian vehicles on a key highway to keep it open exclusively for military and paramilitary convoys two days a week. Soldiers patrolled the highway and erected barricades by steel and razor wire at intersections with […]

SYDNEY (AFP) – A Dutchman completed an epic 95,000-kilometre journey by electric car in Sydney yesterday in a bid to prove the viability of such vehicles in tackling climate change. Wiebe Wakker drove his retrofitted station wagon nicknamed ‘The Blue Bandit’ across 33 countries in what he said was the world’s longest-ever journey by electric […]

OVER 800 local and foreign running enthusiasts and athletes converged along the vicinity of the Indoor Stadium of the Hassanal Bolkiah National Sports Complex on Sunday, in a dual pursuit of glory and improved race times for the inaugural Borneo Run. More details in Monday’s Borneo Bulletin.  

HER Royal Highness Paduka Seri Pengiran Anak Isteri Pengiran Anak Sarah binti Pengiran Haji Salleh Ab Rahaman attended the opening day of the Brunei National Junior Table Tennis Championship at the Menglait Sports Complex on Sunday. Yang Teramat Mulia Pengiran Muda ‘Abdul Muntaqim ibni Duli Yang Teramat Mulia Paduka Seri Pengiran Muda Mahkota Pengiran Muda […]