FOLLOWING the encouraging response last year, Taurean Café at The Arch in Gadong has come up with a fresh daily menu for its sungkai buffet during Ramadhan. Priced at an affordable $9.90 for adults and $5.90 per child (below 12 years of age), the cafe’s menu has been designed to vary from Monday to Sunday. .
THE Orchid Garden Hotel’s (OGH’s) Goldiana Cafe is currently offering a grand feast for all patrons to break their fast. Its Sungkai Ramadhan promotion offers a seven-day, specially selected menu-cycle throughout the holy fasting month. A variety of 100 dishes are available daily, with many specialty stalls to choose from. The menu is changed, with .
Standard Chartered Bank THE past month has brought exceptionally choppy market conditions amid apparently powerful swings between risk appetite and risk aversion. The impulsive global improvement in risk appetite, exemplified by the surge in the US S&P equity indices since early March, has shown clear signs of petering out. Superficially, at least, this may appear .
A BILATERAL agreement between Brunei and the Philippines under the Brunei Darussalam-Philippines Agricultural Cooperation Project (Brunei-RP ACP) is expected to increase the exchange of technological expertise and trade of agricultural products between the two countries, among other mutual benefits. At a recent bilateral meeting, the status of a rice-planting project in Wasan was assessed, possible .
W MEGASTORE, the latest concept store in town, will be having combined sales for three days starting tomorrow until Sunday featuring a variety of brand names such as Vogue, My Small World, Bras N’ Stuffs and Blue Cheeze. It will be held at the Songket Ballroom, Rizqun International Hotel in Gadong from 10am to 10pm. .
Connection to big ports in the region enhanced Move strengthens Brunei’s Bimp-Eaga hub aspirations BRUNEI’S excellent port facilities coupled with its vastly improved trade in the region has attracted the services of Mariana Express Lines, one of the big shipping liners based in Singapore to Muara Port. The arrival of the shipping liner, which docked .
UK Education exhibition at Science College A UK Education exhibition was organised by Paduka Seri Begawan Sultan Science College in collaboration with the British Council yesterday morning. The event was held at the college’s auditorium. Participating in the exhibition were representatives from about 20 universities from Liverpool, Manchester, Kent, Kensington, Sheffield, Essex and East Anglia .
STUDENTS leaving for the UK to pursue their studies in September and October attended a pre-departure briefing that took place at the Songket Ballroom of the Rizqun International Hotel yesterday afternoon. The event saw more than 80 UK bound students, some with their parents and family members, attend the briefing that served to provide them .
ISLAM encourages its followers to contribute or make a donation in the form of cash or food to lessen the burden of the less fortunate, especially during Ramadhan and Hari Raya. Yesterday the presentation of donations to orphans in Brunei-Muara and Temburong districts as well as the launching of SMS Prihatin for the National Orphans .
DURING the Holy Month of Ramadhan, Bruneian travellers can choose from a selection of exciting Royal Brunei Airlines Golden Touch Holidays packages to Dubai, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore or Jakarta, according to a press release. Abd Nasir Hj Bolhassan, Vice President of Sales, said “With these packages, a passenger can fly to any of these destinations .
