Rachel Thien and Rasidah HAB BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN ALTHOUGH Brunei Shell Petroleum’s (BSP) main focus is on producing oil and gas in the Sultanate, it has also been playing an active role in environmental conservations by sponsoring initiatives relating to the matter. On October 28 last year, BSP sponsored $500,000 for the Heart of Borneo .
THE Chief of Staff of the Sultan’s Armed Forces from the Sultanate of Oman, Lieutenant General Ahmed Harith Nasser Al-Nabhani, and his delegation, paid a visit to the Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Islamic Exhibition Gallery at the Darulifta Brunei Darussalam Complex, State Mufti’s Office, Jalan Babu Raja, yesterday. Upon arrival at the complex, the Lieutenant .
HARI Raya Aidilfitri celebrations were held at the Eric Goh Centre for the handicapped at Kampong Pandan, Kuala Belait, yesterday morning. Present as the chief guest at the event was Assistant Director at Community Development Care, Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, Haji Rosmadee bin Haji Mohd Daud. Also in attendance as a special guest .
SEAMED will soon have its newest centre, the fourth to date, which is called “Seameo Centre on Special Education” in Malaysia. The establishment of the four centres was approved through a council resolution at the 44th Seameo Council Conference last April 2009 in Phuket, Thailand. At the same time, the Seameo Council has also approved .
“SINCE Seameo Innotech’s establishment in January 1970, we have witnessed its pivotal role in supporting Seameo’s purpose of fostering education for human resource development by initiating and disseminating innovative and technology-oriented programmes for Southeast Asia’s educators from the grass root to the ministerial level with the ultimate goal of transforming traditional learning to many new .
IN CONJUNCTION with the mooncake festival, The Empire Hotel & Country Club is selling homemade mini snow skin mooncakes from Sept 19 to Oct 4. The moon cakes come in six varieties: green tea lavender, pandan saffron, white lotus-durian, white coffee-mint, red bean-tongkat ali and custard-pandan. The 15″ day of the eighth month of the .
FIFTY-eight houses for the poor in the four districts will be given out by the end of the year. In the Tutong District, Permanent Secretary at the Prime Minister’s Office, Dato Awg Hj Abd Aziz bin Orang Kaya Maharaja Lela Hj Mohd Yussof yesterday handed over houses to three recipients. Dyg Norli la bte Abdullah .
KICKING off the fourth quarter of the school year, five schools from Cluster One area attended an accelerated learning workshop as part of an initiative to help students better prepare themselves for the upcoming exams that is just around the corner. Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien college Principal, Pg Hj Zahari Pg Hj Ahmad said that .
Ground-breaking ceremony for $26-million auditorium BY January 2011, Jerudong International School will have its own multi-million-dollar sophisticated Art Centre, the largest of its kind in Brunei that will stand to benefit not only its growing student population but also the local music community. The new Art Centre will consist of a theatre, an acoustically sophisticated .
Airil A TEENAGER of Iban descent made a leap of faith by embracing Islam in a conversion ceremony that took place yesterday morning, at the Tutong Dakwah Department office. The ceremony began with the recital of Surah Al-Fatihah. Johnny Anak Janting recited the “dua kalimah syahadah” in the presence of officers of the Tutong Dakwah .
