BRUNEI-MUARA BRUNEI’S 21st Century National Education System (SPN21) has garnered praises from a visiting Singaporean senior government official, who expressed her confidence in the new education system. “SPN21 is a very bold and visionary plan. I am very confident after interacting with my colleagues (Brunei education officials) that there is a determination to put in .
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN WORK began on the widening of the road from Sungai Lampai to Bubungan Dua Belas yesterday with Minister of Development pouring the cement for the initial columns that will physically support the road expansion. The work that began yesterday was only the beginning of Phase I of the Jalan Residency Upgrading Project, .
TUTONG THERE have been no drug relapses to date among Al-Islah Rehabilitation Centre residents since the facility in Tutong District introduced the “Therapeutic Community” (TC) programme in 2008 to help drug users combat their addiction. Hj Roslan Hj Suhaili, commandant of the centre, said this yesterday, adding that this achievement was due to the TC .
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN A KEY prosecution witness was brought before the High Court yesterday to give his testimony in the trial of four police officers accused of culpable homicide. Mohd Saiful, the first of the 34 witnesses that will be called to give evidence during trial, retracted his testimony after intense cross-examination from defence counsel. .
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN AL-QURAN contains the highest kind of knowledge that we need, but this knowledge has been forgotten in the secular paradigm, said a Malaysian religious expert yesterday. Speaking during a public lecture on ” Returning to Al-Quran paradigm on knowledge” at Chancellor Hall, UBD, Professor Tan Sri Dr Mohd Kamal Hassan said: “There .
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN A BANGLADESHI man will stand on trial in June after pleading not guilty yesterday before the Magistrates Court to two charges of stealing from his employer and providing false information to the police. Sumon Shahjahan Miah, 35, who is accused of stealing $5,000 from his employer on March 13, will be appearing .
TUTONG IT ALL started with consuming cannabis, until he started taking ketamine (horse tranquiliser). Yang Chin Ann, 30, a resident at the Al-Islah rehabilitation centre, spoke of how he was a drug abuser for 10 years, and how it was a hard, but the greatest decision he made was to check himself into the centre .
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN JAPANESE financial services provider SBI Holdings, Inc (SBIH) said it will form an alliance with Brunei’s Ministry of Finance to establish a fund management company expected to handle private equity funds, including Syariah-compliant vehicles. SBIH of Japan and the ministry through its investment vehicle Brunei Global Islamic Investments Sendirian Berhad have agreed .
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN UOB Asset Management (B) Sdn Bhd, will be looking into putting together their own fund, originating from Brunei. At the moment, the asset management firm is distributing funds developed by their arm in Singapore. “We are now distributing the United Asia Fund, which is developed in Singapore but registered in Brunei, so .
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN HONGKONG and Shanghai Bank Corporation (HSBC) has launched a new personal banking proposition for the financially progressive emerging mass of affluent customers in Brunei which is a estimated to be 20 per cent of the bankable population. Introducing HSBC Advance at the Rizqun International Hotel yesterday, the bank’s deputy chief executive officer .
