Towards ensuring the successful export of Brunei’s first methanol production, the Brunei Methanol Company (BMC) has awarded a 20-year contract of supporting the plant’s offshore operations and maintenance to Belait Shipping Company. According to an officer at the Belait Shipping Company, the $100 million dollar contract was sealed on Wednesday morning at the BMC plant .
It has been 35 years since they left Brunei Hall but the good memories are still very much alive. Former residents of Brunei Hall back in 1975 took a trip down memory lane when they gathered for a heart-warming reunion at the London-inspired Terindak Restaurant last night. The first Welfare Officer of Brunei Hall, Pg .
An 83-year-old Kuala Belait fishmonger has again won a million dollar appeal against a well known Bandar Seri Begawan business tycoon this week. The case involved an on-going tussle over a piece of land in Kuala Belait between fishmonger Kheng Ah Beng and businessman Hj Roney bin Hj Roslee who is in his 50s. The .
Calling on Bruneians to save electricity, the religious leaders brought out facts and figures to show that the people owed the government a whopping $1B in electricity bills upto last year 2009 alone. And up to March 2010, hotel owners owed $4Million dollars to the Government. Trying to make the point that what one can’t .
A huge fire engulfed a florist shop in Jalan Madewa last night that caused neighbours to be evacuated from their houses. The Fire and Rescue Department received the distress call at 8.41pm and four fire trucks from Gadong and Beribi fire stations were deployed. According to sources, almost all the 10 rooms inside the property .
Brunei Shell Petroleum hit more black gold than expected as one of its platforms reached a major milestone in its production, all within a year since it came onstream. According to BSP, the production from the Mampak platform located 30km off the shores of the Tutong District have reached over 20,000 barrels per day, exceeding .
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN AREAS in Serusop, Bunut, Subok Valley and Beribi will be upgraded as they have been designated as revitalisation locations under the Bandar Seri Begawan (BSB) Development Masterplan. The BSB master plan does not only account for the future development of the capital city but also designs for different neighbourhoods beyond the city’s .
BRUNEI-MUARA SENIOR government officers participating in the 14th Executive Development Programme were urged to keep an open mind and take an active role in the modernisation of the public service. Speaking to the participants at the closing ceremony of the programme, Deputy Minister at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), Dato Seri Paduka Hj Eusoff Agaki .
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN THE United States (US) is aiming to increase educational exchange with Brunei, said a visiting US official. Public Diplomacy Country Coordinator at the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs of the US Department of State, Rhonda Ferguson-Augustus told The Brunei Times that the department is interested in developing educational exchanges between .
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN SMALLER letters and numbers will be used on new licence plates of vehicles in Brunei effective 2011. In a press statement issued by the Land Transport Department (LTD), the department has began officially enforcing the Identification Marks Act and Regulation 2008 under Section 68 of the Road Traffic Regulations from yesterday. The .
