Friday December 05, 2008

News Archive

Abrupt cuts to fuel subsidy 'can cause hardship'

15/01/2008
Public uproar can be prevented by careful planning, gradual enforcement: BEDB acting chairman ABRUPT removal or...


Top Chinese official in Brunei

15/01/2008
HIS Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam yesterday gran-ted an audience to the State...


Lee Kuan Yew on Brunei's next level of growth

15/01/2008
HOW can a small nation, such as Brunei Darussalam, position itself in the region? And what is needed for the sultanate...


UBD signs MoU on joint programmes with Wales uni

15/01/2008
UNIVERSITI Brunei Darussalam (UBD) and University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (UWIC) yesterday signed a Memorandum of...


On the run: Chewing gum blamed for chronic diarrhoea

15/01/2008
INDIVIDUALS who chew lots of gum with sorbitol, a sugar substitute that is also a laxative, may suffer from diarrhoea...


Study: Alzheimer symptoms reversed within minutes

15/01/2008
AN EXTRAORDINARY new scientific study, which for the first time documents marked improvement in Alzheimer's disease...


Hypnosis: Fact or fiction?

15/01/2008
HYPNOSIS is a phenomenon that just about everybody is familiar with, but few people can truly claim to really know...


Queasy physician trying to heal himself

15/01/2008
CORPSES had always made me queasy, Sandeep Jauhar writes in Intern, the brutally frank chronicle of his medical...


Colombia guerrillas kidnap six local tourists

15/01/2008
COLOMBIAN guerrillas kidnapped six tourists traveling by boat on a remote river a few days after freeing two...


India and China pledge to boost trade and military ties

15/01/2008
CHINA and India pledged yesterday to strengthen trade and military links and seek a solution to a border row, as...